Common Author Freakouts, Part 6: Immediately After You Say "Yes" to a Book Deal
The initial flood of joy might disappear fast; it might never arrive at all. But nothing is wrong with you, and nothing is wrong with the choice you made.
I told you the Common Author Freakouts series was over. I lied! I forgot that I had told not one but several authors that I would devote a post to the phenomenon known1 as the Post-Book Deal Anxiety Tsunami, or “PBDAT” for short.2 So here you go! Encore!
PBDATs are common, scary, and confusing.
If one is going to happen, it’ll generally do so 1-5 days after…