The Virus
The Virus is my first book.
This is how it came about.
It was early 2020. I was planning on publishing something soon and then Covid, this mystery virus, started on the other side of the world. I was glued to the tv all day and night and watching the infection rate charts on my phone, checking it almost every hour that week, telling all of my friends to get ready for this thing that would defiantly make it's way to the U.S. very soon. At that point it was still only in China. But I could see from watching the charts and learning about how it spreads and the infection rate that it was something they couldn't contain.
Of course no one believed me.
In early February of 2020, while Covid was spreading across Europe, I made a special trip to the grocery store to stock up on canned goods, toilet paper, water and whatever else I wanted, a whole cart full. I had never bought that much in my life. I looked for masks and got a box of those too. The cashier was real freaked out.
When covid did finally get to the U.S. a month later I had done all my shopping already and was waiting for them to shut everything down. And then everything did shut down.
I would check the infection rate charts every hour and I knew I was going crazy. I decided to start doing little art projects and get used to staying at home by myself and not visiting friends.
And then I decided it was time to get to writing again. And I thought about it for a few days, deciding this would be something for me. Something I needed to get through this pandemic. I needed an escape.
It was a hard book to write because it was my first, which is very daunting because for me I felt like I didn't even know what I was doing. I had to find my rhythm of this is how I write a book. I had to find my style and my way of doing it. I had been writing for years but not a whole, finished book before. There was the fear and anxiety of every day from Covid and also my mom was put on hospice and she passed away at the end of the year just before I could finish the book.
I made a promise to myself that I would finish the book and publish it before 2020 was over so that I could leave it there in that year. It was published just on time, in the last week of the year.
The Virus is dedicated to my mom and my family and 2020 of course.
This is how it came about.
It was early 2020. I was planning on publishing something soon and then Covid, this mystery virus, started on the other side of the world. I was glued to the tv all day and night and watching the infection rate charts on my phone, checking it almost every hour that week, telling all of my friends to get ready for this thing that would defiantly make it's way to the U.S. very soon. At that point it was still only in China. But I could see from watching the charts and learning about how it spreads and the infection rate that it was something they couldn't contain.
Of course no one believed me.
In early February of 2020, while Covid was spreading across Europe, I made a special trip to the grocery store to stock up on canned goods, toilet paper, water and whatever else I wanted, a whole cart full. I had never bought that much in my life. I looked for masks and got a box of those too. The cashier was real freaked out.
When covid did finally get to the U.S. a month later I had done all my shopping already and was waiting for them to shut everything down. And then everything did shut down.
I would check the infection rate charts every hour and I knew I was going crazy. I decided to start doing little art projects and get used to staying at home by myself and not visiting friends.
And then I decided it was time to get to writing again. And I thought about it for a few days, deciding this would be something for me. Something I needed to get through this pandemic. I needed an escape.
It was a hard book to write because it was my first, which is very daunting because for me I felt like I didn't even know what I was doing. I had to find my rhythm of this is how I write a book. I had to find my style and my way of doing it. I had been writing for years but not a whole, finished book before. There was the fear and anxiety of every day from Covid and also my mom was put on hospice and she passed away at the end of the year just before I could finish the book.
I made a promise to myself that I would finish the book and publish it before 2020 was over so that I could leave it there in that year. It was published just on time, in the last week of the year.
The Virus is dedicated to my mom and my family and 2020 of course.
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