I want to thank my enthusiastic and happy readers for all the wonderful feedback I've received throughout the past year. The Norwegian, English, and Danish editions of my novel have been warmly and beautifully received. I am deeply grateful to both readers and reviewers who publish and share their experiences of the novel.
After a couple of weeks in circulation with "Una, Unwanted," I am overwhelmed by the positive response from international readers.
Unknown indies like me don't write to make money. But of course, we want to be read! That requires people like me to embrace the discomfort of promoting what we've created, stretching the tolerance of friends and acquaintances for repeated exposure to a message on social media, etc. It can be embarrassing, awkward, and feel a bit shameful. We just...