Have you heard the news? Have you seen the reviews? Diary of a Heartbreak is starting to get noticed!

There is no greater feeling as an author than knowing your words have moved someone, that you’ve managed to caress their heart or tickle their soul. It is why reviews mean so much. When someone reads your work and then writes a public declaration, it sets your heart aflutter. It helps quell the acid tongued craven of self doubt that clings with elongated claws to your screen, chittering away and reading your work upside down as it points out all the plot holes and misspellings and grammatical mistakes and oh my gosh did you use ‘and’ more than once? Yahooligan!

It also helps for those days when you’re writing in a frenetic blur, feeling as if you have found a loophole in the universe, tinges of guilt as you relish being able to pursue your dreams. For it doesn’t matter how successful you are, or how free you claim to be, there is always a part of you that feels better when someone else admires your craft. It’s human.

So please, review a book today. Whatever you’re reading, jump onto your favourite social media platform and talk about it. Authors spend years balancing the real world and imaginary ones, trying to succeed in both, while keeping track of who is who where and when. If you’re in need of a good book to review, you’re welcome to try Diary of a Heartbreak. As Eugen Bacon, editor of Aurealis Magazine, described it on Goodreads (along with a 5 star rating!)…

Exquisite heartbreak. Each closing line a knife edge.

She’s not the only one giving it 5 stars either!

Now if you pardon me, I’m off to float on cloud nine for a while that such a well read readers love my work.