Who wrote a book?

I did! With Eden! Hey everyone, Eden and I finished our book!

I could have sworn I wrote about this when it happened, but I see that in fact I did not. How could I have let this slip past unmentioned? That was insane of me.

The book was due March 1st, and we emailed the entire honking manuscript sometimes in the wee hours of the morning that day. The last few weeks of work were much less painful than I had been led to believe they would be, I have to say. I was told to expect not showering and not eating and wearing my pajamas inside-out and possibly some stress-induced migraines, maybe some spontaneous fear-vomiting. I was sure we were doing it wrong, because I wasn't crying or soiling myself.

On the other hand, the relative ease of our last week or so was probably because we had been working for quite a while with a deadline of February 1st. It was only in January that we were told we had another month. So that's my tip to you writers: fool yourself into thinking you have less time. Ask your editor to lie to you, then forget that she's lying, somehow--I'm sure there's a medication that can help you get all forgetsy--then scramble around in a blind, weepy panic, only to find out a couple of weeks before the faux deadline that you really have oodles more time!

I have another tip for you: start a website called "Forgetsy." I don't know what it would be. That's up to you to figure out.

Comments

[Boston Mamas]

Congrats! That is phenomenal. Treat yourself to something fabulous this weekend to celebrate. xo Christine

[Megsie]

Congratulations Alice! That is so exciting!

[Sus]

That is awesome! Congratulations. I can't wait to read it.

[Anna]

Forgetsy, isn't that the store for indie happy pills, brought to you by the creative mom-next-door?

[RCBM]

Forgetsy -- is that a little bit like the truthiness advocated by Colbert?! Love it!

[Angella]

Excited for you both! Can wait to see the finished copy.

[Melody]

People would probably assume "Forgetsy" had something to do with Etsy.com. Kind of like "Regretsy", which is kind of awesome.

[Emily]

Congratulations! That's awesome! And I love Anna's comment about Forgetsy...LOL

[Suzy]

Forgetsy = Faked Etsy items.

[Quickwittedandwitty.blogspot.c]

Woohoo! Congratulations - on the book AND for showering regularly!

[Mimi]

Congratulations!

[Clark Kent's Lunchbox]

"Forgetsy" Like your top 20 posts? =) (sorry, couldn't resist)

Allow me to echo congrats to you and Eden.

[Sadie at heyMamas]

Wow, congrats!! What an accomplishment.

Sadie at heyMamas

[Holly]

I think this calls for a cheer:

Who rocks the house?!?!

[Katie]

Awesome!

[Megan]

Huzzah!

[Sheila]

Brava! Wine all around!

[Sarah]

Congratulations on finishing. Ah, faux deadlines are the best!

[Alison]

Hooray!!! Can't wait to read it, and set it for book club (that'll be at least 3 people out of the 15 illiterate attendees who may actually buy it - you''ll be rich!!!) - oh, and Eden happens to be in the book club too and she'll probably have her own copy, so that only leaves two people, but it's a start!!

In all seriousness I know you're going to kick arse and Eden's going to stop returning my calls.

[Elsa]

Congratulations!

I have to admit, the idea of emailing the manuscript just floors me.

And now I realize that my childhood dreams of authorship were already woven through with imagined stress over missed deadlines, misdirected mail, and lost manuscript envelopes. Wow. What a messed-up little kid I must have been.

... wha? Oh, yes: Congratulations to you and Mrs. Kennedy! Can't wait to see the book itself!

[Meredith]

well, as *my* henry would say: yay! yay! yay! i concur. yay!

[Alexandra]

Alice, I look so forward to reading your book. You are my favorite blogger, and to have a whole book of your Alice-ness, well, what can get better than that?

Congratulations! And treat yourself to something spectacular, and let us know what it is!

[bambooska]

Congratulations. :)Mission accomplished. I would be so thrilled to finish a book of my own. Wow. ><

[mom101]

whoohoo!!

It makes me want to suck your preggo.

heh.

[Shannon]

Yay! Congratulations! This is so cool....