And so it dawned, publication day at last. I was sickly excited and didn't sleep a wink the night before. It was kind of like Christmas Eve for grown ups, and required a really big shot of brandy to steady my nerves.
My Kindle notified my that the book I'd pre-ordered had been delivered. MY BOOK had been delivered to MY KINDLE! Hoorah! And Oh God! That meant it WAS LIVE! Seeing my cover come up on the kindle screen was another of those omg moments - publishing seemed to have a lot ot those all of a sudden. I of course took a picture of my kindle, and a screenshot of the book on amazon, and manically refreshed the page to see if it had a ranking or any reviews. That's normal, right?
When I clicked onto Authonomy's website I had another fabulous surprise - banners across the top and all down the sides with the Undertaking Love cover and 'available now!' notices. It looked amazing!
I hit social media to let all of the lovely ladies who'd read and enjoyed my self published book know that I had a brand new book out. I'd also built up a newsletter group by that time and sent out a thoroughly over excited letter to let them know too. It's a good job I don't own a loud hailer, or else everyone within two miles of my house would have known too! You just get this huge urge to shout and tell the world. Look what I did! I wrote a flippin book! And then panic, and hide under a rock and hope no one reads it because it is almost certainly terrible and HarperCollins must rue the day they said yes. And then leap about some more shouting I wrote a book, I did, a real actual thing you can get on amazon! And then drink the brandy someone presses into your hands. And then pass out from exhaustion. That pretty much covered it, I think.
The rankings made compulsive viewing. The opening rank was somewhere mid twenty thousands, and it rose progressively over the course of the day. Down, down, all the way to 323! That was so much better than I'd dared hope for, and within twenty four hours there'd been six 5 star reviews. So far so good, and to say I was relieved is an understatement. The book had been so close to my heart for so long, and at last people were reading it and seeming to enjoy it. People other than my mother and my sister. :)
Day one down... day two to go. Where would it go... up, or down?
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From First Word to Publication ~ Undertaking Love by Kat French
Não FicçãoMy true-life diary from first stroke of the key as a brand new writer to publication by Avon. My first romantic comedy, Undertaking Love, is to be published in June 2014 by HarperCollins. I also write erotic romance as Kitty French. I've recorded my...
