RIVAL RADIO has been out for almost a week already (can you believe it?) and it's #154 in the Amazon store with over 150 reviews already. I'm sitting here in Sacramento, absolutely blown away and full of gratitude!
RIVAL RADIO is 350 pages long, about 100,000 words, and let me tell you, all 33 chapters (plus epilogue, plus the bonus epilogue!) took a beautiful village. I want to light up those airwaves with my abundant thanks to the community that made this book possible:
Jessica Snyder, my story and line editor, who has a knack for plot, stakes and detail that continues to amaze me (and always leaves hilarious comments, sprinkled throughout the manuscript). This book had way less sleep-deprived voice mails involved then ON THE ROPES, but if it had I know she’d have listened to them – and responded with kind yet brilliant suggestions every time.
Faith, my best friend and also my story editor -- many of you have had the pleasure of meeting her at Indies Invade Philly, where she's always my assistant. We've been best friends since we were 18 years old, connected over our love of writing, storytelling and The X-Files, and let me tell you, is there anything better in this world than a friendship that spans half of your life?
Jodi, Julia, Bronwyn, Mel and Lizette -- my beta readers and sensitivity readers, who all manage to be incredibly stellar human beings while also making receiving revisions and feedback fun. How do they do it? I DON'T KNOW THEY ARE JUST PERFECT PEOPLE.
The giant support system that gets me through every book: the Hippie Chicks, Joyce and Tammy (also the literal best), Lucy, Claire, Pippa, LJ Evans, Avery Maxwell and Stephanie who continue to be some of the best people in our romance community. Plus the team at TWSS, who are directly responsible for the beautiful book you hold in your hand. When I say I couldn’t do this without them, I absolutely mean it.
In my acknowledgments, I mentioned that almost every memory I have as a kid involves the indie radio station WXPN playing in the background --- long summer days, long drives, concerts in Philly, festivals at the pier. My mom told me she sent a picture of it to my brother, who wrote back that he and his fiancée have WXPN playing in the background every day in their house too.
Radio stations, man. What would we do without 'em?
