It's Publication Week!

I can't believe we're here

Hello!

It’s a big week at The View From Down Here HQ - my book is out on Thursday!

It feels pretty surreal that the thing that I’ve been working towards for over two years is here. It’s happening.

What the hell.

I am so excited. I am so terrified. And mostly I am completely overwhelmed.

It’s been a wild few weeks, lads. I am still in fairly deep shock that an extract of my book was featured in the actual Sunday Times News Review at the weekend - sentence that sounds like it can’t possibly be true and yet somehow is.

I was also on BBC London, where I chatted to the lovely Samantha Baines about why I wrote the book, being an accidental activist, and why people need to question their assumptions. You can listen back here - I’m on just after 2:10.

And there’s much more to come. Look out for me in the Evening Standard Magazine on Thursday and the Guardian Saturday Mag at the weekend.

I am, as most of you know, the least zen of people, but I am trying extremely hard to just enjoy the ride this week. I’ve got a big party planned with everyone I love that I honestly cannot wait for (except for the small matter of my speech, which I definitely can wait for.)

Other than that, I’m spending the weekend with good friends and my family, the perfect distraction from any nerves. I’m feeling very lucky at the moment to be surrounded by people who make feel safe and loved even when I do scary things, like publish a very personal memoir, and who all know how to celebrate in style.

Until next time, when I’ll be writing to you as a published author!

Lucy