Rebecca Yarros released her first book to international audiences on a Monday. She went on vacation just a few days later, which was just a few weeks after her husband returned from his latest deployment.

Yep, it's just how military spouses roll. And Rebecca, mother of five, nationally recognized blogger, wife of an aviator and now best-selling author, can roll with the best of them.

Rebecca, also a Salute to Spouses blogger, released her first novel, Full Measures to eager audiences earlier this year. The book, currently only available as an e-book, quickly climbed the charts, not just in the U.S., but around the world.

"You figure that first day it will do ok because my mom is going to buy it. But then it's been out for a week and a half and people I don't know are buying it. It's legitimate. It's more than your mother trying to push it on her book club," Rebecca said.

Full Measures tells the story that Rebecca most fears, the aftermath when a soldier is killed in action. Her main character's father is killed in Afghanistan. Rebecca said the story felt very personal and that she almost didn't write it.

The fact that she wrote the tale during her husband's own deployment to the same region would make most military wives shudder. Rebecca said she began the tome before he left and had to walk away from the keyboard for a month as her own emotions ran high when her husband left. Still, the writing is what kept her going during the sleepless nights.

"I have a hard time sleeping if I know he's awake," she said. "Instead of reading I would write until my eyes crossed."

Rebecca said she makes it a point to write a page every day. That was the easy part. The hard part, was admitting that she was doing more than simply typing away - that she was writing a book.

 "If you tell someone you are doing it, suddenly you have this goal and now you are accountable for it. Anyone can say, 'I want to write a book.' But now you have to finish it," she said.

Moving the story from her computer to audiences was a journey that Rebecca said is not for the weak. She sent letters and her manuscript to 32 agents.

"It is awful and you get rejected and if you can't handle rejection you should not be a writer," she said.  "It can take months for them to read it. I was biting my nails every day."

Her agent is also a military spouse who connected with the novel instantly. Now, readers around the world are doing the same.

"I feel extraordinary blessed to have this career, it's my dream career," she said. "It was a lot of hard work and heartbreak but it is still worth it."

Rebecca still writes at least a page every night and has several projects in the works. Readers hungry for more can check out her work at Salute to Spouses and her own blog, The Only Girl Among Boys http://theonlygirlamongboys.blogspot.com/  which was named 2013's #1 Top Military Mom blog.

The book is the icing on the cake for a busy year in which Rebecca endured a deployment and adopted a baby daughter all within a few months.

"Everything I ever wanted has been handed out so fast it is like drinking from a waterfall," she said.