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One of the real pleasures of my work in building Kindle Nation Daily and related efforts over the past couple of years has been the opportunity it has provided me to help identify writing of distinction, in some cases to help publish it, and in all cases to help connect the authors with Kindle readers. So there was no need for author (and Kindle Nation citizen) Rena Diane Walmsley to send in this note with a request that we share it with everyone in Kindle Nation:

Dear Steve,


I just wanted to express my heartfelt gratitude both to you and to all of your readers for the interest shown in my novel Girl on Fire this week.


In just three days since your nice mention of my book in Tuesday’s Kindle Nation newsletter, readers have downloaded hundreds of copies sent it soaring into the top 500 on the Kindle Store bestsellers list. Thank you all so much!

Girl on Fire will be out in paperback before the end of month, but the interest shown by Kindle readers would be a really great start for any author’s first novel.


Sincerely,
Rena

But you’re very welcome, Rena. You’ve written a terrific first novel, as I said when I first posted about it earlier this week, and I am proud that you chose Harvard Perspectives Press to be your publishers and Kindle Nation Daily to help you spread the word. And since you didn’t say it, let me add that you not only cracked the top 500, but you’re #3 on the Erotica bestsellers list and in the top 10 on the Romantic Suspense list!

Plus, I’ll admit it: it’s not every day I get to rub shoulders with a Miss America contestant!