It’s Gonna Be a BESTSELLER!
People not in the know think producing a bestseller is as simple as coming up with a cool idea. That’s it. And plenty of people will think they have it. They’re the one person in the world – the only person in a population in excess of 8 billion – who’s stumbled upon THAT ONE IDEA that is going to trump everything else. In the time I’ve worked in the hybrid publishing space, it’s the number one thing I hear. An author will come in and say, “I’ve written a book – it’s going to be a bestseller.” Or, “I’m going to write a book – it’s going to be…
Contemporaneous: Chapters’ 8 – 12.
8. I wake too early like I ‘ve done every day since I was on antidepressants for five years over twenty years ago, and they fucked with my sleep, and even now, even with them clean from my system, the side-effects they introduce remain. Grabbing my phone from the bedside drawer where my clock radio sits, I check it, tensing as I expect some Lana diatribe. Sometimes she does that, sending me an essay detailing why I’ve behaved so poorly, a guided tour into my inadequacies that immerses me in guilt that overwhelms any equilibrium I have, until all that remains is the doubt that maybe, just maybe, I…