A Word of Thanks — and a Small Favor

Paris Reckoning has been out for a few days now, and something happened this week that I want to acknowledge directly: ten of you have posted reviews on Goodreads.

Ten may not sound like a headline number, but I know exactly what it represents. Each one is someone who read an early copy, finished it, and took the time to sit down and write a few sentences about a book that didn’t exist a year ago. That’s not nothing. If you’re one of the ten, thank you — genuinely. I read every one of them.

Here’s the small favor. Reviews on Amazon do something that Goodreads reviews don’t: they directly affect whether the book gets shown to new readers who’ve never heard of Sandi Brennan, and they factor into whether certain promotional programs will even consider the book down the line. Goodreads builds a reader community around a book. Amazon reviews build its visibility. I need both, and right now I have plenty of the first and very little of the second.

So if you’ve already left a few words on Goodreads, would you consider copying them over to Amazon? It takes about two minutes, and you don’t need to write anything new — the same review works in both places. A star rating and even a single honest sentence is enough to matter.

And if you haven’t read Paris Reckoning yet and were waiting for the ARC — that window has closed; the BookFunnel copy is no longer live. But the book is out now, and a review from a reader who bought it carries real weight too.

Either way, thank you for reading, and thank you for taking Sandi Brennan seriously enough to say so in public. That’s what keeps a series like this one alive.

— John