Well, it happened. Deadline hit the hot & trending list the evening I finally promoted it (with an updated manuscript). Woo-hoo!
I had been in Salt Lake City the whole day, and got back to Grantsville at 3 p.m. I checked my email and got this message from Kindle Scout regarding my request to update my manuscript:
Hello Jewel,
Thank you for your email regarding your Kindle Scout book, Deadline. We have uploaded the updated manuscript, also I updated the excerpt for your submission. Thank you for submitting to Kindle Scout!
(I love the KS staff. They have been so helpful and the turnaround wasn’t as long as I thought it might take – 2 business days.)
As you could guess, I was super excited. But first, I had to run a few errands, including buying ingredients for caramel apples (tonight’s Family Home Evening treat). Finally, by 5 p.m., I got on my laptop and started spreading the news.
I had made an ad for Deadline using Derek Murphy’s 3-D templates, and it was just waiting to go. I unleashed it like some publicity weapon to my timeline, to groups I belonged to, even to the cover critique group who gave me helpful feedback for my cover. I am sure I missed other groups, but I will save them for another day. Heck, I haven’t even e-mailed my newsletter list. But I will.
I phrased it as, “check out the excerpt, and if you think it should be published, please nominate it.” After all, I don’t want it to just be a sympathy vote. Though I expect my husband to nominate it sight unseen. 😊
So the evening went on. We ate dinner as a family, comments were coming in on my posts, friends were being super supportive about it, and we made caramel apples (a messy but so-worth it process). And then I checked the KS leaderboard.
I made it to the hot & trending list! Yay!
And the caramel apples were yummy, by the way.
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