Rockstar Tours: MOTHER OF THE RIVER (Emily McPherson), Guest Post & Giveaway! ~INT

 

 

 

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Guest Post:

A Day in the Life of Emily McPherson

 

My daily schedule only recently changed as we (finally) got my son into services for ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder). So, this is a new day in the life.

 

My husband works from home and wakes up at a normal-person hour while my son and I avoid the morning hours like the plague because mornings are gross. We roll out of bed at the very reasonable hour of 10 AM, then I rush like a mad woman to get him to pre-k by 11 while he moves at a sloth-like pace. After I drop the kiddo off at school, I usually grab some coffee or, as my husband and I call it, get-shit-done juice (ie. passionfruit tea) because something about it makes me extremely productive for the day.

 

I get home and say hi to the pugs. Then I have four blissful, uninterrupted hours where I ruin the peace and drive myself absolutely crazy with writing, editing, marketing, and reading. I tend to save my writing and editing for Saturdays when I have an entirely husband- and kid-free day, giving me plenty of time to dive into the world of my characters. Weekdays are more focused on reading and marketing, and as marketing is not my forte, a lot of my time allotted for that is spent on research and trial and error efforts. After my four hours is up, I pick my son up from school and take him to our local special need services building where he has play-based therapies for two more hours. (I know. It’s a long day for such a small human, but he loves it, and he has Wednesdays and weekends off.) So, I have an additional two hours of book-related anxiety during that time as well. Yay!

 

When the three of us are finally home for the day, we like to relax with a book or play with stuffed animals, bubbles, alphabet cards, or whatever else the kiddo wants to do. Thursdays have been dubbed “Thirsty Therapy Thursdays” in our house as my husband and I have our individual therapies that day and could usually use a drink after discussing what trauma made us the stereotypically depressed Millenials we are today. So, if it’s Thursday, I make myself a drink in my new Christmas cup that looks like a tree ornament, making it a merry, magical drink!

 

We live in a fairly small space and don’t have a dining room (or space to put a table), so dinner is always served on the couch with a movie or show. Our son refuses to sleep until my husband and I go to bed, but he usually heads into his bedroom and plays on his tablet while the grown-ups watch The Crown, Dead to Me, Hell’s Kitchen, iZombie for the third time, or Down to Earth. After a few kid-free (though not necessarily uninterrupted) episodes, we get ready for bed, make sure the dogs have water for the night, and go to bed where I plot my next six books just to forget all my brilliant, Pulitzer Prize-winning ideas by morning.

 

All-in-all, it’s a pretty good life. I’m grateful for all I have and who I have, and I wouldn’t change anythi–well, a dinner table would be nice.

 

 

About Emily McPherson:

Emily
McPherson is an author for young adult readers with several fantasy projects in
the works. As a member of the LGBTQIA+ community, she strives to normalize
seeing characters of the rainbow on the page without harmful stereotypes. She
is an Irish dancer with a slight obsession with mythological creatures. She
lives in Connecticut with her husband, son, and – the real mythological
creatures – her two rescue pugs.

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