I got the call all author’s dream about.
In my case, it was an email. On Monday, Nov. 16, my editor at St. Martins Press, Michael Flamini, sent me a message.
“Tangled Vines” is #10 on the NYT monthly crime bestsellers list!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yahoo! We can now say, on any reprint and the paperback, “New York Times Bestseller”!!!!!
He then sent me the link.
I was flabbergasted. I knew Tangled Vines had been selling briskly in the Bay Area. (It made the San Francisco Chronicle/NCIBA bestseller list for the week ending Oct. 25, 2015. But to get on the NYT list, a book has to sell well throughout the United States. (I think. The methodology is a tightly guarded secret). I had no idea my book was selling elsewhere.
But who am I to quibble. I am a very happy author.
Thanks to everyone who bought the book.
Tangled Vines is #10 on the Times’ “Crime and Punishment” List. Check it out. I am honored to be in these authors’ company.
Hello!! This is Barbara Beattie again!! I was wondering if you got my email about the possibility of talking to my book club . Kind Regards Barbara