This is a Book About Anxiety

<p><strong>From the author of <em>27 and No F***ing Clue</em> and <em>(Modern) Life of the Hopeless Romantic</em></strong></p><p></p><p><em>It's a novel. It's a self-help book. It's a breakdown disguised as both.</em></p><p><em>If you've ever overanalyzed a text replayed a conversation five times in the shower or spiraled over nothing-and also everything-this is for you.</em></p><p></p><p>Okay... so I'm supposed to be writing the back cover copy. Cool. Easy.</p><p></p><p>Except it's not that easy-because technically this is a book about anxiety...</p><p>But also maybe a novel. Or a self-help book? Or a breakdown disguised as both.</p><p></p><p>It's hard to say really.</p><p></p><p><strong>Here's what I can tell you:</strong></p><p></p><p>There's <strong>Zak</strong>-an overthinker with the unique ability to ruin a perfectly normal interaction by imagining the worst-case scenario and then mentally living it all the way to the end.</p><p></p><p>Then there's <strong>Ava</strong>-composed controlled and quietly trained in chaos handling her anxiety with precision instead of panic but still carrying it with her everywhere she goes.</p><p></p><p>And of course there's me... because let's be honest this book isn't <em>not</em> about me either.</p><p></p><p>It starts off simple enough.</p><p>Then it gets complicated.</p><p>Then it sort of... derails. But like on purpose.</p><p></p><p><em>It's not what you think.</em></p><p><em>Or maybe it is.</em></p><p><em>Honestly it's hard to tell anymore.</em></p><p></p><p><strong><em>But it might be exactly what you need.</em></strong></p><p></p><p>from <em>This Is a Book About Anxiety</em></p><p></p><p><em>This book? It's going to be a self-help book disguised as a novel that's also making fun of self-help books while maybe helping you but more so probably just for entertainment. Confused? Good. Me too.</em></p><p></p><p><em>Am I supposed to be like 'yeah I was texting in my group chat with my buddies when I was supposed to be working and we were talking about how planes aren't real and then my buddy sent me a f**king twerk video and I watched it 50 times over and probably got a half chub and then this f**ker from HR walked past me and saw what I what I was watching and then went to my boss and told-</em></p><p></p><p><em>The candlelight from the bedroom threw botanical shadows across the wall like 'What if a jungle f**ked a Pottery Barn?'</em></p><p></p><p><em>Zak fights every thought like it's a war. Ava? She spots them deals with them and lets them float past. That's the difference.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Welcome to the spiral.</strong></p><p></p><p><em>This is the kind of book that doesn't fit in a category.</em></p><p></p><p>Part fiction part accidental self-help and part chaotic therapy session you didn't sign up for-<strong><em>This Is a Book About Anxiety</em></strong> is a genre-bending fourth-wall-breaking emotionally reckless deep dive into what happens when overthinking stops being funny and starts feeling real.</p><p></p><p>With a structure that mirrors anxiety itself-unpredictable spiraling secretly intentional-it's the kind of story that pulls you in before you realize it's about you too.</p><p></p><p>If you've ever felt too much too little too fast too late-or all of it at once-you're not broken.</p><p>You're just in the middle of a sentence.</p><p></p><p><strong>About the Author</strong></p><p>Vince Kelly is a thirty-something San Diego dude who has spent most of his life overthinking everything from career choices to text bubbles. He didn't set out to write a book about anxiety-it just kind of happened. Between the spirals the sarcasm and the accidentally personal breakdowns he somehow ended up here. And honestly? It tracks.</p><p></p><p></p>