Earthquakes & Blobs—my first day as a published author, by Danielle Younge-Ullman

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Yesterday, it happened. My book was officially released.

It was an interesting, surreal kind of day, especially because I woke up early in order to catch a flight to San Francisco and, just my luck, I couldn't get my internet to work before I left which meant I was unable to obsessively google myself (and the book) until I got to my hotel room many hours later. And even then, I was too busy for much googling and googling is part of what convinces me this is real-that and seeing the book in the store, which I didn't get the chance to do yesterday.

So I kind of floated through the day, wondering if I looked different, if people could "tell" and swinging from intense happiness and the desire to blurt it out to everyone, to gut-gripping terror about what's going to happen-whether people will like it, what they will say and so on. (Go ahead and make the comparison to losing one's virginity-it's there for the taking and entirely apt.)

It's been a long and intense journey from years of being an actor, then being and actor who told people I "wanted to write" to actually, finally making my first attempts, to this.

When I arrived here in San Francisco I opened my email and the first thing I saw was;

"Did you feel the earthquake?"

and a little further down, in another message:

"I read your blob-looks promising."

And there you have it-the highs and lows of the first day of publication.

By the way, if you are in San Francisco, I will be signing copies of Falling Falling Under at the Literacy Autographing session at RWA today from 5:30-7:30 and doing a reading and signing tomorrow night at Books Inc in Opera Plaza. I'd love to see you there!

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