My book's success so far ♥️ Thank you SVS.

Melissa_Bailey

@carlianne CONGRATULATIONS! Doing a happy dance for you!

Actually, you want 4.78 stars instead of a perfect 5. When I see a book on Amazon that has a 5 star rating, I get suspicious and wonder why everyone loves it. Even bestsellers and award winning books have 1 and 2 star reviews. It shows that your book is getting reviewed by actual readers and not friends/family/reciprocal reviewers.

LauraA

@carlianne Woohoo! You are such a pro! The book is, well...adorable! Fingers crossed for your success in the upcoming months of transition.

@carlianne That's wonderful! Congratulations!!!

Pamela Fraley

@carlianne this is amazing! Congratulations!!

Nyrryl Cadiz

@carlianne congratulations!!! This is so inspiring

Asyas_illos

@carlianne So happy for you! Very inspiring to hear of your success!

Jeremy Ross

Congratulations @carlianne, that’s awesome!!! Sorry to hear you we’re laid off, but sounds like you are now able to put all your focus on your personal work.

Looking forward to to getting my copy!

Wishing you continued success!

jenn

@carlianne Congrats!!!

ann-nadine

Congratulations @carlianne

Griffin McPherson

That’s amazing! Congratulations!

Johanna Kim

@carlianne Such wonderful news! Congratulations!!!

@carlianne Congrats! Thank you for sharing your process and inspiring story!

AngelinaKizz

I LOVE it Carlianne! You did such a beautiful job putting it together. I'm reading it through right now and it's fantastic.

LisaF

Way to go!! Congrats!!

Charlie Eve Ryan

Looks adorable! Congrats!

Kristen Lango

Just saw this the other day in East City Books on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, and my face lit up. I wanted to tell the person next to me, I (sort of kind of virtually) know that girl!

Max Lakonsky

congratulations, beautiful work

Mathieu Noel

wow congrats this is awesome !

carlianne

Hey everyone, I just wanted to apologize for not responding to all the incredible congratulations and well wishes. I didn't intend to just write this and then ghost everyone like the comments didn't matter. And I truly love this community and am so appreciative of all of you.

Shortly after I posted the original post my father passed away unexpectedly and I've been completely focused on helping my family heal (and myself as well of course).

I was really grateful to have such a great launch. I'm sad that I couldn't continue the forward motion on it but slowly starting to return to it. That said I've sold upwards of 2k softcover books which is kinda amazing! I also had a friend share that they saw my book at fisherman's warf in SF.

Anyway I love you all and felt guilty about disappearing and wanted to just come back while I have a second to breathe finally and tell you what happened ️

demotlj

@carlianne I hope he had a chance to rejoice in your success and I wish you healing and sacred memories to bring you comfort.