not coal mining

report from the first days after publishing a novel

Hello friend,

I write to you, alive, two weeks into Book Launch Month.

I got asked a bunch, especially when people saw me on pub day, how it felt.

At some point, drink in hand in a Cobble Hill backyard patio after my launch reading, I said truthfully that the lead up felt rather like anticipating all one’s nudes being mass-emailed to thousands of people…