How the excitement of publication day never gets old

I’ve been writing since 2013 and indie publishing since 2015, and in that time, I’ve published six romance novels/novellas with two more coming very soon. You’d think by now that I’d be getting used to publication days and maybe feeling a bit blasé about them, but I can honestly say that I am just as excited about the one that’s coming up, as I was about my very first one back in 2015.

Five years ago in the summer of 2014, I was just finishing editing my first romance novel, From Here to Nashville, and I was about to commission my first cover design. It was a really exciting time, and although I hoped to sell some books, I had no idea that I would go on to write and publish so many more books, and to still be publishing new ones five years later.

This time round, a lot of things have changed. Now, I have a list of advanced readers and I was able to send The Bistro by Watersmeet Bridge out to them for advance feedback. I also have a good sized list of newsletter subscribers and I’ve been able to do lots of promotion to them in advance of the book being published. I’ve received three times as many pre-orders this time as I did for my first book because my audience has grown, and this has helped my book to race up the charts, and even to be listed by Amazon as a Hot New Release! I’m so grateful to all my readers for helping me to achieve this. I’m keeping my fingers crossed for a bestseller tag for this book when it comes out 🙂

I’ve also scheduled a blog tour a couple of weeks after publication day, and I’ve been delighted to see so many book bloggers sign up for the tour that Rachel of Rachel’s Random Resources has very kindly arranged for me. I’ve also put my book up on Net Galley with the help of a co-operative press in the hope of gaining even more reviews this time round.

So this has all added to the usual excitement of publication day which is fast approaching on 6 August, 2019. I’m very lucky to be part of such a friendly writing community online as well who have also been supporting me by sharing the news about my next book. I know they will also be there for me on publication day and beyond as well. I have a lot to be thankful for, and I’m so glad that I’ve persevered with my writing, even when at times, it has been tough.

If you would like to read the first chapter of my new book, and you still haven’t done so, you can find it here. If that whets your appetite so much that you want to pre-order The Bistro by Watersmeet Bridge at the special low price of 99p/99c, you can go ahead and do that on that page too. I hope you enjoy reading and I look forward to reading your reviews once the book is published. Let me know what you think of that first chapter by leaving a comment below 🙂