I usually write about things I know or that I’m curious about. But what’s been on my mind lately is what I don’t know. My book launches one month from today. And I am consistently surprised by everything I don’t know about publishing a book. Not the mechanics as much as the experience of it. I understand intellectually the process of publishing a book; the need for social media, the shouting from the various hilltops that you wrote a thing and you need people to buy it so you can get the chance to write another thing.

What surprises me is the emotional ups and downs that have taken place between the finishing of the book and the launch of the book into the world. It’s a kind of limbo. I don’t have distance from it, and the only reason I’m writing about it is that I try to write a substack every week come hell or high water and all I can think of to write about is the hell and high water I’m in, up to my neck.

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