I had to call it last night...

Hi everyone!

(TW: mentions of Renee Nicole Good's murder)

I have some unfortunate news: Joyful's release has been delayed again.

You know that thing folks with ADHD have where when they get down to wire on a project being due and they go into like a turbo mode?

Yeah, I think mine's broken.

Hopefully just temporarily but still.

The last few days, when I should have been crushing things with high word counts and knocking out the rest of this book, it was like dragging my feet through thick mud. I had one good writing day (Wednesday) and that just wasn't going to cut it.

Late yesterday afternoon, I looked at what I had left and how much time I had (books have to be uploaded 72 hours ahead of when they go live so it had to be submitted to Amazon by Sunday evening) and just knew it wasn't going to happen. Not unless I cut out a chapter or two and cut back the word count on the chapters I did end up doing and basically give you a shitty, half-done book.

Not happening. We all deserve better than that. So do Rooster & Emmett.

So I pushed the release to January 29th to give myself two more weeks (after fighting with Amazon for an hour because they really don't like you moving release dates a second time) and then... well, not to be dramatic but I took to my bed to wallow in my failure for the rest of the evening.

(I think my exact words were: "I'm taking to my bed. I'm just fucking done with today. I can't finish my book in time and that piece of shit called her a fucking bitch after sh**ting her in the face and I'm fucking done.")

But now today is a new day and there will be no more wallowing in bed!

After calling my reps to demand they abolish ICE, I'll be getting back to work to make sure I give you all the best book possible.

Alright, let's do this!