My book, The Girl in the Broken Mirror, was published by Troika Books on Tuesday
1st May!
It’s such an exciting time, and a very busy one too. But of course it’s
also a nervous time - the book is being read, which means that it’s being
reviewed, which means that I’m getting feedback. Luckily, most of the feedback
has been very good, and some of it has been amazing. The different views and
takes on the book have been interesting too.
One of the things that has really
surprised me is how the bloggers have really enjoyed the relationship between
Jay, the 15 year old protagonist in the book, and her mother. There seems to be
a general feeling that parent/teen relationships are too absent from teen and YA
books.
I’m in the middle of a fourteen-stop blog tour at the moment
with UKYA book bloggers. The blog tour started on 30th April. So I have had to
write fourteen separate guest blog posts, ranging from a soundtrack for the
book, a blog about my favourite authors, three Q&As, a couple of extracts
from the book, a blog about writing tips, another one about what inspired the
book, and two in-depth interviews!
The big publishing houses have a publicity team who contact
and arrange the blog tour for their new book. My publisher is a smaller
independent publisher, so I decided to arrange it myself. It definitely
requires a fair amount of work and lots and lots of emails – and that’s not
even taking into account the time needed to write all the guests posts.
I was also very lucky to be interviewed by The Asian Writer.
You can read the interview here THE ASIAN WRITER
And then I found out that The Girl in the Broken Mirror is
Love Reading 4 Kids YA Book of the Month for May, which is thrilling. If you’d
like to read the review, it’s here – LOVE READING 4 KIDS
Here’s my blog tour banner:
If you would like to read any of the posts, they’re all there,
and on Twitter and my Facebook page. Hope you enjoy them!
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7 comments:
Congratulations, Savita. I've heard good things about this novel!
Sounds extremely relevant, Savita. Hope it's read in India.
Thanks, Penny!
Sadly, it is relevant, Enid. I hope it's read everywhere and not just in India.
Congratulations! That sounds very good. My next MG book is out in June and is also with a very small independent publisher, so I know the worries about marketing. It seems to me you are already doing a good job, as I have already picked up via social media that this is a book to look out for.
Thank you so much, Anne! I really don't know how much more I can do, but it's great that you've heard about my book, so maybe I'm doing something right! Best of luck with your new book - I'm sure it'll be a huge success!
Congratulations and all good wishes on the book tour.
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