It’s Out There. Almost Yours Again Is Actually Out There.

Tonight I uploaded Almost Yours Again to Amazon, and now I’m sitting here staring at the listing like I’m waiting for it to do something.

It won’t do anything. It’s a book listing. But here I am.

This one has been living in my head for a long time — longer than I’ll admit to — and now it belongs to anyone who wants it, which is the most exhilarating and quietly terrifying thing a writer can experience. You spend all this time with these people. You know how they think, how they argue, how they sound at two in the morning when everything is falling apart. And then you hand them over, and they’re not just yours anymore.

I think that’s the right thing. I’m about ninety percent sure that’s the right thing.

Here’s what I can tell you: this book is the beginning of something much bigger. The universe these characters live in has been mapped out to forty books. Forty. That number sounds absurd when I type it, but every single one of those stories exists for a reason — because the people in this world are complicated and layered and they don’t let go of you once you find them. Marc and Finn and the rest of the Compass Point crew have a lot of road still ahead of them.

The first ten books are written and edited and ready. One a month for the next ten months. Whether that plan makes me dedicated or slightly unhinged is genuinely up for debate, and I’m choosing not to examine it too closely right now.

Right now I just want to sit with the fact that Almost Yours Again is real. It’s listed. Someone out there who needs this story can find it.

That’s not nothing.

That’s actually everything.

If you pick it up — thank you. If you love it, tell someone. If you want to know what comes next, stay close. There is so much more coming.