I've been talking incessantly about my debut, ROCKET MAN (in stores now!), so I've been looking for new ways to convey what the reading experience will be. 

Today I'll let you experience it via word frequency. My writing program (Scrivener, which is pretty darn cool, y'all) has a 'word frequency' function designed, probably, to alert me when I overuse conjunctions and so forth. I've used it to create lists that will give you a little taste of ROCKET MAN. 12 is my favorite number, so here (in the order that Scrivener generated them) are 3 lists of 12 words used often, sometimes, and occasionally:

12 words I use about 120 times in ROCKET MAN:

1. Herself
2. Enough
3. Room
4. Oh
5. Why
6. That's
7. Hand
8. Around
9. Put
10. While
11. Make
12. Door

12 words I use about 60 times in ROCKET MAN:

1. Night
2. Blue
3. Another
4. Yes
5. Coffee
6. Funny
7. Hey
8. Shoulder
9. Plan
10. Kiss
11. Finally
12. Breath

12 words I use exactly 12 times in ROCKET MAN:

1. Refused
2. Freaking
3. Forever
4. Touching
5. Bite
6. Eventually
7. Paused
8. Mint
9. Wet
10. Erection
11. Tension
12. Lists

So, if you haven't read it, can you guess what my book's about? If you have, do you think these lists capture the flavor? Let me know in the comments!

Today is Launch Day (in my head; it's been up for a day or two) for ROCKET MAN!

What does that mean? Well, of course it means the book is available everywhere. (Correction: ALMOST everywhere. If you're an iBooks person & just totally want it RIGHT NOW, leave me a comment below. I'll alert you when it's up & also if you're the first person to comment, I'll give you a copy free.) (That free copy thing applies to all formats. Know what? It's launch day, I'm feeling dandy - first three comments get a free ebook.) (I'm feeling dandy, and also like I wish people would comment. I love reader comments.)

What else the launch means:

• My super cover & illustration (not MY cover & illustration, those I paid for) & awesome formatter have all pulled together to make ROCKET MAN look gorgeous. 
• People are buying the book, and most of them aren't even my mom! (Hi, Mom!) (Mom bears no resemblance to Serena's mom, for the record.)
• I'm shivery-nervous, although the first review was a good one, so that's exciting & encouraging.
• I'm prided up to my priding bone (that's an inside joke I just let out) that I managed so many moving parts to the non-book-writing aspects of self-publishing. I've learned so much! The next book will be easy to publish!
• I'll be going on a bit about this book on FB & Twitter & elsewhere on the web. Marketing types will tell you it's because I'm trying to build buzz for my book. I'll tell you it's really because I'm too giddy to shush, or talk about much else right now. (I promise I'll go on about how cute my dog is soon. Because she really, really is.)

So, when you see me out & about online today, wave. (Or, you know - comment, tweet, thumbs-up, etc.) I'm delighted to be sharing ROCKET MAN with you, and the whole wide world, as well.