Hello Subscribers!
Welcome to my new subscribers, and a warm greeting to my OG subscribers as well. I’m so grateful to have you here.
This is my pre-publication newsletter with a round-up of all the essentials for All You Have To Do Is Call, which hits the stands on September 19, in every format (hardback, ebook, audio).
I’m doing live events in Massachusetts, Chicago, and Northern & Southern California at the end of September. See my Events Page for dates and tickets.
If you can come to an event, please do, and please purchase your book/s at the event.
If you cannot make an event—or if you can’t wait for that event!—please consider pre-ordering the book from your favorite book retailer. Pre-orders are crucial to the success of every book, and I so appreciate your help in getting the sales ball rolling and thus increasing the visibility of the novel. Here are all the buy links.
On that same note, I’d be so grateful if you would share your enthusiasm by purchasing the book as a gift, inviting friends to events, forwarding this newsletter, sharing my posts on social media, and generally letting people know about this novel about women’s friendship, activism, and solidarity.
Reviews are coming in, and I’ve been honored by the positive reaction so far. It received a starred review from Booklist, and Kirkus called it “a character-rich story of risky, remarkable activism that resonates more strongly than ever.” Publisher’s Weekly interviewed me and reviewed the book as my “impressive latest.”
If you want to stay up to date with the good news about the book, I generally post reviews, interviews, podcasts, etc, to Instagram.
Congrats to Kitty Blocher who won the subscriber giveaway in August! I’ll be doing another soon, so stay tuned – this is one of the ways I like to thank you for subscribing.
If you are one of my free subscribers and are thinking of becoming a paid subscriber, let me give you a little more information. As a paid subscriber:
You get notified of my essay-posts as I make them (never more than once a week). Recently I’ve posted about Taylor Swift and being an anti-snob; my end of summer blues; writer’s block; an interview with Natasha Lester. Those are all available to free subscribers, but you might not know about unless you become a paid subscriber or check the sandcastles homepage often for updates.
You’ll get access to posts that are for paid subscribers only, like the Original Ending of The Paris Bookseller.
Once the book launches and I have a little more bandwidth, I plan to offer more paid subscriber perks like live chats, writing sessions, and written content.
That’s it for now! I hope you’re all enjoying the end of summer and start of fall. My daughter and I are going back to school (her to 7thgrade and me to teach popular fiction at Emerson), and I’m looking forward to blazers and sweaters, pumpkin spice lattes and donuts, and apple picking. Feel free to leave a comment here or on other posts – I love hearing from you!
Warmly,
Kerri
Great interview! So happy to see the early praise for the book and wishing I could make it to one of your events!