It’s here!

Glad I didn’t have to wait 40 weeks for my book baby to be born.

It took exactly 20 weeks from the idea to the finished product hitting the internet.

So, here’s the deal. I uploaded my two manuscripts on amazon on Sunday. Yesterday/today – in the middle of the night - I got two messages. First that the e-book was available; then a little later that the paperback was ready too.

Let me start by saying that they can be ordered from pretty much anywhere but Switzerland. That’s a LONG story. You can look up amazon and Switzerland if you feel like it. Anyway, I will need about another month to have my book available as a paperback in online bookshops in Switzerland. The e-book will be available in 90 days from now. Since 90% of my readers are outside of Switzerland I decided to go with amazon anyway.

I’ve been asked if people should get the paperback version so I can sign it in NYC in December. Well, I can’t make any promises that I will make it to NYC again – but if I do make it, I will happily sign everybody’s book. Oh, and please make sure that you have a device to read an e-book on before you buy that version. It should work on devices other than kindle. Just make sure you read the small print on that.

As you can tell, I’m totally new to publishing. I have no idea what I’m doing. I might fall flat on my face with my book but guess who’s already working on part two and a novel as well.

Anyway, let me tell you something about the book. It has to do with mental health – that much was clear. So, here’s what’s going on. There are 48 main chapters and a bonus chapter to make it 49 – my age. You know I love numbers. I also love that my book was made available online on one of my very favorite people’s birthdays. I mean how perfect is that?! My aim was August 22, but this is better.

Where was I – ah yes, my book. Basically, you have twelve topics and for each topic there is a stage in the healing process. So, what you can do is read the chapters by stage (in the order they are organized in the book) or by topic in which case you have to jump 12 chapters ahead to continue. It’s explained better in the book, I promise.

There might be a bit of swearing in some of the chapters. That was inevitable. Here are the chapters. All 48 of them.

Evelyne, are you gonna tell us the title of your book? Well, I guess so and you probably saw it already. But yes, the title of my book is OY! PAY ATTENTION! A title that I know will make at least one friend in Boston smile. I wanted it to be a little different. Just as I wanted my book to be a little different. I mean it’s basically a matrix.

So here’s the Amazon link. Those not in the US, it should take you to your country’s amazon page. Unless you’re in Switzerland in which case you can use one of the known tricks to get access – I won’t repeat them here. Swiss people know. Or just give me another month or so.

I’m incredibly proud that I pulled this off. I have no idea how I did it. I mean I had some of the contents already, but it needed to fit the format. I hope some of you will read my book and let me know what you thought.

It's perfectly okay to share the link and help me spread the word. It might make a nice present too (maybe read it first though 😉).

Thanks for all of your support.