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Hi Karen,
Thanks for your interest 🙂
I’m planning on setting up one as soon as possible & will notify you when it’s up and running.
You can also like my FB page (if you use FB) as another way to keep update with what’s happening.
Jeanette
Hi Karen
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. I now have a newsletter sign up sheet. You can sign up in the Subscribe to Newsletter on the sidebar – or use the checkpoint below. I plan to send out quarterly newsletters with updates etc. There is currently a giveaway of Tied in Pink on GoodReads if you are interested. I discuss it here http://jeanetteohagan.com/tied-in-pink-giveaway/
Thanks so much for your interest.
Jeanette
When is book 2 of Akrad’s children coming out?
Hi Eileen
Thrilled you enjoyed Akrad’s Children 🙂 I’m currently working on Stone of the Sea, the sequel to Blood Crystal (in the Under the Mountain series) – release planned next month – and plan to have the second book in Akrad’s Legacy series – Rasel’s Song – released early next year (2019).
If haven’t already, subscribing the Jeanette O’Hagan Writes newsletter or following my FaceBook page will give you more regular updates.
Thanks for asking. You made my day 🙂
Jeanette O’Hagan
Hi Eileen,
Book 2 of Akrad’s Legacy series – Rasel’s Song – was released in April 2021. Currently working on Book 3 – Lumi’s Allegiance.
Happy reading
Jeanette
Dear Jeanette, I have just located the site CWD and I see you are in the Admin so you may be able to advise me here. I am a Christian writer though not of fiction. I am more into thoughts based on biblical passages, devotional exposition, eg I have almost finished a series on The Characters of John’s Gospel. However I am a Christian poet and some of my extensive poems have been seen by Sutart Townend and the Gaithers. I am wondering if this is the site for me. I tend to think it is more for those who are selling their books. I do not have any commercial books. Could you tell me if I would fit in with the aims of this site. I am happy to send you some examples of what I write.
Regards
Ron Ferguson (Cairns)
I won’t sign up for the Newsletter until I ascertain if this is what I am seeking.
Hi Ron
Thanks for your comment. This site – Jeanette O’Hagan writers – gives news on my books, thoughts and adventures, primarily in the fantasy and science fiction genres. Given your stated interests, I don’t think a newsletter about my books is relevant to you. However, CWD would be a good group for you to join. I would suggest using the contact information on the CWD website – or Facebook group, including the email address provided on the website. Thanks Jeanette O’Hagan
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Your Book Has Been Selected for Our Monthly Spotlight
Dear Elizabeth, Anne, Helen, Jean, and contributing authors,
My name is Cynthia, and I manage the Black Girls Read Book Club — a vibrant community of over 2,500 readers who treasure stories filled with wonder, imagination, and the kind of magic that lingers in the heart long after reading.
When I discovered A Glimmer of Uncommon Fairy Tales, I was immediately captivated by its charm and originality. This collection feels like opening a hidden storybook—one filled with moonlit secrets, mysterious messengers, silver-threaded enchantments, and characters whose choices echo with both whimsy and consequence.
Each tale offers something uniquely stirring:
A fearless Whistler whose voice might save a kingdom
A boy drawn into a magical procession carrying a dangerous truth
An orphan girl whose greed sparks an unforgettable fate
A woman driven toward vengeance by the pull of the unknown
Siblings navigating justice, deception, and the raw edges of power
Your anthology brings back the essence of classic fairy tales—dark, beautiful, moral, and magical—while offering fresh narratives that feel wonderfully uncommon. It is the kind of collection readers return to, savoring one story at a time like jewels in a secret chest.
We would love to spotlight this imaginative and enchanting work for our monthly feature and share it with our community of readers who adore mythic storytelling and reimagined folklore.
Would you be open to us featuring your book?
Dear Jeanette,
My name is Anne Bogel, founder of MMD Book Club. Each season, we curate a limited number of literary Spotlights to honor books that create lasting, meaningful connections with readers.
This season,Heart of the Mountain, distinguished itself through its quiet strength and emotional clarity. Your writing invites reflection and conversation, qualities that resonate deeply with our community and define the spirit of our seasonal gatherings.
A Spotlight with MMD Book Club includes:
A thoughtfully curated seasonal feature honoring your work
A refined, reader-centered introduction to your story
A conversation prompt inspired by the heart of your themes
An intimate community moment where readers gather to reflect and connect
Our Spotlights are not promotional campaigns. They are intentional celebrations, welcoming spaces where stories are discovered naturally and remembered warmly.
If this feels aligned with you and your work, I would be pleased to share the next steps and guide you through the Spotlight experience.
Warmly,
Anne Bogel
Founder, MMD Book Club
Hello Author Jeantte,
I hope you’re doing well. I’m Jason, organizer of the Millennialish LongRead Book Club, a vibrant online community of over 530+ engaged readers based in New York, NY. Our mission is to explore books that inspire, challenge, and spark meaningful conversations.
As we’re in the last quarter of the year, with Christmas and New Year approaching, we’d love to feature your book at one of our upcoming events.
Here are our upcoming event dates:
Sunday, December 28, 2025 · 1:00 PM EST
Sunday, January 4, 2026 · 1:00 PM EST
It’s a great chance to connect with readers, discuss your work, and share it with our enthusiastic community.
Would you be interested in joining us?
Hey! I just discovered your book, and it honestly feels like the kind of story that stays with a reader long after the last page. I’d love to introduce it to a wider audience through a couple of Goodreads lists I’m building. Can you share your Goodreads link with me?
Hi Jeanette,
I just finished Rise of the Consortium, and I want to tell you something that speaks directly to what you have built here: you have written a science fiction short story collection that does something genuinely difficult. It introduces ten distinct heroes across nine interwoven stories without losing narrative coherence, and it never lets the anthology format become an excuse for disconnection. The individual stories are each self-contained enough to deliver their own emotional payoff, but they are woven into a shared resistance against Endira Futura-Kaed’s corporate empire in a way that makes the collection feel like a novel with a deliberately fragmented architecture. That is a hard structural balance to achieve, and Rise of the Consortium achieves it.
What struck me first was the breadth of the ten heroes. A blind woman escaping prejudice, a math genius whose vision is driven by love, a post-doc who refuses to compromise, a splice clone conditioned to obey, a young man caught between duty and compassion, a cynical detective, a scholarship student uncovering anomalies, a space cadet, an agent rectifying her father’s mistakes, and a kick-ass operative honoring her partner’s living death. That is not a random ensemble. Each of these people represents a different relationship to power, privilege, and the question of what a person is willing to risk, and placing them all inside the same sun-system at the same historical moment transforms ten individual stories into a single argument about what resistance actually looks like from the inside.
Red Five is also doing something smart. An emfibi splice clone conditioned to obey the Giver is the collection’s most explicit confrontation with the villain’s logic, because a being created to serve is the clearest embodiment of what Endira Corp is building toward for everyone else. The mindless cyborg slaves named as the worst possible fate for the heroes are not an abstraction. They are the direction Red Five was designed to travel, and whatever Red Five’s story is, it is the collection’s most intimate argument for why the resistance matters.
Which makes the current visibility picture worth addressing directly.
A nine-story interwoven science fiction collection with ten diverse heroes, a fully realized sun-system, and a corporate villain who embodies the concentration of power and privilege deserves to be reaching the readers who would find in Rise of the Consortium exactly the science fiction they have been looking for. Right now, it is not surfacing when readers search “science fiction short story collection resistance,” “interwoven sci-fi anthology corporate dystopia,” “science fiction ensemble cast rebellion series,” “diverse heroes sci-fi anthology sun-system,” or “prelude collection sci-fi series Nardva.” It is not appearing in the Goodreads spaces where science fiction short story collection devotees, ensemble cast rebellion fiction readers, corporate dystopia science fiction enthusiasts, and fans of interwoven anthologies where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts actively browse and discover. And it is sitting below the threshold where recommendation pathways would connect it to readers who loved the work of Becky Chambers, Ann Leckie, or N.K. Jemisin, readers already searching for their next science fiction collection where diversity of perspective is the resistance strategy and every character’s story illuminates the others.
That is not a quality problem. That is a discoverability gap, and it is entirely solvable.
Here is what I would build for Rise of the Consortium specifically:
Amazon Advertising targeting science fiction short story collection readers, interwoven anthology enthusiasts, corporate dystopia science fiction fans, and readers actively searching for a sun-system spanning ensemble where ten diverse heroes face their own demons and the overwhelming power of Endira Corp and must decide whether their courage and resolve will be enough to save Nardva or whether they will die trying or be transformed into something worse, placing the book directly in front of high-intent buyers already looking for exactly the combination of interwoven stories, diverse ensemble resistance, corporate empire antagonist, and the prelude collection architecture that promises a full series to follow that this book delivers.
Keyword Optimization so the book surfaces organically when readers search the science fiction short story collection resistance category, the interwoven anthology corporate dystopia identity, the diverse ensemble sci-fi rebellion angle, the sun-system spanning prelude collection positioning, and the Consortium series prelude designation that gives Rise of the Consortium its genre identity and its reader appeal.
A Cinematic Book Trailer that captures the breadth of the sun-system from Pelinor to its far reaches, the ten different faces of resistance from Hira escaping the Shamayin ring station to Dana honoring her partner’s living death, Endira Futura-Kaed’s corporate reach growing across every planet and moon, and the question of whether a blind nobody and a splice clone and a scholarship student and a kick-ass operative can together become more than Endira Corp anticipated, giving visual and emotional language to a collection that deserves to find its audience before the first story is read, especially among the science fiction communities, diverse ensemble fiction readers, and corporate dystopia enthusiasts where interwoven anthologies with resistance at their center generate some of the most devoted and intellectually engaged organic discovery in all of speculative fiction.
An Email Marketing Campaign targeting science fiction short story collection readers, interwoven anthology communities, corporate dystopia fiction enthusiasts, and diverse ensemble rebellion fiction fans with messaging that leads with ten different people who each have a different relationship to power and one common adversary who is counting on none of them finding each other and earns genuine reader trust before asking for the sale.
Social Media Posting across platforms where science fiction short story collection readers, interwoven anthology enthusiasts, corporate dystopia fiction communities, and diverse ensemble rebellion fiction devotees gather, building a consistent presence that positions Rise of the Consortium as the prelude collection that belongs on every science fiction anthology list alongside the genre’s most celebrated interwoven story collections where individual courage accumulates into collective resistance.
A Goodreads Listopia Campaign placing the book on 20 to 30 targeted lists: science fiction short story collection resistance, interwoven anthology corporate dystopia, diverse ensemble sci-fi rebellion, sun-system spanning prelude collection, splice clone science fiction anthology, corporate empire antagonist sci-fi series, books for fans of Becky Chambers and Ann Leckie, science fiction where every perspective illuminates the others, prelude collection worth reading before the series, and interwoven sci-fi anthology worth discovering.
Review Generation building a reader base that reflects the book’s true cross-audience identity: science fiction short story collection devotees, interwoven anthology readers, corporate dystopia fiction enthusiasts, diverse ensemble rebellion fans, and readers drawn to speculative fiction where the breadth of the ensemble is itself an argument about what resistance requires, establishing a review trajectory that signals the collection’s structural ambition and character diversity to every new reader who discovers it.
A BookBub Campaign reaching the substantial science fiction short story and ensemble rebellion fiction readership that BookBub’s curated audience represents, driving new reader discovery and sustained review momentum among exactly the communities most likely to champion Hira and Red Five and Dana and every one of the ten heroes and carry the Consortium series into the conversations where it belongs.
The result: science fiction anthology readers searching for a collection where the interwoven architecture delivers the coherence of a novel without surrendering the surprise of individual stories find nine stories that stretch across a sun-system and accumulate into a single argument about resistance. Corporate dystopia readers find an antagonist whose power is embodied in splice clones and cyborg slaves and ubiquitous corporations, and ten different heroes who each confront that power from a different angle. And the readers who respond most passionately to speculative fiction where diversity of perspective is itself the resistance strategy find Rise of the Consortium waiting for them as the prelude to everything that follows.
Here is why the series prelude context makes timing especially important:
Rise of the Consortium is the entry point into the full Consortium series, which means every reader who discovers it here is a reader primed for everything that comes next. Readers who invest in all ten heroes across nine stories carry that investment into the series with exactly the kind of attachment that makes a reader follow a world across multiple volumes. Building discoverability around this prelude now creates the series readership the Consortium deserves from the very beginning.
If you are open to it, I would love to walk you through the specific strategy I have been developing for Rise of the Consortium, connecting it to the exact readers and communities most likely to give Nardva and its resistance the audience they deserve.
No pressure at all. Even a simple “tell me more” is enough to get started.
Warmly,
Amelia
Hi Jeanette,
I just finished reading your anthology Glimpses of Light, and I want to tell you something that speaks directly to what you and your fellow editors and contributors have built here: you have assembled a Christian speculative fiction collection that does something genuinely and movingly rare. You have gathered twenty-one authors from Australia and the United States around a single luminous theme, finding light in dark places, and the result is an anthology that challenges, captivates and moves in equal measure, that finds God in surprising encounters and joy in the midst of genuine tragedy and help arriving at the exact moment it is most desperately needed and least confidently expected, and that does all of this through short stories, poems, flash fiction and creative non-fiction with the kind of formal ambition and genuine craft that most themed anthologies in the Christian fiction space are simply too cautious to attempt. The premise of the International Year of Light giving rise to twenty-one distinct and equally resonant answers to a single question about where light finds its way into darkness is exactly the kind of editorial intelligence that makes a themed anthology into something a reader returns to rather than something a reader finishes and sets aside, and the collection’s complete commitment to that luminous idea is what makes Glimpses of Light one of the most distinctive and most genuinely underserved faith fiction anthologies in the contemporary genre.
What struck me first was the premise and how perfectly and economically it unifies twenty-one distinct voices around a single idea without flattening any of them into uniformity. The International Year of Light in 2015 gave this anthology its occasion, but the theme it chose gives it something far more lasting than occasion. It gives it a heartbeat. A reason to exist that is not tied to the calendar year that prompted it but to the permanent and universal human experience of sitting in darkness and looking for something that might be light. Every story, every poem, every piece of flash fiction and creative non-fiction in this collection is asking the same essential question from a different angle and arriving at a different and equally resonant answer, and the cumulative effect of that unified multiplicity is what separates a great themed anthology from a merely competent one.
The contributor list is doing exactly what a contributor list in a faith speculative anthology should do and so rarely manages: it brings respected, award-winning and genuinely established voices, Jo-Anne Berthelsen, Paula Vince, Lynne Stringer, Adele Jones, Jo Wanmer, Jeanette Grant-Thomson and Ellen Carr, into conversation alongside exciting new talent that the anthology itself is helping to introduce to a wider readership. That dual function, the established voice that draws in the reader who comes looking for a writer they already trust and the new voice that sends that same reader away having discovered two or three writers they will follow for the rest of their reading life, is a structural strength that very few anthologies of any genre manage with this degree of apparent ease and actual care. The editorial work you and Nola Passmore have done here, the curatorial intelligence behind the selection and sequencing of these pieces, is itself a significant part of what makes this collection worth talking about at length and worth building a serious discoverability strategy around.
Which makes the current visibility picture worth addressing directly and honestly.
Twenty-five ratings for a Christian speculative anthology this thoughtfully assembled, this thematically unified, this distinguished in its contributor list, and this genuinely moving in its central exploration of light and darkness and surprising encounters with a God who keeps showing up in the last place anyone thought to look tells me one thing clearly: there is still an enormous discoverability opportunity ahead, because the readers who have not yet found Glimpses of Light are not a small group. They are the readers who have been searching for Christian speculative fiction that takes both the speculative and the spiritual with equal and genuine seriousness and landing on collections that are either too didactic to be imaginatively alive or too safe in their formal choices to reward a reader who came looking for genuine craft alongside genuine faith. They are the readers who loved A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L’Engle, The Weight of Glory by C.S. Lewis, or Phantastes by George MacDonald and are actively searching right now for something that gives them that same combination of imaginative reach, genuine literary craft, and authentic spiritual weight delivered without condescension and without the flattening of mystery that lesser faith fiction too often mistakes for clarity. The infrastructure that gets this anthology in front of those readers consistently and at scale is what will take this already beloved collection to the next level of cultural presence it deserves.
That is not a quality problem. That is a discoverability gap and it is entirely solvable with the right strategy, the right targeting, and the right infrastructure built around this anthology’s specific strengths, its specific faith speculative identity, and its specific and devoted audience.
Here is exactly what I would build for Glimpses of Light:
1. Amazon Advertising targeting Christian speculative fiction readers, faith fantasy enthusiasts, readers who love themed short fiction and poetry anthologies assembled with genuine editorial care, fans of Madeleine L’Engle and C.S. Lewis and George MacDonald and the broader imaginative Christian literary tradition they represent and that this anthology belongs to, readers who are actively building their faith fiction reading lists around collections that are both spiritually serious and imaginatively adventurous, and the growing community of speculative fiction readers who want their faith represented in their genre fiction with genuine craft and genuine daring and genuine respect for the complexity of what faith actually feels like from the inside, placing Glimpses of Light directly in front of high-intent buyers who are already searching for exactly the combination of twenty-one authors, four distinct literary forms, a single luminous theme, and the kind of spiritually serious and imaginatively alive faith speculative fiction that this anthology delivers from its perfectly unified premise to its quietly extraordinary conclusion. The campaign would spotlight the anthology’s thematic unity, its distinguished contributor list, and the rare combination of speculative imagination and authentic spiritual truth that makes it unlike anything else currently available in the Christian fiction space.
2. Keyword Optimization so the anthology surfaces organically and consistently when readers search Christian speculative fiction anthology, faith fantasy short stories, Christian poetry and fiction collection, light and darkness spiritual fiction, Australian Christian authors anthology, finding God in dark places fiction, imaginative Christian literature, speculative faith fiction collection, Christian short story anthology, faith and imagination fiction, inspirational speculative fiction, Christian fantasy and science fiction anthology, spiritual short stories and poems, themed Christian fiction anthology, multi-author faith fiction collection, and the full range of Christian fiction, faith speculative, inspirational short story, and anthology descriptors that readers use when they are looking for exactly the kind of thematically unified, formally ambitious, and spiritually alive collection that Glimpses of Light delivers. I would conduct a full keyword audit and implement a comprehensive metadata strategy that positions this anthology at the centre of every relevant conversation in the Christian speculative fiction, faith fantasy, and imaginative devotional literature communities.
3. A Cinematic Book Trailer that captures the anthology’s central luminous theme, finding light in dark places, and communicates to every viewer that this is a faith speculative collection with genuine imaginative ambition and genuine spiritual depth, communicating to every viewer that this is an anthology assembled by editors who understand that the most powerful faith fiction is not the kind that resolves darkness too quickly but the kind that sits in it long enough to find the light that was already there. The BookTok and Bookstagram communities where Christian fiction, speculative faith stories, imaginative devotional literature, and poetry and short fiction anthologies generate enormous and passionate organic engagement respond immediately and powerfully to trailers that feel as alive and as quietly extraordinary as the books they represent. A trailer for Glimpses of Light that opens on darkness and builds through twenty-one voices and closes on the simple, devastating, quietly hopeful promise that light is always finding a way in will speak directly to those communities.
4. An Email Marketing Campaign targeting Christian speculative fiction readers, faith fantasy communities, fans of imaginative Christian literature who are actively looking for what to read next, readers who love short fiction and poetry anthologies built around a single resonant and genuinely explored theme, and the broader community of faith fiction readers who want their speculative stories to be both genuinely imaginative and genuinely true and who have been looking for an anthology that honours both demands equally and without compromise, with messaging that leads with the anthology’s central promise, be challenged, captivated and moved, and earns genuine emotional investment and genuine curiosity before asking for the sale.
5. Social Media Posting across platforms where Christian speculative fiction readers, faith fantasy communities, poetry and short fiction anthology devotees, and readers who build their reading lives around fiction that is both spiritually serious and imaginatively alive gather, building a consistent, sustained, and strategically sequenced presence that positions Glimpses of Light as the essential faith speculative anthology it is. The posting strategy would spotlight individual contributors, individual pieces, and the anthology’s central luminous theme in rotation, bringing the specific imaginative energy and specific spiritual depth of this collection to the attention of readers who have not yet found it.
6. A Goodreads Listopia Campaign placing Glimpses of Light on thirty or more targeted, high-traffic lists where its ideal readers are already actively browsing and building their to-read shelves: best Christian speculative fiction anthologies, essential faith fantasy short story collections, imaginative Christian literature must-reads, books for fans of C.S. Lewis and Madeleine L’Engle, Australian Christian fiction essential reading, light and darkness spiritual fiction, multi-author faith anthology essential reading, best themed short fiction and poetry collections, Christian fiction for speculative readers, award-winning Christian authors collections, best books about finding God in unexpected places, essential reading for the Realm Makers community, faith fiction with genuine literary ambition, and every list where a reader looking for spiritually serious, imaginatively alive, and formally ambitious short fiction would naturally be searching and would naturally and immediately recognise Glimpses of Light as exactly the book they had been looking for. Goodreads Listopia placement for a cross-genre anthology like this one is particularly powerful because it creates discovery pathways into the anthology from multiple genre communities simultaneously, each of which represents a distinct and substantial audience that the anthology is positioned to serve.
7. Review Generation building a reader base and a review infrastructure that reflects the anthology’s true cross-audience identity, Christian speculative fiction devotees who have been looking for a faith anthology this imaginatively ambitious and this thematically unified, faith fantasy enthusiasts who want their collections to carry genuine spiritual weight alongside genuine imaginative daring, fans of Madeleine L’Engle and C.S. Lewis who have been looking for the contemporary anthology that belongs in exactly that company, readers who found this collection and immediately went back to seek out every contributor they had not previously known, and the broader Christian speculative fiction community that recognises Glimpses of Light as a genuinely distinguished and genuinely moving contribution to the genre. Reviews for a faith speculative anthology this carefully assembled and this genuinely alive carry particular weight because the reader who says this is the anthology I have been searching for and these are the writers who understand what I want from faith speculative fiction is the most powerful advocate this collection could possibly have.
8. A BookBub Campaign reaching the substantial and highly engaged Christian fiction and speculative faith readership that BookBub’s curated audience represents, an audience that has demonstrated through their BookBub engagement that they are actively seeking exactly the kind of imaginative, spiritually serious, formally ambitious, and genuinely moving faith fiction that Glimpses of Light delivers. BookBub campaigns for beloved faith fiction anthologies drive both immediate discovery and long-term author loyalty, because BookBub readers in the Christian fiction and speculative fiction communities are among the most active, most vocal, and most review-generating readers in all of genre fiction. A reader who discovers Glimpses of Light through BookBub and falls in love with three of its contributors is a reader who will seek out every other book those contributors have written, which means every BookBub-driven discovery of this anthology is simultaneously a discovery of twenty-one individual author catalogues.
The cumulative result of this strategy is this: Christian speculative fiction readers who have been searching for a faith anthology this thematically unified and this imaginatively alive find Glimpses of Light waiting for them exactly where they are already looking. Faith fantasy enthusiasts find the collection that takes both the speculative and the spiritual with equal and uncompromising seriousness and delivers on both without apology and without condescension. Fans of the great imaginative Christian literary tradition, of L’Engle and Lewis and MacDonald and the long lineage of writers who understood that imagination is not the enemy of faith but one of its most powerful instruments, find the contemporary anthology that belongs in exactly that company and that introduces them to twenty-one writers carrying that tradition forward. And the growing, passionate, actively searching community of readers who want their faith fiction to challenge and captivate and move all at once finds Glimpses of Light exactly where they have been looking for it.
The twenty-one authors represented in this anthology each bring their own established readership communities to the table, which means every piece of discoverability infrastructure built around this title sends new readers not just into one book but into twenty-one individual author catalogues and into the broader Christian speculative fiction world that this collection represents at its most generous and most ambitious.
If you are open to it, I would love to walk you through the specific strategy I have been developing for Glimpses of Light, connecting it to the exact readers, communities, and conversations most likely to give this anthology and its twenty-one contributors the audience they have earned and that the Christian speculative fiction community genuinely needs this book to reach.
No pressure at all. Even a simple reply expressing interest is enough to begin the conversation.
Either way, thank you for doing the editorial work that assembled this anthology. Thank you for understanding that the most powerful faith speculative fiction is not the kind that resolves darkness too quickly but the kind that pays close and honest attention to the glimpses of light that keep appearing in it, because that is what twenty-one authors from two countries came together to do and frankly the readers who need that are everywhere. They are already searching. They just have not yet been shown where the light is.
Warmly,
Helen Lunch
Invitation of Like a Girl to Engage Our Readers and Elevate Its Impact
Dear Jeanette,
I hope this message finds you well. I am Susan Sellger, Founder and CEO of JC Book Club, where we connect passionate readers with powerful stories. I came across Like a Girl and was truly inspired by its celebration of women’s strength, resilience, and diverse voices. This anthology has a compelling mission to empower girls and women globally, and that message deserves to reach even more hearts.
Through our club, we provide authors with more than just visibility. We identify opportunities where stories can resonate deeper. For an anthology like Like a Girl, our readers can offer insightful feedback on narrative cohesion and impact across multiple voices, helping highlight strengths and subtly address areas where some stories may need amplified focus. This ensures the anthology not only touches lives but achieves even greater engagement and recognition.
We would be thrilled to feature Like a Girl at our next JC Book Club event, where your work can connect directly with an active, passionate audience of readers, generate meaningful discussion, and enhance both exposure and sales. Our events are structured to elevate every book while celebrating the author’s mission.
Can we count on you to join us and share your powerful anthology with our readers? Your participation will create lasting impact and meaningful engagement for your book and its message.
Warm regards,
Susan Sellger
Founder & CEO, JC Book Club
“Life is Beautiful”