PRE-TOUR MUSING / CONFESSION

I'm leaving for the airport in a bit. One week of book-touring in California! Wahoo! I packed last night. On Becca Fitzpatrick's advice, I crammed everything into my carry-on (losing my luggage before a school visit would be the ultimate nightmare).

Here are the top three things I am excited about:
1) Meeting excited and potential readers.
2) Spending time with Becca F. and Moira Young.
3) Sleeping in hotels. I looooooooove hotels.

Here are the top three things I am nervous about:
1) No one liking me.
2) Not getting enough sleep.
3) Feeling out of my league.

Is that okay to admit (I'm talking #s 1 and 3)? Sometimes I feel like all the other authors I know - even the other debut novelists, like me! - are SO composed and gregarious and self-assured, and I'm like THE ONLY ONE who is nervous and bumbling. Is this just a "projection" of my fears? Probably. But true all the same.

NEWAYZ, before I go, I just want to call your attention to this interview I did with Alma Katsu, author of THE TAKER. I try to be honest and candid in all my interviews, but I feel like I really opened up in this one:

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See you on the flip side!
xo-E

ps: I *may* have scheduled an exciting author interview to go live early tomorrow morning, and it *may* be with one of the amazing authors who blurbed my book. Hint hint.