When Shadows Fall's

First Birthday!

Guess what today is? It's June 5th! Also known as When Shadows Fall's birthday and the anniversary of me becoming an official author. 🥳

(Technically, the book came out on June 2nd as I couldn't control the exact release day, but since June 5th is the day I officially announced it, we'll stick with that!)

So come on in, have some cake, check out the birthday goodies, and enjoy celebrating this semi-momentous occasion with me! 🥳

(I had far too much fun and spent far too much time making this very silly promo image for today!)

Email Archive Bonus Material

To celebrate one year since WSF's release, I thought I would put together some bonus material for you!

Books change a lot during the writing process. Characters get added and deleted, names and locations change, scenes are rearranged and rewritten, and so on. The story gets better with each pass, but have you ever wondered what these stories are like before all the revising and editing? The following excerpt of my first ever partial draft of WSF (three chapters long) should provide some interesting insight into where this book started and how it evolved over time!

Prefer pictures to words? I've got you covered with a lovely little photo gallery of the cover art process for WSF. These pictures include all the main iterations of the cover, from concept to sketch to final draft.

First Partial Draft of WSF

Cover Art Photo Gallery

Birthday Sale!

After making all this hullabaloo about When Shadows Fall's birthday, it only seems right to put it on sale for a while! Both eBook and print copy will be cheaper for the rest of June, so if you haven't grabbed a copy yet, what are you waiting for? Go get it now!

Amazon

Subscriber Q&A

As promised, I've put together a subscriber exclusive Q&A. I didn't get many questions for it, so I borrowed one from my author questionnaire with Your Paper Quest and a few from an upcoming interview I'm doing with Witty and Sarcastic Book Club on mental health in fantasy. Her interview will go live during the last week of July in honour of Self-published Authors Appreciation Week, but I got permission to use some of the questions for this Q&A in the meantime!

Subscriber Q&A

Stats for WSF

In honour of When Shadows Fall's birthday, I thought I'd share some stats about the book's first year of publication!

Book Sales

Amazon (print):154
Amazon (eBook): 74
Author Copies: 91
KU Page Reads: 3,357 (approximately 7 reads of WSF)
Total Copies Sold: 319 (326 including KU reads)

Reviews and Ratings

Goodreads Reviews: 20
Goodreads Ratings: 38 (4.68 / 5 star)
Amazon Reviews (Canada): 24
Amazon Ratings (Canada): 34 (4.8 / 5 star)

Awards

SBA Finalist for Fiction Award
SBA Finalist for Regina Book Award
Indie Ink Finalist for Best Setting
Indie Ink Finalist for Best Friendship
Indie Ink Finalist for Writing the Future We Need: Mental Health Representation

Other Successes

two book signings
one reading
one school presentation
included in the YPQ UK subscription box
available in four book stores

Thank You and Closing

Thank you for joining me on this happy day! It may seem like a silly thing to hold a birthday for a book (and it is), but after a decade of dreaming, I just couldn't help but celebrate my first year as a real author!

I hope you've enjoyed some of the "goodies" I prepared (nothing too special, I know!), but if not, allow me to offer you some kitty pictures as compensation.

Shamelessly posing my cat with When Shadows Fall for promo pics.

Cutie!

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