Release (rerelease) coming August 24Th!
If you’ve gone onto Amazon over the past month to grab a copy of Beau Tyed…and couldn’t find it…it’s because it’s currently unpublished.
And coming August 24th, it will be re-released into the wild!
“Why the unpublish and republish?” you might ask.
Well, I will tell you.
To do that, I need to go back a bit first.
In the latter half of the 2010s, I was struggling with some mental health issues.
After a lot of research - I was fairly certain that my struggles were due to ADHD (after all, my daughter had been diagnosed when she was 10).
My every day was like the books by Laura Numeroff — ‘If You Give a Mouse a Cookie,’ ‘If You Give a Moose a Muffin,’ and others. Making my first cup of coffee was diving into the dishwasher to get my mug, but that would remind me that I had laundry in the washer from yesterday, so I’d head to the laundry room. But there were clothes in the dryer. I like to fold & hang directly from the dryer, however there were no hangers, so I’d go upstairs to get hangers. I’d get to my bedroom and see that the bed was unmade, and would decide to make that. FINALLY, half an hour or more later, I’d remember that I was trying to pour coffee!
And that was just the start of my every day.
The lack of focus, the sometimes hyper-focus (to the point of forgetting about the world around me and to do things like eat), the procrastination - especially with larger tasks that required multiple steps, the impulsivity, the spinning/buffering, the most problematic symptoms.
The most devastating 'side effect' of ADHD is my impulsivity and lack of filter... It's cost me many friendships over the years.
But I guess it's like 'they' say... I might not be everyone's cup of tea, but I'm someone's shot of whiskey.
So anyway, I sought out a doctor for ADHD in 2018, and we started working together.
She decided to treat me for depression and anxiety disorder…which I didn’t feel was what I was dealing with. Not really. She was treating a symptom of ADHD - I was depressed and anxious because I couldn’t get things finished!! (and the friends I was 'too much' for.)
A few months after we’d started working, some things were going on in her life, and she pulled out of private practice to work entirely in a special ward for in-patient care at the local hospital.
So I was left without a doctor…
I kept putting off the search for a new doctor (there’s that procrastination - oh, the irony!). Come April 2019 - I finally got around to trying to find a new doctor.
In mid-May, I had my first appointment with the new one and she went straight to depression and anxiety as well! Grrrr.
And I get it. It’s easier to treat those disorders b/c the meds are not “Schedule 1” meds. But seriously… I went along with her - and it was not good. The meds she chose were bad (I won’t go into why - just know they were not good for me!). So, the next month she put me on a different med and that was WORSE.
Now - let me start to put these pieces together for you. I started writing Beau Tyed in February 2019… And finished writing it in late June. With ARCs having gone out in early July for an August 6th release.
I started writing Beau Tyed while super distracted. I finished writing Beau Tyed while on meds that fucked with my head.
On release day, things were so bad that I didn’t even get out of bed. Didn’t go on social media. I did cry a lot - for no good reason.
So - I “fired” that doctor, as you might imagine.
Fast forward to November 2020, I finally had a brilliant idea! Why not talk to the doctor that worked with my daughter and HER ADHD. We set up a Zoom Appt and I told her all I’d gone through and she said to me: “I could have told you that you were ADHD 8 years ago.”
OMG - Anyway - So, then started the meds for that…
WOW - been able to study so much better and think so much more. Now…it’s not perfect, but it’s SO much better.
Hell, I was finally able to finish writing the very complicated Choose Your Own Romance - Penelope's Paths.
All of this to say is that I was looking through Beau Tyed one day to grab a quote for something and saw some things that made me cringe! Reflecting back, I realize I had made some bad decisions here and there, cut some corners with the editing process, and so on. So, I unpublished and have been going through it - fixing sentences, improving things here and there, completely reworking some scenes…
AND - I will be re-releasing it on AUGUST 24th.
If you would like a copy of the new and improved Beau Tyed, you can sign up with Enticing Journeys PR... Here's the link:
https://forms.gle/6gNasRgDuTLDLqZf6
And if you're struggling with your own mental health issues - DON'T GIVE UP! Keep at it! There's help to be had. 💗
And coming August 24th, it will be re-released into the wild!
“Why the unpublish and republish?” you might ask.
Well, I will tell you.
To do that, I need to go back a bit first.
In the latter half of the 2010s, I was struggling with some mental health issues.
After a lot of research - I was fairly certain that my struggles were due to ADHD (after all, my daughter had been diagnosed when she was 10).
My every day was like the books by Laura Numeroff — ‘If You Give a Mouse a Cookie,’ ‘If You Give a Moose a Muffin,’ and others. Making my first cup of coffee was diving into the dishwasher to get my mug, but that would remind me that I had laundry in the washer from yesterday, so I’d head to the laundry room. But there were clothes in the dryer. I like to fold & hang directly from the dryer, however there were no hangers, so I’d go upstairs to get hangers. I’d get to my bedroom and see that the bed was unmade, and would decide to make that. FINALLY, half an hour or more later, I’d remember that I was trying to pour coffee!
And that was just the start of my every day.
The lack of focus, the sometimes hyper-focus (to the point of forgetting about the world around me and to do things like eat), the procrastination - especially with larger tasks that required multiple steps, the impulsivity, the spinning/buffering, the most problematic symptoms.
The most devastating 'side effect' of ADHD is my impulsivity and lack of filter... It's cost me many friendships over the years.
But I guess it's like 'they' say... I might not be everyone's cup of tea, but I'm someone's shot of whiskey.
So anyway, I sought out a doctor for ADHD in 2018, and we started working together.
She decided to treat me for depression and anxiety disorder…which I didn’t feel was what I was dealing with. Not really. She was treating a symptom of ADHD - I was depressed and anxious because I couldn’t get things finished!! (and the friends I was 'too much' for.)
A few months after we’d started working, some things were going on in her life, and she pulled out of private practice to work entirely in a special ward for in-patient care at the local hospital.
So I was left without a doctor…
I kept putting off the search for a new doctor (there’s that procrastination - oh, the irony!). Come April 2019 - I finally got around to trying to find a new doctor.
In mid-May, I had my first appointment with the new one and she went straight to depression and anxiety as well! Grrrr.
And I get it. It’s easier to treat those disorders b/c the meds are not “Schedule 1” meds. But seriously… I went along with her - and it was not good. The meds she chose were bad (I won’t go into why - just know they were not good for me!). So, the next month she put me on a different med and that was WORSE.
Now - let me start to put these pieces together for you. I started writing Beau Tyed in February 2019… And finished writing it in late June. With ARCs having gone out in early July for an August 6th release.
I started writing Beau Tyed while super distracted. I finished writing Beau Tyed while on meds that fucked with my head.
On release day, things were so bad that I didn’t even get out of bed. Didn’t go on social media. I did cry a lot - for no good reason.
So - I “fired” that doctor, as you might imagine.
Fast forward to November 2020, I finally had a brilliant idea! Why not talk to the doctor that worked with my daughter and HER ADHD. We set up a Zoom Appt and I told her all I’d gone through and she said to me: “I could have told you that you were ADHD 8 years ago.”
OMG - Anyway - So, then started the meds for that…
WOW - been able to study so much better and think so much more. Now…it’s not perfect, but it’s SO much better.
Hell, I was finally able to finish writing the very complicated Choose Your Own Romance - Penelope's Paths.
All of this to say is that I was looking through Beau Tyed one day to grab a quote for something and saw some things that made me cringe! Reflecting back, I realize I had made some bad decisions here and there, cut some corners with the editing process, and so on. So, I unpublished and have been going through it - fixing sentences, improving things here and there, completely reworking some scenes…
AND - I will be re-releasing it on AUGUST 24th.
If you would like a copy of the new and improved Beau Tyed, you can sign up with Enticing Journeys PR... Here's the link:
https://forms.gle/6gNasRgDuTLDLqZf6
And if you're struggling with your own mental health issues - DON'T GIVE UP! Keep at it! There's help to be had. 💗
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