Realizations
Today, I realized something. It may strike some of you as obvious but for me, not so much. Pretty soon, my first novel, Escape: A Zombie Chronicles Novel, is going to be in the hands of strangers. People I’ve never met. How cool is that?
I was out on the town with my best friend, Kimmy K., and I snapped this pic of her holding an advance copy of my novel. Staring at the picture now, I can say, “Wow. That’s pretty awesome.” She was proud, I was proud and then we had burgers and beer. Two friends, getting together to chat it up. Same ol,’ same ol.’ Only my book was sitting between us.
Laying back and thinking about this whole process of publishing a novel is pretty intense. Since last September, I started podcasting a story, received a 3 book deal from Permuted Press, have been downloaded over 200,000 times and most recently I’ve been grouped together with 12 other podcasters who were called the “most influential creators in the podcast fiction community,” by J.C. Hutchins.
Pretty amazing stuff.
By the fall, my novel will be in print. I’ll be attending Horror Realm in Pittsburgh, PA and strangers will come up to me and ask me to sign a copy just for them. Not bad for a guy who just one year earlier wasn’t even on the radar.
I have you guys and gals to thank for that, and I look forward to the day when I can post pictures of you all, people I’ve never met but who are near and dear to my heart, holding copies of my novel in their hands.
That, will be one of the best feelings in the world.
I realize that now.
