Michael Boulerice 🏂

Today is my 46th birthday. It's also publishing day for INHALATION. If it's alright with you guys, I'd like to talk about why this book exists, as well as spend some time thanking the folks who made this possible

Alright, the aperol spritzes are calling my name. Thank you for considering INHALATION as you're shopping for new books B&N: tinyurl.com/mux5k6su Gibsons (signed copies): tinyurl.com/4c7dpd39 'Zon: tinyurl.com/mrxk8shj Bookshop: tinyurl.com/5n8kzext

Lastly, I'd like to thank the state of New Hampshire for being my home, my muse, and for allowing me to represent it in my writing

Enormous thank you to @WESTSIDEGUNN for making what turned out to be my playlist for writing this book. Fly God is an awesome god!

BLURB (almost) THANK YOU: [This space is reserved for the actual @JohnIrving66067, who, for reasons I still can not understand, agreed to read INHALATION a couple month back. If he does end up giving me a blurb I promise to get it tattooed on my body]

BLURB THANK YOUS: @WholeTimeDavid, B.R. Yeager, Bridget Brave, @MoMoshaty, Michael Bettendorf, @ItsMeDavidCross, Candace Nola, Emma Cole, @renBolger, @CoreyFarrenkopf, Michael Tichy, Emma Murray, and @TheDirkCarcle

Big boy thank yous to everyone who preordered, retweeted, read and reviewed INHALATION in the months leading up to this moment. It never fails to blow my mind when people are willing to do this. How is this my life. I really am the luckiest dude on the planet

I refuse to acknowledge my cats Charlie and Sydney, and I am absolutely not thanking my puppy Chad. They sabotage my writing career with their cuteness at every turn and they should all be ashamed of themselves

As always, my wife Jessica gets a wheelbarrow full of sparkling thank-yous for being my biggest cheerleader and shaking her pom-poms as I navigate this whole “second act as a horror writer” thing

The ultra-talented and lovely Andrea Sorrentino for blessing me with his very first book cover, as well as a few select interior illustrations. I still can't believe I landed the Gideon Falls guy for this. HE DRAWS BATMAN. WHY IS HE SLUMMING IT WITH BOULERICE

@AlexWoodroe—my rock star editor and close personal friend—for helping to ensure Milo’s journey was exactly as it needed to be, and for beating me with a sock full of nickels whenever I stepped out of line (she is incredibly violent). Let's make books forever, shall we?

THANK YOUS: Right out of the gate I’d like to thank @DeadSkyPub for giving me the opportunity to tell a deeply personal story in that patented asymmetrical and slightly dizzying Boulerice fashion. Megan Yundt, Kristy Baptist, Steve Wands, Jeremy Wagner; you guys are the best

Ultimately we are all Milo. We're all susceptible to manipulation. We're all a blink away from death's door. We'll all face a crossroads in which we're forced to decide between doing the easy/selfish thing, or the hard/scary thing in service of those we love

For reasons that are obvious, this was an incredibly emotionally challenging book to write. To see it on shelves brings me an immense amount of joy. It also terrifies me. A part of my reptilian brain believes writing about real pain will infect the reader. I hope it doesn't

Later, after he passed and I was in the middle of cleaning out his auto body shop, I’d revisit at my notes app and understand I’d wanted to give him one last gift; a heroic send-off for a beautiful and wise man who’d led a complicated life and left our world entirely too early

INHALATION is a tribute to my late father-in-law who passed after a brief battle with cancer. I outlined this book sitting next to his bed in hospice. I had no idea what I was jotting down. It all just fell out of me in a fog of pre-grief and my brain refused to retain any of it

A whopping 25 copies of INHALATION are currently being given away on Goodreads right now. Want one? Look below ⬇️

If @WholeTimeDavid likes INHALATION, you'll like INHALATION. I don't make the rules Smoke 'em if you got 'em Advance copies and preorder links in the first comment