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I'm an author!

It is official! My ebook is now available on Amazon!!! Check out my author page:  https://www.amazon.com/author/alysonoverall I have a lot of different feelings about this. Of course I am excited. So, so excited. But I also feel nervous and scared that people won't like it. I feel anxious to receive negative feedback. It's like I'm naked in front of a huge crowd.. I'm openly sharing a project I've put a LOT of time and effort into. I didn't quite expect this vulnerability and self-consciousness. I think I'm self-conscious because part of me feels I should have made it longer so it could officially be considered a novel. I should have submitted to literary agents and publishers in attempt to get this all done professionally. But I opted to self-publish. And I left it as a novella. I said all that I wanted to say... there's no way I could have doubled my word count. I chose to self-publish for a few reasons. First, I knew that my odds were EXTREME...
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Here is a screenshot of my amazing book cover, designed by Krystal Reese.  About 3 or 4 years ago, I was listening to the song "Blue Ocean Floor" by Justin Timberlake. It is a very long, very beautiful song.  It wasn't quite clear to me what exactly the song was about, but I knew that it made me feel sad. I enjoyed listening to the song over and over, while singing along to it. As I was listening to it one evening on my way to work, I began to create a story in my head.  I imagined a woman who had lost the love of her life, and wanted nothing more than to be with him again.  I imagined her sinking to the ocean floor to be with him, and wondered what that meant. I imagined her lost in an ocean of dreams, and came up with the idea of someone becoming addicted to sleep, or more specifically, to dreaming, in order to live the life that she wanted to.  I also was inspired by the movie "Inception." You know, it's  that movie where someone could get lost in a...
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