Oh man. Did not expect that level of feels. I was all like, sure I guess people like unboxing videos. I'll make one for hashtag marketing. Then I opened the damn thing and lost all my words and got kind of molten on the insides.

Eight years, four books, one messy kitchen. 💙📚

If other authors want to weigh in with their pre-publication purgatory stories I'd love to hear them. a bit of camaraderie in this trying time would be lovely.

"Write what you know" means the platonic ideal of a writer — a young man alone in a tiny apartment with a typewriter whose only friends are coffee and cigarettes — is a myth. To write well you need to experience life and meet people.

Arson is out Nov 4.

#booksky