Accidental Attachment by Max Monroe

Author:Max Monroe [Monroe, Max]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: novel
Publisher: Max Monroe LLC
Published: 2023-04-29T16:00:00+00:00

Saturday, May 20th

Chase

The sun has barely risen, and I’m already up and a full hour into my day.

Coffee singes at the sensitive skin of my top lip as I take a sip from what I’ve now claimed as “my mug”—it’s got little black dashes on its white surface and a handle that perfectly fits my four fingers.

Yesterday, we spent most of our time exploring the city, and this morning, Brooke will be making a television appearance on Good Morning, Chicago to talk about all things Shadow Brothers.

While she’s busy getting ready, and since we’ll hit the road shortly after she finishes her TV interview, I decide to fit in a little work. Briefly, I check for any Longstrand emails on my phone, and when nothing urgent appears, I slide into the motor home’s kitchenette booth to resume my notes on Accidental Attachment.

The margins of Brooke’s book baby are filled with ideas, suggestions, and scribbles. Someone who isn’t familiar with the way I work might think this means there are a million changes to make and burn the manuscript right then.

I’ll have to be careful to remind her of this before she gets a wild hair.

But for me, the more notes I make, the better the book is. With books I don’t like, I find I have next to nothing to say.

When I love something…I’m the kind of editor who gets so enthralled, so attached, I can’t help but comment on both the good and the bad. And not just “more of this” and “less of that” but with the ways each joke made me spit all over my shirt or take off at a dead run with anxiousness. I want the creator of the work to know when I can’t breathe because of the tightness in my chest or when a character hits so close to home, I wish I could pick up my phone to call them.

I know the level of work that Brooke and all other authors pour into their manuscripts, and they deserve to have confirmation when their time and effort pay off. Sometimes, they need an editor’s reinforcement to be spoken, and I’m more than willing to speak it.

I set my mug down onto the table carefully, pick up my copy of the manuscript, and start to read a chapter about the first time River takes Clive to her apartment. It’s in her point of view, and I’ve read it several times, but it never fails to bring a smile to my face.

I slide my key into the keyhole of my apartment door, but before I engage the lock, I stop and turn to Clive.

“Okay, before I let you in, there’re a few things you should know.”

“Oh, really?” He tilts his head to the side, but his eyes never leave mine. “Like what? Is your apartment door actually a door to Narnia? Or is your apartment just really, really dirty like that episode of Friends where Ross is dating that woman who has a rat in her bag of chips? I need some direction on whether I should focus on wonderment or excrement.

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