Upcoming Book Release: Goodbye, Good Night and Good Riddance

I am SO excited to share that I'll be publishing a fifth psychological thriller next month!

It’s time for another book release! This will make book number five for me, and it’s one of my darkest, in-my-feels books so far.

The reason for the title and what it means

I chose “Goodbye, Good Night, and Good Riddance” because it’s about a young woman grappling with alcoholism and mental illness. She decides she simply can’t do it anymore, and finds herself drowning in resentment toward herself, her life, and everyone in it. She wants to stick it to those she feels had a part in her decision one last time, so the finality of Goodbye, Good Night and Good Riddance sounded and felt right.

Controversy and triggers

The book is dark, dark. It’s not something someone who can be easily triggered should read, and I try to be up front about that. I actually brought it up to my psychiatrist (and was really scared she’d freak out about me writing it at all) because if anyone in my life had an idea of whether something is good, positive, or safe, regarding these hard topics, it’s her. Thankfully, she had the opposite reaction.

Once I told her about the topic being suicide, followed by the entirety of the plot and how it ends, she said the book sounded positive and not like a glorification, especially with everything being rooted in my own life and experiences. She even expressed hope that maybe it could help people. I don’t want to give anything away regarding the ending, but what’s so positive about the book is the journey from start to finish. It starts so harshly and negative, but the beauty in it is the consequences of her actions, the literal soul searching, and her arrival at the destination she’s worked so hard to reach.

More about Goodbye, Good Night and Good Riddance

The book begins with our main character, Polly Walker, at the end of her rope. She’s dead right from the jump on page one, and from there we learn about what happened.

She starts off her story in “the void” which is the in-between for those who have died, but have too low of a frequency to be anywhere near the light. She’s greeted by Grandma Lizzie, her beloved grandmother that passed away from breast cancer when Polly was only five. She’s able to guide Polly, show her the ropes, and leave her to take her own journey.

When a person lands in the void, their life was hard and they’re too far from the light. The only way to get to the light is to raise their frequency. They need to go back over their life with a fine tooth comb, looking at each and every negative emotion or event, to try to gain a better understanding of not only the ones they blame, but themselves and their own part in it. They learn empathy, sympathy, forgiveness and understanding. They learn to let things go. They learn things that would have benefitted them while alive, the things that would have brought them close to the light even on Earth. Once their journey is completed, which takes no time at all and all the time in the world (because time isn’t real in the void) they can go into the light. Nobody knows what’s in the light until they get there, but in their souls they know it’s where they want to be.

Polly’s struggle with alcoholism, not measuring up to her own standards, her toxic relationship with her boyfriend Sully and her chaotic friendship with her childhood best friend Hannah, have made everything feel unbearable. Her mother is emotionally absent and her father is actually absent with a witch of a wife, and Polly can’t take it any longer when a girl Sully had been cheating on her with sends her a photo of them together.

She starts her journey, looking at every nook and cranny of her relationships with herself and these people in order to better understand where it all went wrong. It’s not all bad though- the void has a lot of benefits. Though she’s no longer living, she can revisit and relive the best moments of her life to remember why she once loved those people so much, and what it was like to love her own life.

Polly discovers that ending her life didn’t stop her existence in this emotionally raw exploration of the afterlife, and that there is still meaning in life even in death.

Get ready to preorder Goodbye, Good Night, Good Riddance on Kindle this March! Paperbacks will be available on the day of the release.

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Added bonus:

I’ve recently redone both covers for my novels 12,775 Days and Hometown Revenge: A Cruel Reckoning!