Judith Summers's Blog
April 25, 2013
Dear Sister hits the No.1 spot on Kindle!
Where do old novels go when they die? The answer used to be the remainder bin –
or, in my case, the graveyard of the garden shed, where the few remaining hard copies of my first published novel, Dear Sister, had been gathering dust for a quarter of a century.
But this week Dear Sister became the No.1 bestseller in the Kindle UK's historical fiction chart - and no one is more surprised than I am!
Published way back in 1985, when I was in my thirties, the novel is a tale of sibling rivalry,the story of two Russian sisters caught up in the dramatic events of the twentieth century. Swept apart by an accident of fate on their way to America, they end up on opposite sides of the Atlantic, and are destined not to see each other again for sixty years.
As my first published book, it's always been close to my heart. Yet I'd long ago given up hope of it seeing the light of day again - after all, it was first published a quarter of a century ago, at a time when the word 'Amazon' only meant a South American river, and the internet was still in nappies.
But now, Dear Sister has been revived, thanks to eBooks. And it's a real thrill to me to know that Rosa and Esther, the characters I sweated blood to create when I was an aspiring young author, are no longer gathering dust between the pages of a few mildewed tomes in my garden shed, but are coming to life again for a whole new generation of readers.
or, in my case, the graveyard of the garden shed, where the few remaining hard copies of my first published novel, Dear Sister, had been gathering dust for a quarter of a century.
But this week Dear Sister became the No.1 bestseller in the Kindle UK's historical fiction chart - and no one is more surprised than I am!
Published way back in 1985, when I was in my thirties, the novel is a tale of sibling rivalry,the story of two Russian sisters caught up in the dramatic events of the twentieth century. Swept apart by an accident of fate on their way to America, they end up on opposite sides of the Atlantic, and are destined not to see each other again for sixty years.
As my first published book, it's always been close to my heart. Yet I'd long ago given up hope of it seeing the light of day again - after all, it was first published a quarter of a century ago, at a time when the word 'Amazon' only meant a South American river, and the internet was still in nappies.
But now, Dear Sister has been revived, thanks to eBooks. And it's a real thrill to me to know that Rosa and Esther, the characters I sweated blood to create when I was an aspiring young author, are no longer gathering dust between the pages of a few mildewed tomes in my garden shed, but are coming to life again for a whole new generation of readers.
