K. Ritz's blog
The giveaway for Sheever’s Journal, Diary of a Poison Master (SJ) ended on Saturday April 4, 2020.
I want to thank all the folks at Goodreads for hosting book giveaways. It’s such a clever way for a new author to gain a measure of exposure for a book. I also want to thank the folks at SPBRA who told me about Goodreads and helped me with the giveaway. Most of all, however, I want to thank every person who signed up for a chance to win a copy of SJ. I wish I could send a book to each of you. But I can’t afford the cost.
Armed with a list of the ten people selected to receive SJ, yesterday morning I cleared off the kitchen table and assembled what I needed. Ten books. Ten labels for ten shipping boxes. Ten swaths of bubble wrap to protect the books. Ten letters. Ten wee cards with a picture of the cover of SJ that could be used as bookmarks, and so forth.
Ten doesn’t sound like many, and it isn’t. Yet I was glad I’d agreed to only give away ten books. My handwriting is so poor that I practiced signing my name a few times before signing the books. Then one by one, box by box, I put them together. My husband was up before I had finished. I’d downed so many cups of coffee by then that I was shaky.
Sounds terrible? No, not terrible. Tedious perhaps, since I was fretting about mixing up the labels on the boxes and names on the letters. But also fun. The idea that 10 people will read SJ sparked a tiny bit of joy. And they were from all over the country. California, Kansas, Florida, New York, Ohio, Texas, South Carolina, Kentucky, Alabama, and so on. People I’ll never know, will never see, and likely never hear from will read what I wrote. That was exciting – and also terrifying. What if they hate the book? Then I’ll pray I never hear from them! Ha.
Now that the giveaway is behind me, I can return to the struggle of writing my next book. Plus spring is slowly coming to the Northeast. Time to go out, dig in the dirt and plant peas.
My thanks again to everyone. --- K
I want to thank all the folks at Goodreads for hosting book giveaways. It’s such a clever way for a new author to gain a measure of exposure for a book. I also want to thank the folks at SPBRA who told me about Goodreads and helped me with the giveaway. Most of all, however, I want to thank every person who signed up for a chance to win a copy of SJ. I wish I could send a book to each of you. But I can’t afford the cost.
Armed with a list of the ten people selected to receive SJ, yesterday morning I cleared off the kitchen table and assembled what I needed. Ten books. Ten labels for ten shipping boxes. Ten swaths of bubble wrap to protect the books. Ten letters. Ten wee cards with a picture of the cover of SJ that could be used as bookmarks, and so forth.
Ten doesn’t sound like many, and it isn’t. Yet I was glad I’d agreed to only give away ten books. My handwriting is so poor that I practiced signing my name a few times before signing the books. Then one by one, box by box, I put them together. My husband was up before I had finished. I’d downed so many cups of coffee by then that I was shaky.
Sounds terrible? No, not terrible. Tedious perhaps, since I was fretting about mixing up the labels on the boxes and names on the letters. But also fun. The idea that 10 people will read SJ sparked a tiny bit of joy. And they were from all over the country. California, Kansas, Florida, New York, Ohio, Texas, South Carolina, Kentucky, Alabama, and so on. People I’ll never know, will never see, and likely never hear from will read what I wrote. That was exciting – and also terrifying. What if they hate the book? Then I’ll pray I never hear from them! Ha.
Now that the giveaway is behind me, I can return to the struggle of writing my next book. Plus spring is slowly coming to the Northeast. Time to go out, dig in the dirt and plant peas.
My thanks again to everyone. --- K
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