Time to bare  (almost) all.

 Yesterday I had a heart-to-heart with a best-selling thriller writer.  Since we agreed to keep our  candid conversation anonymous, I will refer to her here only as "Madame X". 

Madame X and I discussed my goal of becoming a full-time writer  in 9.5 years.  (I’m six months into my 10 year plan!)  Madame X  strongly believes that maximizing  online reader reviews of One Murder More  is the most important step in that plan; that reader reviews are more important even than books sold when starting out!  She explained this is because my likely "next reader"— the one who is considering my book, but uncertain—will usually make that decision largely based on reader reviews! 

Many of you have  already written  a reader review for me on Amazon—thank you!! If not, please consider this a heartfelt plea to do so. And if you gave  a copy of the book to someone else, would you please forward this request  to them and see if they are willing to leave a review? (You/they don’t need to have purchased  my book on Amazon  to review it there.) 

http://www.amazon.com/One-Murder-More-Kris-Calvin/dp/1941758975/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1463751912&sr=1-1&keywords=one+murder+more

Instructions: go to the above link (or when on Amazon  put One Murder More in the search bar), scroll   to "leave a review", choose a star total and (optional) leave a few sentences about what you like (or don’t like) about  the book. (Please don’t let concerns about "what you might  say" stop you from leaving a review, star totals alone are  helpful!)

(If you are a member of Goodreads, please  choose a star total there,  or copy and paste your Amazon review on GR, that’s a big help, too!) 

I’ve been stalled at 74 reviews for several months and am hoping to get over 80 this week! Would you please help?

Meanwhile, I’m still writing!  If you’re a writer, I hope you are, too. If you’re a reader, happy reading!

Kris   

Greetings you magnificent human beings, 

Today is the last day of the campaign so I thought I’d take a minute to thank you all for carrying Beyond the Code to Quill. I’ll do my best in forging through the mostly unknown (to me) world of publishing to bring you the best book Beyond the Code can be. 

The selling campaign of Beyond the Code was started kind of by accident before I was really prepared but I always strived to do the best I could. Thank you for your patience and support as I stumbled like a drunken four year old through the world of crowd funding. Your kindness and pulling together to help me with my dream has touched my heart in a way you couldn’t imagine. 

We are at 257 orders so I’ll let you what. If we make it to 260 orders by the end of this campaign I will post the next chapter and I’ll do another prize draw to end things off right.

Thank you all again for bringing me this far. I’ll keep you posted on what comes next. Brave new world.