Preemptive Retaliation

I hope I get less excited about things soon. I fear I’m becoming insufferable. 

So the shop being live and running is quite good, and it seems like almost half my stock has already been either bought or reserved. You know, it was quite awesome to hold a copy of my book – MY book – in my hands, but it’s also really nice to know that other people want to hold it in their hands as well. I feel quite grateful for it all, and humbled, but also embarrassed? When I wrote this thing I was putting little pieces of myself in there. Little shards of me to act like mirrors, and to show how things I feel might be what other people feel too. And eventually I got the idea that no one was going to read this thing, and it would just disappear, so I put more of me in there. A lot of me in there.

And now people are talking to me about the story. They’re asking about the characters. Is this one you? they ask. And yes, it is me, but also it’s not me because this one is me, and that one is me. Who’s that one? they ask. Is that such and such or so and so? and I get bashful because it is such and such, with a pinch of so and so, but it’s also me, and it’s also other people, and it’s also the person who’s asking the question, and it’s no one, and being a writer is hard?

So, yeah, people keep talking to me about it, which is thrilling and humbling at the same time. I get all red in the face and giggle like a kid. I’m still all so excited about it all. Very much excited, and quite happy with it all.

Anyway, that was a roundabout detour to reveal the soundtrack to the book. I’ve had this for a while but I’ve only just fine-tuned it. So here we go; the music of Things Keep Happening.

Here’s the Youtube playlist.

Here’s the Spotify one

Song I’m listening to right now: Drive with your eyes closed – A Band Called Quinn

Book I’m reading: Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino