Every Deep Desire was Born . . . and Now It’s Time to Let Go

Sharon Wray talks about letting go of your book baby on the Sisterhood of Suspense #blog. Stop by for a visit, we’d love to hear from you 🙂

Word by Word

It’s been almost a week since EVERY DEEP DESIREentered the world, and I’m back at work revising book 2 in the Deadly Force series, ONE DARK WISH and writing book 3. And I’m exhausted. The kind of exhaustion that comes after having a baby or moving to another country (both of which I’ve done). It’s not just a lack of sleep kind of tired, but an emotional withdrawal. After so many wonderful notes, emails, tweets, etc., I feel this intense need to crawl into bed and hide under the covers.

I wrote for a long time (14 years) before seeing my book on a bookshelf in a store, and I thought I understood all that would mean. But I’ve realized in the last week that the writing and getting published–while hard–isn’t the hardest part. The hardest part is letting go.