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(Some) Reviews Are In!

4/10/2018

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Good morning, Readers!
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I used this fantastic image by feig-art on deviantart.com only because it's wonderfully creepy. It has nothing to do with anything that this post is about. The artist has tonnes more stuff, and it's really good. Click the creepy image to check out their work!
In case you did not know, Skylark is now up on Goodreads.com.  And already it's gotten a couple of reviews.  Full disclosure about these reviews, they're from friends who read the almost-final version of the manuscript, before even the publisher did.

​The first is from awesome author and fantastic human Cait Gordon:
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I had given Cait the manuscript for a more thorough edit (she's an editor, guys.  I highly recommend her.  You can check out her services here.)  Since editing it, she's become a huge cheerleader for the book.  I appreciate her so, so much.

The following is from my friend PY.  It's quite a lengthy review (holy crap, PY! Thanks so much) so it required two screen shots to cover it all.
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I loved Skylark a lot.  However, after countless rejections, I had started to lose faith in it.  Maybe it's utter shit, and I am proud of a steaming pile of it.  I knew PY liked sci fi, and so I asked him to read Skylark and give me an honest opinion; should I give up on this story?

It was an emphatic 'no' and so I sent it off to Renaissance Press, who have kindly agreed to publish it.

Last night, PY wrote up that incredibly detailed and flattering review while on my God of War live stream.  It was a lovely thing to wake up to.

Thanks to PY and Cait both for their constant encouragement.  Skylark would likely be collecting dust in a drawer somewhere without them.  Now it's going to be published in twelve days.

I'm so excited, and I really hope that it's as well received by people I don't know as it has been by people I do know.

Right, I have work to do.

Ciao!
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