#1 Rule for Newsletters: Verify Your Reply-To

Here’s another important life lesson for the writer/self-publisher. If you have a newsletter of any kind, make sure your reply-to email is accurate. Thanks for my mother for pointing out she couldn’t reply to my newsletter email. It turned out I was using an invalid email address.

That also brings up the point that if you ever wonder why your subscribers are not engaging with you through your email newsletter, it could simply be because there’s a typo somewhere preventing email communication. I certainly made that mistake.

Anyway, it’s fixed now, so all you curious fans wondering why I never responded, that is why and I wholeheartedly apologize.

Thanks.

Brief Apology

For those who happened to read the previous somewhat vindictive version of the post on the virtual tour, I whole-heartedly apologize for my pettiness. It was unfair of me to blame people for their comments, especially given they did take the time to leave one. They didn’t have to. And honestly the cover IS great. My team did an incredible job, both with it and all the other covers and images on this site. You should really check them out. (Forgive the Marahspand map though, that is all me :} )

The truth is I am proud of that cover, and so I shouldn’t be angry for people letting me know. Regardless of the intent, a positive comment is a positive comment. And if it happens to lead to more positive conversation or interest in my other writings, then even better!

So keep up the compliments on the cover, and if you have time, pick up a copy of the novel as well. I promise you won’t regret it!

Thanks.

P.S. For a taste of what the novel has to offer, check out its prologue here.

P.P.S. For those who are coming new to these blog posts and wondering “WTF?” trust that I was in a rotten place before and have since come out of it. These things happen for writers; we are only human after all, regardless of what our characters may have you believe.