It really is. Truly. I spend three years of my life writing, revising, crossing out, deleting, adding, cutting, changing, revising, revising again. Then I hand it out to my beta readers.

And wait.

And wait some more.

Then I get an email from one of them expressing their thought on my story, my dear baby. I don't open the email because I'm too scared. I wait a couple days. Then I open it. The person likes it. He actually likes my story.

Other beta readers chime in over the next week or two, and they like it, although they do offer suggestions, ask questions, and I make appropriate changes to the manuscript.

More revising.

Then I upload it to Amazon's Kindle Store.

And I wait.

And wait.

A sale! Someone out there in readership land actually bought my book, the one I spent three years writing. Yay!

Then I wait some more. I initiate a four day free book promo in KDP Select. Over those four days, more than 260 of my books go out over the internet for free--not just in the United States, but the United Kingdom, Canada, Denmark, and France.

After the promo, a couple more sales.

And more waiting.

In between the waiting times I'm busy searching for appropriate book reviewers and blogs, looking for someone who will read my book and review it. Someone! A blogger agrees, he reads my book, gives it a great review. Yay!

Waiting for more bloggers, some have agreed to review it, just waiting for them to get to it. They will, they'll post their reviews, and I'll be scared again to click on the website to read it. But I will open the website, and I'll read the review, and I'll go on from there.

As I said, this writing thing is absolutely nuts.