I will be the first to admit that I love my online life. It has provided other worlds the ability to see into their counterparts. It bridges gaps in education, knowledge and spreads messages faster than any other medium in the world. I am amazed by the technology that continues to grow and change, and I fully embrace it. In fact, I am probably, in some ways, more a part of that world than I am the physical world – I work in that world, I communicate in that world, and I create in that world.

I am so grateful for it – I am able to immediately publish a novel online that readers can download the day after I’ve uploaded it. I can make a trailer to an adventure I had, and have it online a few minutes after I push “submit” on Youtube. See below for my adventure in the Catskills with my girlfriends during Hurricane Irene (oh, and trust me, it was an adventure!):

But, after 2 and a half years of working on something, there is nothing like the gratification that comes with holding a physical, tangible object. I could even see it in Jock’s face when my novel came in the mail – it was like, this is actually real.

I didn’t just spend 30 months on something to have it land in the abyss that is the internet. No, I spent that time so that it could be taken on a vacation with someone and their family, so that it could be borrowed to a friend, so that it could curl up with you in bed, so that your tears would fall on a page and make an actual stain! I want it to hang out on your bookshelf, or your coffee table and come up in conversation.

Is that the ego? Maybe it is, but nothing, and I mean nothing beats holding my own book in my hands. Sure, it won’t be ready for you to buy for a few more weeks, and time is precious, but I am glad the ebook is there to fill that gap in the meantime.

Can’t wait to send you a signed copy! Stay tuned for ways you can get a discounted, pre-ordered copy! Pardon me while I plug a bit more below.

Check out my interview with The Next Web here.

If you’d like to purchase my ebook, it’s here for $2.99!

Eight hours in Vegas.
A promise to meet in Chicago.
Four months apart while he traverses through the depths of Africa and she “aspires” through the haze of Hollywood.
Three questions each letter.
Their intense connection is clear, but fate is only as strong as timing allows it to be. She has a life-long passion that is finally turning into a career. He has landed enough British pounds to travel the world for the first time in his life.
Will their honest answers be enough to bring them back together?