WHY SEPTEMBER 13TH (for my new book release)?
September 13th is not an insignificant or random date–it’s my mother’s birthday and the day my wife and I got engaged. And, while my new book is dedicated to my wife, Jules, the fact that the date is my mother’s birthday is why I choose it as the release date for my new novella–The Peculiar Affliction of Thomas Wade Duncan.
My mom would have been 90 years old today. Sadly, she passed in 2013–four years before I published my first book. She not only was a voracious reader, but during my school years she was the first reader and first editor of all my written work. It always saddens me to think that she never saw my first published book, let alone my seventh as she was such an enthusiastic supporter of my creative projects.
As I was finishing work on this new novella, I was thinking about a publication date that was distant enough for me to build up a little marketing momentum and get some advanced readers copies of the book so that they could read it in time to drop some reviews on day one. Initially, I was looking at September 1st–but that just didn’t seem like quite enough lead time. Then, I realized my mother’s birthday was coming up and that it fell at just the right time–so the release was scheduled for the 13th.
I hope you’ll consider purchasing the Kindle or paperback edition (or both!) of my latest book.
