The preorder is here!
The paperback will also be available the same day, no worries, I just don’t have the ability to set up preorders for physical books on Amazon.
But let me be clear: if you signed up for an eARC, you WILL get it. I noticed amongst the very funny and sweet messages Readers sent when they signed up, a few asked to be “picked,” and I realized that I wasn’t totally clear, so let me be here: I’m not picking and choosing from the people who provided me emails, you’re just straight up on the list, and the link will go out to you when I finally get the dang thing ready which should have already happened, but eARCs are coming, planned for this Monday 8/28 at the latest!
But you guys, the last week has been A LOT. TLDR: some stressful, personal stuff happened in the last week that pushed me off schedule right at the point where I had probably two day’s worth of work left. The new stress isn’t over, but as of today, it’s mostly sorted, and I’m getting back on schedule.
Here’s the long version: Husband and I have lived in 13 places in 14 years. Sometimes we stayed in one place for multiple years, sometimes six months, and there were two places we spent one month each, but needless to say, we’ve been VERY transient. It felt normal at first, and then it became a hassle that we learned to live with because we’ve had extremely bad luck with trees falling on houses, shitty landlords, and the veiled good luck of moving for better jobs that may have been more stress than they were worth. In the end, we’re privileged to be able to move around seemingly on a whim, and we’ve had a lot of good luck squished in there too, but we’re so tired of moving boxes and impermanent places and empty bedrooms filled with the stuff I should have thrown away three apartments ago because what’s the point of pink, llama-shaped succulent planted (succullama) if she spends her life wrapped in paper stuffed in a box and then just ends up cracked in the end?
So we decided to build a house. In this market? We thought it was a good idea, guys, really, and at first it really way. The intention was we would live in that house for essentially the rest of our lives, so it was worth investing in and doing right. We started the process back in January/February of this year including the purchase of a piece of land in June, and then in the last week, everything fell apart. Thankfully, we didn’t really start developing the land or building yet, but it became clear this was not the route to go last Wednesday and it was honestly devastating.
I have an intense amount of anxiety just in general, and I’ve come close to being totally broken on a few occasions. This was not one of those occasions because I’ve learned how to mitigate that; however, it did require 90% of my attention and the last 10% was occupied by worry. All I can do is binge eat, sleep really poorly, and search for a new place to live. I haven’t even picked up a book in days because my brain will not let me! And that’s extra insulting because a really good story would be so soothing right now, but I can’t concentrate enough to read.
Anyway, Husband and I spent some time licking our wounds, counting our losses, and cobbling together a new plan. All the knots aren’t untied yet, but we’re getting there, and my brain has cleared up enough to write this post as well as finalize Bound to Fall’s manuscript. So, preorder is up, and the formatting clean up will be finished over the weekend, and then hopefully it will be in your hands!
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