The 700 Club

First reached 700 ratings on Amazon this past weekend. If I look back at these posts on reaching certain milestones, it looks like the book is getting about a hundred reviews every four to five weeks. And it’s leveled out at 4.4 stars for quite a while now, even with the spate of lower ratings I mentioned a few weeks back. It’s amazing that the book has sold so many copies and received so many favorable ratings and reviews. Thank you so much to each person who’s read the book and provided their feedback. I started writing the book in July 2021 and finished the first draft in October of that year. Seems so long ago. What’s interesting is that after that draft, it took another two years to get the book in the hands of readers in October 2023. Lots of work went on between the first draft and the completed version. I was just looking at the files on my computer and saw one called ‘Prologue.docx’. I forgot how much I struggled with whether to include a one-page prologue to the book. Even now, I wonder if it would make a difference. It starts in the middle of the action, but then the narrative resets and takes you through the characters training to be astronauts and you don’t get to the point in the prologue until about two-thirds of the way through the book. Nah, I did the right thing by leaving it out. Anyway, 700 ratings is another milestone on the way to greatness!