Dear Diary,
So, I gave birth today. I finally finished publishing, promoting, and plotting the next book for my romance book pen name, and it feels a bit like what I’m told giving birth feels like: a lot of discomfort, yes, but also a deep sense of exhausted accomplishment when its all said and done. And, of course, a strong natural bond with the end result.
No matter how many eBooks, paperbacks, and audiobooks I publish (and spread across three different author names, I’ve published quite a few) I always have a strange feeling of melancholy afterward. It’s a challenging thing to put into words, but it’s also a genuine phenomenon to me. The mathematical formula would probably look something like this: one-third relief for finally finishing a long and arduous project that took far longer than I intended, one third a strange sense of loss akin to losing a close friend or pet, and one third…emptiness. If that makes any sense, you are truly an #Alexalien.
I love what I do.
And, apparently, I’m not the only one.
A close friend of mine (someone I helped usher into the erotica business) published his fourth erotica story today, a book revolving around a character named Lexi – and upon being informed of this, I immediately went to Amazon and purchased a copy. I’m a huge fan of Lexi, and of the chronological storylines he creates with her.
Give the books a try. You won’t regret it!
To make my day even sweeter, my brother gave me Skynet (my drone) back! I immediately started piloting it around the house and spent over an hour learning how to properly pilot it, and I imagined I looked a bit like Michael Jordan back in the day getting ready for a slam dunk: tongue hanging out, eyes darting everywhere, muscles bunched, and a Zen-like focus matched with a bizarre intensity that would probably be a bit scary to an outside observer.
All in all, it was a good, simple, productive day.
The best kind. Hands down.
#Alexa
“The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights ought to be fully recognized.”
– Leland Stanford
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