Tuesday Flight Risk launched into the world. Launch weeks are always busy. There’s marketing. Copious amounts of coffee. Nerves all over the place. Walks to control stress. More caffeine. Lots of prayer and holding one’s breath.
What will people think?
Will they love and enjoy the story I spent months and untold hours on?
Did I forget a blog tour stop to visit and leave a comment? Has anyone left a review yet? Are we at the magic number fifty at Amazon yet? Where’s the best price to send people?
What?!? Bookstores are closed? How do I help people support independent bookstores when the stores aren’t open? Anywhere?
Is there a place I can send people to listen to the audiobook? Yes. Where can I send them to read the first five chapters? Here. Do I have things loosely organized for the scavenger hunt style giveaway/celebration tour? Have I answered my friends comments on how to frame it? Do I have enough headlines? Do I have the basic text and image that I can adapt for everyone who’s hosting a stop? How am I going to collect votes? Will people play along? ARGH!!!!!
These were just a few of the questions and concerns going through my mind Sunday and Monday leading up to release on Tuesday.
It hasn’t helped that the course I teach at Purdue moved online for the balance of the semester. Or that I’m in the middle of macroedits for the next book (Lethal Intent — Caroline gets her book!!!!).
So today, I just want to say thank you. Thank you for being faithful readers of Christian fiction. Thank you for loving books. Thank you for supporting local bookstores. Thank you for posting reviews on the books you read. Thank you for letting authors know that their words matters.
Thank you.
And in case you want to play along, click on the image above to join the Hunt. And at the very end, you can join a different giveaway. I’m just so grateful for you and the way you help me write.
And if you want to know just how crazy it was to live with me the last week, Tune into Facebook Friday night, April 10, at 6:00 EST as Eric joins me for a Facebook Live.
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Congrats on the new release, Cara! It looks like another great one!
Thank you!
Congratulations on the book release, Cara! I’m looking forward to reading it!
Thank you!
I have been looking forward to reading Flight Risk. I finished the book I was reading on Kindle and saw that Flight Risk is now in my library. Holding out for a SIGNED physical copy of the book. I sure missed the SoKY Book Fest and chatting with you this year.
I missed being there so much! I was going to teach a writing course, but maybe next year!
I just finished Flight Risk. LOVED IT!Good thing we are sheltering in place, because I couldn’t put the book down.
I do hope to see you next spring and I do hope you teach that writing course, I would love to attend.
I enjoy your books and looking forward to reading Flight Risk. Is this stand alone book? If it will be series, I like to have them all before I begin reading! Thanks for the good books you write.
This is a stand alone. You’ll see characters from Hidden Justice, but it is intentionally written to stand on its own independent of all other books 🙂
I would enjoy reading this book.
Congrats, Cara. Relax and enjoy!
Congratulations! Hope everything goes well with the release. 🙂
Sounds great. Terrific cover.