{"id":1352,"date":"2021-07-27T21:21:43","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T01:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicolewillson.com\/blog\/?p=1352"},"modified":"2021-07-27T21:21:43","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T01:21:43","slug":"terricited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicolewillson.com\/blog\/terricited\/","title":{"rendered":"Terricited"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Find me next week!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One week.<\/p>\n

In one week, Tidepool<\/em> is out in the world. My debut novel. The fulfillment\u00a0of a dream I’ve had for decades. Something I always wanted to do, but something I believed\u00a0was out of reach for too long.<\/p>\n

I have the Summer Olympics on as I write this, and their COVID-related delay makes them an interesting\u00a0bookend to Tidepool’s<\/em> development. In July\u00a02016, as the Rio Olympics took place, I’d been let go from my job and used my free time to develop a novel idea I was planning to write for NaNoWriMo that November.<\/p>\n

In 2021, the Tokyo Olympics are on after a year’s delay. I’ve been let go from my job again. But that novel I was planning in 2016 is a week away from publication. Holy shit.<\/p>\n

It’s been weird but (mostly) wonderful to see reactions from early readers who are now visiting the world that’s been only inside my head until this year. However, I realized that for my own mental health, I needed to get the heck off Goodreads and stay off. A couple of lukewarm (but by no means awful) reviews sent me into a tailspin, and I realized the first really bad, mean, snarky review I get is going to render me nonfunctional for a week. I’ve done my job. I can’t control how people will receive the book, not everyone will enjoy it, and obsessing over reviews\u00a0will only mess me up.<\/p>\n

I’ve been interviewed on a couple of blogs in the last few weeks. Gwendolyn Kiste, a wonderful writer and a sweet\u00a0person, featured me on her blog<\/a>. \u00a0My fellow 2021 debut novelist Paulette Kennedy also hosted an interview with me<\/a>. \u00a0I have another interview coming on August 3 plus a feature on John Scalzi’s The Big Idea<\/a>. I’ve been reading Scalzi’s blog since the early 2000s when we were all “online journalers” and he was a nonfiction author a few years away from the start of his wildly successful fiction career. So I’m especially\u00a0thrilled to have landed a slot to talk about Tidepool<\/em> there.<\/p>\n

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