book is in the warehouse

For whatever reason, I've been incapable of updating this blog until today: the day I learned that my book is in the publisher's warehouse. A catalyzing bit of news. For those of you unfamiliar with publishing, the arrival of books to a publisher's warehouse marks the birth of a book. It's not officially "out," (in the cotillion sense) but it's officially alive, breathing, and my publicist emailed today to get a list of my "big mouth" friends, so she could send them advanced copies. I'm a beaming, proud parent. Now I just have to embrace the fact that I'm the beaming proud parent of a book on this particular topic. But I remind myself: it's a public service (a doctor I interviewed told me so). Why? Because if millions of folks read this book instead of visiting their doctors, and the irregularity problem is solved through a little creative cooking, then I (we) have saved the health care institution millions of dollars. Yahoozee. Let the savings begin...(in about two weeks when books arrive in stores).