{"id":829,"date":"2016-10-27T16:54:43","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T16:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patriciabaileyauthor.com\/?p=829"},"modified":"2021-07-03T05:07:56","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T05:07:56","slug":"surreal-moments-in-a-debut-authors-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patriciabaileyauthor.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/27\/surreal-moments-in-a-debut-authors-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Surreal Moments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_830\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-830\" style=\"width: 352px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-830\" src=\"http:\/\/patriciabaileyauthor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Basset-Hound-Emotion_motion_4895522092-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/c\/cd\/Emotion_motion_%284895522092%29.jpg\" width=\"352\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patriciabaileyauthor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Basset-Hound-Emotion_motion_4895522092-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/patriciabaileyauthor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Basset-Hound-Emotion_motion_4895522092-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/patriciabaileyauthor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Basset-Hound-Emotion_motion_4895522092-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/patriciabaileyauthor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Basset-Hound-Emotion_motion_4895522092.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 352px) 100vw, 352px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-830\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">By Jelly Dude (Emotion motion) [CC BY 2.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>There are a lot of firsts when you are a debut author. First call from an agent. First chat with an editor. First time your name and picture appear in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/pw\/by-topic\/childrens\/childrens-book-news\/article\/69737-rights-report-week-of-march-21-2016.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Publisher&#8217;s Weekly<\/a>. First time you see a cover sketch for you book. First time you see your name on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/29742894-the-tragically-true-adventures-of-kit-donovan?from_search=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Goodreads <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Tragically-True-Adventures-Kit-Donovan\/dp\/0807581437\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1477586968&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=The+Tragically+True+Adventures+of+Kit+Donovan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/book\/the-tragically-true-adventures-of-kit-donovan-9780807581438\/61-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Powells<\/a>. And all of it is heart-racing, jaw-dropping amazing. And terrifying. And unreal.<\/p>\n<p>Still, you&#8217;re expected to be a professional. To hold up your end of the deal. Your part of the conversation or presentation or panel discussion.\u00a0 To simply do the work. So that&#8217;s what you do, and you do it all perfectly normally and appropriately. Or at least you seem to. Because inside &#8211; another part of you &#8211; a much more real part of you &#8211; is jumping up and down, screeching and poking you in the ribs. &#8220;Can you believe this?!&#8221; this part is screaming. &#8220;Are you paying attention?!&#8221; &#8220;Is this really freaking happening?!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I had one such experience at a conference I was at recently. A part of me was chatting and talking and nodding along &#8211; making perfect sense, while the rest of me was floating above the room trying to take a mental picture of what was happening so I could treasure it forever. Which is why I&#8217;ve decided to start recording these events here on my blog, in a little series I&#8217;m going to call Surreal Moments in a Debut Author&#8217;s Life. That way all those little &#8220;Oh my God this is really happening&#8221; moments can have a place to express themselves and their excitement as inappropriately and unprofessionally as they want.<\/p>\n<p>Because, let&#8217;s face it, I&#8217;ve never been terribly cool &#8211; and I really don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s suddenly going to change now.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-509\" src=\"http:\/\/patriciabaileyauthor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/100foriconCROPPEDGirlwithdog33637688_l.jpg\" alt=\"patriciabaileyauthor.com\" width=\"100\" height=\"68\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-315\" src=\"http:\/\/patriciabaileyauthor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/TrishSignatureblue.png\" alt=\"TrishSignatureblue\" width=\"75\" height=\"49\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 52px; left: 20px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a lot of firsts when you are a debut author. 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