Déjà View Featured on Times Square Billboard

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Déjà View Featured on Times Square Billboard

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Today, May 30th, my sophomore novel Déjà View was presented on an electronic billboard in Times Square. As part of winning First Place in my category of Young Adult – Literary and Coming of Age in The Spring 2024 BookFest Awards, the cover of my book and several others were displayed on the Nasdaq Board at the corner of Broadway and 43rd Street in an ad for the BookFest Awards competition. Even though my debut novel, Danger Peak, already received this honor last year, it was no less thrilling to be part of Times Square history again. In fact, it was personally more gratifying because before Déjà View was released, I really didn’t know how it was going to be received. In fact, I was quite nervous about it. (And if you don’t believe me, check out old blogs just before the book came out.) In my first novel, I tried to please everyone, packing the story with as much action and humor as I could and including a happy ending. If you’ve read Déjà View, you know that’s not the case with this book. It’s much darker, a little twisted at times, and, not to give too much away, it doesn’t necessarily have a happy ending. With this novel, I wanted to write a book basically for an audience of one: myself. In other words, I wanted to write something I would really enjoy, and to hell with everyone else if they didn’t like it. Fortunately, that wasn’t the case, as Déjà View has received unanimously positive reviews and won several awards.

I also want to give a shout-out to my fellow award winners, in the off-chance that they’re reading this: Congrats, you guys!

You can see photos and videos of the promotion below. Enjoy!

If you listen closely to the last video, you can hear my oldest daughter asking me, “So like they’re digging up a time capsule?” (She thought it was coal.)

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In other Déjà View news, I wanted to thank everyone who participated in my free Kindle giveaway this past Memorial Day weekend. Because of your interest, for the first time ever, Déjà View rose to number 5 in the category of Coming of Age Fiction, number 11 in the category of Coming of Age Fantasy, and number 45 in the huge category of Science Fiction, just a few spots behind George Orwell’s masterpiece 1984, one of my favorite novels of all time.