Friday, March 5, 2010

Infatuated with this review!

I've been blessed with so many wonderful reviews in spite of not having the sort of following an established author would have that it's always exciting to get a review from an author who is established. Jon Guenther is just that and then some. I would elaborate but his newly designed I-hate-you-for-being-so-talented website at www.guenfire.com says it way better than I can. ;)

Okay, Sue so why so infatuated with this review?

Because Jon Guenther helped answer a lot of questions I had. See, I thought that if I simply waited a little longer, earned a few more grand reviews from high profile authors, sold a few more books that maybe those larger publishers and specifically CBA and ECPA affiliated publishers, since their audience seem to enjoy my work so much, would actually respond to my queries with something other than, "I'm sorry. You're not what we're looking for right now?"

So how did Jon answer your question?

Well, I'll tell you. This grand and established author's agent at the time, got him a book deal with the founding publisher of CBA itself, Moody Press. Wow! Now we're talking, right? Nope. Shortly before the book went to press, Moody called agent Jon's agent and backed out of the contract. No reason but they did let him keep his advance.

So Jon did what he had to do to keep his story alive. He self-published through Amazon's POD Create Space. So now instead of flooding every CBA/larger Christian Bookstore with the absolutely best book since The Shack (actually better) it sits relatively unnoticed in POD hell. I know, right?

So welcome to the ranks of the unsung writers Jon. Thank you for giving this relatively new author a reason to keep writing.

Oh yeah, that's why I'm infatuated with this review! ;) 

Soul Runner is about Christians under persecution. Some irony don't you think.

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