SHE’S HERE!!!

Reese Hawking is HERE! I really did it. I published a whole book. Last Thursday I came home from work super late. My husband had carried 3 boxes into my office. I knew what was inside (I had been tracking the packages for DAYS). Before I got out of my work clothes or took a shower, I sat in the middle of the floor and carefully cut the tape off of the first box. And there she was. My first published novel. The words I had written and edited and edited and written 20 times over. I held the book in my hands and cried like a baby. Like real sobbing and tears and snot. The sense of accomplishment mixed with pride and fear and disbelief to create this crazy combination of emotions like nothing I had ever experiences. It was like a dream and a relief all wrapped into one. I jumped off that cliff and put myself out there. I don’t know what will happen next and that’s okay. What matters is that I faced my fear. I presented my work to the world. What y’all do with it from here is up to you. My job is done…or is it just starting??