Amy Huberman feared she lost the manuscript of her new children’s book after her laptop broke.
The actress, who is the wife of former Ireland rugby captain Brian O’Driscoll, announced last month she was set to release her first children’s book, The Day I Got Trapped in My Brain, saying that she is "bursting with excitement".
But Amy was left in a panic after the laptop she was working on shut down and she feared she had lost the book’s manuscript.
She told her Instagram followers: “Good morning! Any tech advice greatly appreciated. My Mac book is slower than me in the mornings. Saying I don’t have a lot of storage. Deleted loads of saved stuff. Still slow… like I type and it won’t catch up. Is it just time to buy a new one??? This is prob 5 or 6 years old? This is not helping the deadline.”
She then updated her followers later on to say she had sorted out the laptop and was grateful her manuscript wasn’t lost.
Her children’s book, The Day I Got Trapped in My Brain, follows Frankie who, together with her little brother Fred, can disappear to Thoughtopolis, a magical world inside her head.
Amy joked: "My family will finally believe me now that I really was upstairs writing and not just pretending to be hiding in the loo for some peace.
"The first thing I ever wanted to do when I was a kid was to write children’s fiction," the Finding Joy actress explained.
"It has always been there in the back of my mind.
"And I have wanted to write another book for some time now, so when the fabulous publishers at Scholastic came to me a while back to discuss writing a middle grade book, mini 12 year old me swooned, hit the decks and is still down there.
"I did get up to start writing cause, you know, deadlines."
She went on to thank "my brilliant editors for all your support and encouragement."
"I am bursting with excitement for you to meet Frankie and to come on her adventure," she added.
The book will be released in September of this year, Amy also revealed.
In a tweet announcing the book's 2022 release, book industry publication The Bookseller said that the story features a "spirited, determined and utterly relatable protagonist that readers will absolutely adore".
Meanwhile, the blurb for the book reads: "Thoughtopolis is an adventure-land, filled with the best things an 11-year-old can imagine, until Frankie gets trapped inside and it suddenly stops being her fun refuge."
