My First Book Launch

I know many of you received an early copy of Protect My Heart because you are awesome and nominated it for Kindle Scout. (Thank you for doing that, by the way!) But yesterday was the official release day for that book. It was my first book birthday! I have dreamed about that moment since 2012 and it was so great to finally get there!

My goal for Protect My Heart was to get in the top 100 of any category on Amazon. It’s my first book after all, so I’m not super well known yet. This is a snapshot of where it ranks this morning.

It not only made it in the top 100, it made it to #13!

And then I saw this…

I may or may not have run around my house with each of my kids on my back for a victory dance when I saw it had reached the #2 Hot New Release for its category on Amazon. People are actually buying something I wrote!

Needless to say, it was a great day for me!

Instead of having a big launch party, I opted to have a nice dinner out with the main people in my life–my reason for going on this crazy adventure in the first place: my family.