Bookaversary

Yesterday was the one-year anniversary of Next Time’s publishing date. As usual, hard to believe a year has passed already. It was a quick, eventful year for my second professionally published book. Let’s tally up the events, shall we? Next Time garnered 5-star reviews from Reader Views, Readers’ Favorite, Literary Titan, and the Bookish Elf, and was on must-read lists from Independent Book Review and Reedsy Discovery. Awards? Yeah, multiples of those, too. Literary Titan, PenCraft, and International Impact Award, all gave Next Time first prize as the best book in its category. Heck, the book even received a great review from a website reviewer I didn’t even know I’d sent it to. Just for fun, I went back and read all the reader comments on Amazon. Several of them said the book was hard to put down and at least one said they read it in one day. I’m so glad that people have enjoyed the book and even more so that they liked it that much. As you know, I run ads on BookBub each weekend, and the quote I use for the Next Time ad is from The Bookish Elf which calls it “a gorgeous, affecting read.” Not only is it great ad copy, it’s also great praise. Happy anniversary, Next Time. It’s been quite the ride and we’re just getting started.