SOULMATCH is now on Netgalley! (+more!)
I’m officially only four months from publication now, and things are really be picking up! Here’s a quick review of everything that happened this month…
Thanks to last month’s ARC giveaway, Soulmatch hit 5000 “want to reads” on Goodreads! I’m actually up to around 5700 now! AMAZING!
2. I submitted the final pass pages for Soulmatch! It’s out of my hands now! If you receive your final copy and find a bunch of typos, for heaven’s sake, DO NOT TELL ME! I’ve read that thing so many dang times now. If an extra comma made it through, I tip my hat to it. Way to persist, you little brat, you.
3. I visited my publishing team in NYC! The entire day was pure magic. Watch the highlight reel on TikTok or Instagram.
4. I joined with six of my fellow debuts to do a print ARC giveaway! If you’re seeing this before April 3rd, you still have time to enter! Go to this Instagram post to enter!
5. Soulmatch is now on Netgalley! Netgalley is a website where book lovers and reviewers can request to read an advance e-book of future releases. My publisher picks and chooses which requests to approve. I have no control over that. BUT I did send them the names/emails of my street team for approval!
***If you request or win an ARC of Soulmatch, please keep in mind it’s gone through FOUR rounds of revisions since the ARC copy was approved. The final version will read much more cleanly as I’ve tweaked HUNDREDS of sentences since then! (The story remains the same, though!!!) It’s terrifying to have a not-perfect version circulating in the wild now, but I’m SO grateful to Soulmatch’s early readers and reviewers!**
What’s next?
Now that we’ve finalized the Soulmatch manuscript, we’ll probably be choosing an audiobook narrator! As someone who primarily reads books through Audible and Libby, this might be the part of the process I’m most excited about!
Psst. If you haven’t requested Soulmatch on Libby yet, watch this video to see how easy it is! I would love it if Soulmatch is added to the shelves of libraries across the US!
I will receive revision notes for my 2nd novel in mid-April. Praying it’s not a heavy lift!!!
WHAT I’M READING
Because I was back on deadline, I haven’t read much this month! I finished up Jessica James’s FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY, which was exactly the read I needed. I have a couple chapters left in Suzanne Collins’s SUNRISE ON THE REAPING and am hoping to read more of my fellow debut’s books following that! My agent just sent me the ARC for Veronica Bane’s DIFFICULT GIRLS, and my editor promised to send me Chloe Gong’s COLDWIRE! Eep!
