Day of the Book Release

I have mixed feelings on the day one of my novels is released. Of course, the sense of having delivered it to the world is somewhat like a mother must feel when she gives a newborn baby. But there are attendant feelings colored in various categories of anxiety. The tension is over, but the suspense begins. Have some errors remained despite the sleepless nights spent trying to remove them? Will something in the book annoy someone? Will someone start to identify with a character in the novel? Will some readers not like to complete the story they’ve begun reading? Will the reviewers be no more than fault-finders? There are so many scorpions in my mind that I consider it best to forget about it and drown in the thoughts of another novel.