It's Here! A Special Birthday Gift for You Lovely Subscribers
My novel is finally out in the world--party news and a free gift for you
My book launch is happening today. We’ve arrived at celebration time.
If you haven’t already ordered my book, find it here in paperback, ebook, and, very soon, audiobook. It’s a page-turner, say my advance readers. A complex story about female ambition and morality, how women save each other, and how an escape to a tropical paradise was trouble!
If you’ve been following my journey these past months, you know how much work it’s been to bring this book to the world. It hit bestseller status during pre-orders in January. It got Editor’s Pick from Booklife/Publisher’s Weekly. All huge thrills for me.
Now it’s out in the world and I’m asking: Did I do enough? What really worked, what felt the most authentic, what wore me out? We writers prepare for publication day for months, even years. Yet it can arrive with a sense of . . . well, anticlimax.
Heavy lifting is done. I’m feeling a routine now with the podcasts and interviews and bloggers sharing my book. I’m finishing up some giveaways and starting others. I have no idea how long to keep talking about this book, though. Yet I want to celebrate its advent into the world.
Parties stave off any sense of anticlimax. Writers don’t do this alone. It makes sense to share the celebration with those who helped get you here.
Virtual party: Sunday, April 21, at 2:00 p.m. eastern, on Zoom. Ginger Eager, a favorite fellow author, will be discussing creative risk and asking me questions about how my book came through its passage of risk to publication and bestseller status.
Because it’s my book’s birthday, here’s my gift to you. It’s an excerpt from my novel, the opening chapter where Elly Sorensen, a portrait artist with the unusual gift of seeing her subjects’ past and future, arrives on beautiful Bonaire island to finish a portrait commission for a wealthy man, only to find him missing.
I hope it keeps you on the edge of your seat!
Last Bets by Mary Carroll Moore excerpt: Chapter 1
Mary,
Congratulations!! I am so sorry that I cannot attend your virtual launch party today. I really hate to miss it! I am looking forward to reading Last Bets!
Fabulous!!
Congratulations 🥳