Celebration Post! USA TODAY!

Yay! I'm a USA Today Bestselling Author!

I'm going to keep this relatively short, as I plan on doing a How-To post later on but I wanted to pop in to celebrate hitting such a cool milestone. Not only did I manage to successfully make the run, but I also dreamed up, organized, and ran the entire project. I feel super accomplished, even scored a publisher credit but most of all I learned a TON about book launches. I mean, if you can launch a book to 5000 copies in one week, what else do you really need? I'm a bit exhausted because it really was as brutal as they say and far more difficult than I originally anticipated. We were running behind our target numbers nearly the entire run and we'd anticipated falling short of the list, so this is a wonderful surprise.

Special thank you to everyone who supported our run. Including those who bought the set, shared or liked a promo image or cheered us on through launch week. <3

Huge thank you to Melissa Storm, our genius list-run consultant and our PA Madeleine from MAD SKILLZ who put in far more hours than any reasonable human, and shout out to the other authors in the set for their promo efforts and lending their talent to this vampire collection.

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