Waiting for Book

Last year, I published my first novel.  

The process is a long and grueling one and involves days, months, or years of writing.

 Then there is an editing phase, and a proofreading phase.  One goes through the design phase and then the production phase, until your book has been put together, but you have not yet actually seen it.

Then you hear that it is in the mail.  There is the waiting.  Last year, I waited and waited.   In a way, it is not unlike waiting for the "baby to be born".     The gestation period ends and you want to "meet this book" to which you have given birth.

Last year, on the "delivery day",  book baby was actually delivered to the wrong house!  That was rather traumatic!

Quite a number of the readers of In Its Time felt like the book needed a sequel.  At the time it was published, that thought had never crossed my mind.  But I did take it as a challenge.   And the more I thought about it,  the more I wanted to know what happened to my characters, those familiar folks to whom I had given life.  The only way to find out what happened to them was to write it.  And so I did.

Again, I am waiting for the book to be delivered.   That is supposed to happen tomorrow.  And if all goes well, hopefully it will be delivered to my house!

I know what the contents of the book are;  I know what the book looks like, but I have never actually seen it.  I can't wait!

The delivery day will soon arrive, and a new book baby will be born!