🥹🥳 You Guys Put MAM on the Charts!
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In this week's issue of The Goblin Grace Gazette:
Hello, dear friend! First, a HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who downloaded Mending and Madness over Valentine’s Day weekend! There were 328 downloads when all was said and done. I’m still trying to figure out where all these people even came from, because my entire email list is only a fraction of that number. This wasn't a big, publicized Stuff Your Kindle event — it was just a girl, a book about soup, and her amazing readers who told their friends and showed up in droves. I’m gobsmacked. Furthermore, on Saturday you guys put Mending and Madness near the top of the charts in multiple categories! Someday I might get used to you showing up consistently and believing in my books even more than I do — but I know I’ll never get tired of it. So to everyone who helped get this book into so many readers’ hands: thank you for being in my corner and for believing in MAM. New Tagline Who Dis? Two weeks ago I was grinning at my phone like a gremlin mastermind. My evil plan was going swimmingly. The plan, you ask? To introduce some online friends to a local friend in a deeply unhinged group chat called the "Woodland Rave." They're all amazing women and I simply needed them to meet (even if virtually) for their edification and my own personal entertainment. The selection of woodland mascots and "nice to meet you" chitchat quickly morphed into a "how did you meet your husband" discussion, to which we all enjoyed some adorable stories involving church groups, horses, and worship teams. So cute. I honestly ship my friends and their husbands so hard. Then it was my turn. "Our story is NOT cute," I typed candidly. "It's more… scrappy." Then I told the tale of two single parents falling in love without really knowing how to love because we didn't know Jesus yet. Our dead hearts and bad track records created a real mess of our marriage. Then there was a glimmer of hope as the effectual calling of the Holy Spirit brought us to life, followed by some serious growing pains as God mended the things we shattered. "Now we're VERY happily married," I concluded. "But again... not cute. Scrappy." 24 hours later, it hit me: scrappy marriages. That’s my books! It's a much more accurate description than just "already-married." Are my MCs already married when the book begins? For sure. But more than that, they're broken. Their stories are sweet not because they start hitched and just stay madly in love, but because they dig themselves into messes and require God to pull them back out again. “Already-Married Romance for Weary Hearts” was fine for a time, but I found something that fits better. So I’m officially retiring it and introducing my new tagline: To me, it feels gritty and candid and hopeful — a better representation of marriages that require hard work. More like the real love story I lived and more like the darkly whimsical tales I now write in fantasy romance novels. So what do you think? Is it a better fit than the old one? ⭐ With a gold star if you read this entire email,
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