Hello, you.
The Seven Miracles of Beatrix Holland is out TODAY and I want to tell you a little about how this magical book came into being.
Behind the Story
✨ A psychic tells Beatrix Holland she’ll experience seven miracles.
✨ And then she’ll die.
No problem, though. Beatrix isn’t worried. She is, above all things, pragmatic. She vastly prefers a long spreadsheet to a tall tale.
Then miracles start to happen, miracles she can’t deny.
Which is both 🎉 and 😬 for obvious reasons.
❤️ How This Story Started:
I wanted to write something that I loved. I just wanted to have fun. I didn’t want to aim for a lucrative market, and I didn’t want to write it just because I thought I should. Instead, I wanted to play.
So I asked myself what I loved.
I love (in no particular order):
- Practical Magic (the book but also the classic movie)
- Twin sisters
- Witches
- Teen girls who wear their hearts on their sleeves
- A realist who will never believe in magic (until she does)
- Small island towns (this one is off the coast of Seattle)
- A character finding love where she least expects it
- A character finding FAMILY (chosen or otherwise) where she expects it even less!
I simply wrote this for fun. The writing went faster than any other book I’ve ever penned. I hired my favorite editor. I was going to self-publish it and call it a day, but at the last minute (seriously, it was copyedited and ready to go), I gave it to my agent to see if a publisher would want to do the heavy lifting of publishing it, so I could write the next thing. 🙂
Grand Central Publishing (Hachette) did, and I’ve loved being with them. (That cover! Isn’t it gorgeous?)
Grab your copy now!
All the places (paperback, ebook, and audio):
Bookshop/Indiebound | Amazon US | Kobo | Apple | Nook| Audible | Spotify
It’ll be available in the UK and Australia and New Zealand next week!
Release Day
Release Day is always a weird day. You want to CELEBRATE ALL DAY! Also, you have to do your normal workaday stuff. The laundry is taking a long time to dry. The cats’ box needs cleaning (it always needs cleaning).
Today, it’s bucketing down rain in the way that happens when the sky decides the earth has been swearing too much and needs its mouth washed out. My toes are cold. It’s almost time for my lunch break. Often, I go on a walk on my lunch break (I did it once, okay?) but today I want to crawl into bed with the dog and listen to an audiobook, so I’ll allow myself to do that (see: celebrating).
Tonight, I’m ordering Thai food and my sister is picking it up. She’ll bring it over and also deliver peppermint bark that she’s been making (this is an unheard-of treat in Aotearoa New Zealand).
This is a perfect celebration.
But really, the biggest celebration is knowing that soon I’ll hear from readers. Hopefully, they’ll tell me that they loved this book.
I loved writing it so much. It was the most magical writing experience I’ve ever had, bar none, and I do think it shows. ✨
❤️ love always,
Rachael
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