Even posted about it on social media to hold myself accountable. So I tried setting an arbitrary “start-the-book” date. It sounds melodramatic, but I felt as blank as the new word doc I’d forced myself to create. And reading through my notes and idea journals was overwhelming. I told myself, “It’s good to be busy and lose myself in an imaginary world.”īut opening my laptop still felt exhausting.Īll my usual go to’s (music, art, books) tended to upset me. And the absolute last thing I felt like doing was writing. I owed my editor-and my readers-the next book in the Keeper series. And the chaos of finding new rhythms and routines to juggle all of my new responsibilities.īut through all of that there was a much bigger “this” looming over me-the worry that kept me up at night, staring at the dark ceiling. Then coming home to a house that was now half empty-and one hundred percent in disarray. The first “this” was the fifteen-city, almost entirely sold-out book tour I had to leave for a few hours later. Second-and more importantly: I remember thinking, “I need to survive this.” Which became the theme of my year. One: I finally understood why “you’d better sit down for this” is a cliché. And I only really remember two things about that conversation. I was zipping up my suitcase a little before midnight when my (now ex) husband came into the room to talk. I found out I was getting divorced November 5, 2018-the night before FLASHBACK (the seventh book in my Keeper of the Lost Cities series) released.
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