- You check hourly on how your book is doing since launching it a week ago on Amazon.
- You swear and throw things when you realize the manuscript file you loaded was the “test” one and not the final proofread copy.
- You obsessively scan the “right” book before hitting upload, terrified you may have missed something, or are accidentally uploading your mom’s favourite chocolate chip cookie recipe instead (hey, there’s a good blog post topic…actually, you think you have chocolate chips in the cupboard. You have time to whip up a batch!)
- You mix the cookie dough, then realize there are no chocolate chips (you ate them while checking on how your book was doing yesterday.)
- You eat the dough raw — because!
- You wonder how you ever got a book written in the first place.
- You congratulate yourself on actually writing a book, and forgive yourself for the upload error, ‘cos who’s actually gonna buy it and read it anyway?
- You spend the rest of the day looking up symptoms of food poisoning from raw cookie batter and promise yourself to fix the upload issue tomorrow.
