After a lot of typing and reading and Starbucks hot chocolates and time, I have finally achieved one of those life goal things.  As of this moment you can go to Amazon or Barnes and Noble to get my book for Kindle or Nook (or their apps on your phone).

Caleb is out of college, at a job he hates (but is good at) and can’t figure out how to get the one he wants.

Fellow mall worker Leah should be a blonde ray of sunshine, but she is overshadowed when teenage crush Sophie unexpectedly returns to complicate Caleb’s already neurotic dating life.

From different places and going different places, they each have decisions and secrets, and have to confront the battle between the urge to dream and the safety of settling.

I started poking at this story in 2010, but didn’t get far before I set it aside.  Then on a Friday in late January 2011 the subject of books came up in a Gchat session with my friend Alex.

Clearly what we needed was some kind of boost to get our projects going.  So we agreed to do just that [Note: I had just watched The Godfather for the first time].

About a year later I was done with the first draft, which set off rounds of editing and revamping and hating large parts of the story and loving small ones.  I worked for a while to go the conventional publishing route but didn’t get far, and after shelving it again for a bit decided it was the 21st century and I had the easy access to just do it myself.

And here we are.  At the touch of a button anyone in large areas of the world can read a story I wrote, and while I will be nowhere in the Pulitzer conversation, that’s still pretty cool.