On all the docs and spreadsheet and in the preface, I have "[HQ]" as a placeholder. I'd like to know who she is.
However, it's likely you won't until the prefaces go back up, possibly until the first chapters go up with them.
The bond I will be developing with her, and probably any subsequent non-tattoo squad preference queens, will be entirely too fragile for me to tell anyone much of anything about it.
I think you could only really attempt to understand what I mean if you read the prefaces when they were first released.
But the fact of the matter is that you guys cannot possibly understand what this has done to me (and potentially other writers).
I'm experiencing physical symptoms. I haven't showered in two days since, unbeknownst to me, the last few hours where I wasn't, quite literally, living a nightmare. It is a reoccuring nightmare I've had; losing any member of my UK or US top three. As you can imagine, I am in my own unique brand of hell.
Beginning my search for whoever the hell "HQ" will wind up being is taking so much willpower. I need to push myself into this or it will never get done. That said, I'm going to take as much time as I need to process and heal. Do you know how I'll be doing that? Through prep and writing for "HQ". She won't know it until/if she ever reads her preface letter, but she will have pulled me through the lowest point in my entire writing career.