My first 5 STAR review to come in from Alice D. at Readers Favorite. She writes:

"Author Shannan Sinclair has created a first-rate science fiction series that will appeal tremendously to the modern world as a video game is at the story's center. The plot of "Dream Walker" flows smoothly to the end using dramatic episodes quite well. The use of different dimensions that can be entered through playing Demesne is original and integrated well into the storyline. Characters are well-created and totally believable, even when bad guys turn good and good guys are revealed to be the villains. Even minor characters like old Lange at the mental hospital are brilliantly woven into the text.

This book is an excellent addition to science fiction as it is original and demands readers who can think."

Yahoooooooooooo!

There is a long drawn out timing to the process of book publishing. Not that I expected to be a New York Times Bestseller overnight (although I do fantasize about that someday), but there is an uncomfortable waiting game to it all.

First, people have to be enticed to buy Dream Walker. The actual formula for getting a person to make that purchase decision is still unclear to me. Obviously, my friends and family buy it, and then maybe they tell their friends and family, but eventually, if the book is going to be a success, it has to break out of those inner circles.

So some people buy it...but then they have to actually read it. You know how that goes. I have a stack of "to-reads" a mile high I still have to get through. A book I purchased 3 years ago I ahve yet to open!

So the buyer has to be motivated enough to pick my book out of the stack and start reading. Again...I do not know how to make that happen, except maybe some magic voodoo shit which I may try after I post this blog.

Well apparently, I have some actual readers out there now!  They are 50 pages in--maybe 100. And I am starting to hear from them. They are asking questions about the ideas and concepts in the novel. They are starting to talk to me about my characters and the things they love about them. To hear them talk about Aislen and Raze and Sergeant Mathis as if they know them brings sheer joy to my heart. Only I have known them for all these years, so hearing others talk and feel the same way about them that I do is thrilling.

But in order for the book to be 'successful', the people who read Dream Walker have to take one extra step. They either have to tell another person (or 10 ;-)) about it, or rate and write a review about it. The original purchase of Dream Walker is a gift I truly appreciate...but word of mouth and reviews are PURE GOLD.

So I submitted Dream Walker to book bloggers and reviewers, wanting to get unbiased and honest opinions about the novel. And now that the reviews are coming in...I am ecstatic!

More to come!

Shannan

We live in the fiction.