{"id":369,"date":"2015-01-02T12:06:33","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T17:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/?p=369"},"modified":"2015-01-07T17:04:24","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T22:04:24","slug":"369","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/2015\/01\/02\/369\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s a whole new year, and to get things started off on the right foot, I saw a lovely tweet from someone who enjoyed The Spirit Keeper<\/em> and is still yearning for the sequel.\u00a0 Read her review of my book and other interesting tidbits on her website:<\/p>\n

*Release Day* The Spirit Keeper by K.B. Laugheed |A Ruminative Tome of Introspective Freedom<\/a><\/p>\n

To be honest, I didn\u2019t actually read her review, but that\u2019s only because I\u2019ve never read any<\/em> review of my book. Don\u2019t get me wrong–it\u2019s not that I don\u2019t care what other people think. It\u2019s just that I\u2019m not someone who can afford to let other people inside my head because it\u2019s crowded enough in there as it is. If I start letting strangers in, riots will break out, mayhem and madness will ensue, and before you know it I\u2019ll be curled into the fetal position under my bed, whimpering for more medication.<\/p>\n

Nobody wants that.\u00a0 Y\u2019all just wanna read Part 2, right?<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the thing:\u00a0 The Spirit Keeper<\/em> is not the first book I\u2019ve written; it\u2019s just the first one that was any good. How do I account for its success where so many others failed? Because when I sat down to write it, I told myself I would not care what anyone else thought of it. I said, \u201cI\u2019m gonna write a book just for me and no one else will ever even read it!\u201d<\/p>\n

Well, obviously I was lying, but what I do in the privacy of my own head is my<\/em> business, isn\u2019t it, and I\u2019m only telling you this now so you\u2019ll see how fine the line is between creativity and pure lunacy. Maybe then you\u2019ll understand why I need to be so careful about whose thoughts I let in. If the only way I could write a good book was to promise myself I wouldn\u2019t care what anyone else thought of it, then how can I possibly allow myself to care what anyone else thinks of it now? \u00a0I\u2019ll never believe another lie I tell!<\/p>\n

Which is not to say I\u2019m not enormously grateful for any kind reviews I\u2019ve received.\u00a0 I am.\u00a0 All I\u2019m saying is that it\u2019s a mess inside my head, and believe me when I tell you I\u2019m doing you a favor by not letting you in. \u00a0So thanks for your generous support, Jorielovesastory, and let\u2019s hope I manage to get the rest of Katie\u2019s story published before certain voices in my head find out what I\u2019ve been up to.\u00a0 It’s so dark under my bed . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s a whole new year, and to get things started off on the right foot, I saw a lovely tweet from someone who enjoyed The Spirit Keeper and is still yearning for the sequel.\u00a0 Read her review of my book and other interesting tidbits on her website: *Release Day* The Spirit Keeper by K.B. Laugheed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kblaugheed.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}