In the Pink by Susan McBride

Author:Susan McBride
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2012-10-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

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There are two pink lines!

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I BURIED MYSELF in my writing, so thankful that I had so many deadlines in 2011; although revising Little Black Dress during the first few months of the year wasn’t easy. One of the characters suffers a miscarriage in the story, and that hit awfully close to home. As I rewrote the book, I cried off and on, figuring it was good to let it out. My hormones were slowly coming down from the pregnancy, getting back to normal, and life was moving on.

By mid-spring, I had turned in the final version of Little Black Dress to my editor at HarperCollins and had my proposal accepted for my next women’s fiction book. That one started out being called Little White Lies but soon became The Truth About Love and Lightning. Because of crazy scheduling, I had to put Love and Lightning on the back burner for a bit and start work on a young adult thriller for Delacorte. It was a nice change of pace, and I had fun slipping into mystery author mode again. By July, I had a rough draft of the thriller done and I’d begun Love and Lightning, which focuses on a mother who can’t tell anything but the brutal truth and a daughter who can’t help but lie.

The novel also involves an unexpected late-in-life pregnancy, perhaps some wishful thinking on my part. It was good for my psyche to create a character who gets to have something I so recently lost.

While I toiled on Love and Lightning, I also got busy promoting the release of Little Black Dress in late August of 2011. It was incredibly easy to talk up that tale with readers, as it was truly a book of my heart. I had a handful of local gigs lined up for St. Louis, including a fund-raiser at Saks Fifth Avenue with the St. Louis affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, for which I’d done several events since my breast cancer treatment. I love combining “books and boobs” whenever it works out. Additionally, my publisher sent me on the road, speaking and signing books at several trade shows in September.

And I found myself agreeing to put on a second Wine, Wit & Lit fund-raiser for Casting for Recovery in late October. That would be my last event of the fall so I could hunker down to finish Love and Lightning.

I was feeling good about my health and positive about the direction of my career and the books I was writing. I even mentioned to Ed that I wanted to do more fund-raising and volunteering as I needed “something more” in my life that felt equally fulfilling.

In the meantime, my forty-seventh birthday rolled around in mid-October, and we celebrated by going out to lunch with family and then heading to Pumpkin Land to shoot the corn cannons, wander through the corn maze, and pick out Halloween pumpkins. I had a huge berry margarita at the Mexican restaurant that afternoon, although it tasted really weak.

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