![]() I gave it to my writing group and we met about it a month later, and four days after that meeting the baby arrived. Like I said, I finished the draft a month before she was born. I blew through the book in the next nine months. It wasn’t a surprise, but what happens is suddenly the clock gets really serious. I had three good chapters that I liked in this book, and then Katie got the news that we were going to have this baby, and I was like, “Oh shit.”Ĭheek: Yes, yes. Listi: It’s not an uncommon story for somebody to work like crazy on a book, with the arrival of a child impending.Ĭheek: That’s so true. We’re still in this floating, liminal zone of our lives. We are still living with my mother-in-law, and we don’t have our own place. It’s completely different out here, and I love it. It’s been almost two years since then-she turns two in August-and I still haven’t figured it out because six months after she was born we moved out here. When you talk about my writing habits and process, that is in the past tense since I have no idea what it is now. ![]() ![]() ![]() It totally upended my life and completely changed everything.Ĭheek: Everything. ![]() in the morning while bouncing a newborn baby. I was celebrating the book news at 4 A.M. It literally was happening at the same time. I finished the book a month before she was born, and got signed with an agent a month after she was born. Chip Cheek: The book and the baby happened at the exact same time. ![]()
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