Holy hell, Manfred!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A year ago, KC Wells shared bits of An Unlocked Heart with a new writer. She asked his opinion on some things. Then asked if he’d consider talking with her while she planned Trusting Thomas, the second in the series. The new writer was humbled, and said yes because he loved the characters so much. After plotting the book out, Ms. Wells asked if this author (oh hell, it was me, I admit it) would consider writing a book with her. My immediate reply was no. She was multi-published already. Had a spate of reviews under her belt. I had one short story and was working on a novel.

Then I had the idea of how to make our differences work for us and suggested it to her. Her reply: Duh. Of course we can make it work. You need to believe more in yourself.

Thus began the plotting for Someone to Keep Me. The story of Scott and Ben. We hoped it would find an audience. I was afraid that teaming with a relative unknown would hurt the chances for the book to  do well, but the day it came out we hit #1 in Australia, the UK, Germany, Canada! We also hit #3 in the United States (against some amazingly stiff competition…heh, I said stiff).

Today I found out we hit lists in Italy and Spain!

I’m so glad that KC didn’t give up on me. Didn’t think that teaming up with a noob was a bad thing. This book put me over the top into happiness. Then, just as I was putting this together, I found this: We actually hit the lists in freaking JAPAN!

So apparently we’re doing pretty damn well. And I’m kind of doubting we could be much prouder.

(Okay, fine. For argument sake, we’d be over the moon if we hit #1 in the US, too, but we’re not greedy.)