Nine months till my book comes out – enough time to gestate a baby


Hello Reader, My partner, Fred, told me last night that I’m insufferable. ‘If you’re this hectic nine months before your book comes out, you’re going to be completely unplayable by April.’ I guess I am. I alternately dread and long for it. I want my book out there, I do. I felt nothing but joy when Jonathan Ball Publishers signed me in June. But then I woke in the middle of the night, sweating… This week under the water Putting your work out in the world can be agony. I know, I know, I’m...