When Reads the Heart with Carole Towriss
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When I released my first indie book, I sent my street team a necklace along with the advance reader copy. The pendant, a gift from the hero to the heroine, figured prominently in the book. She had never had a home or family of her own, and desperately wanted one. The pendant symbolized love, family, belonging—and home. One of my team members lost almost everything they owned a couple weeks after the book released in a massive fire that completely destroyed their barn and house. Thankfully, their entire family of eight, and all their animals, managed to escape. A week later she sent me this email: Hi Carole, I wanted to write and let you know what a blessing your book has been to me through this week. When we left for church Sunday morning I decided to take my necklace off that I wear every day and replace it with your carnelian one. While I'm sad to lose the other one (it was a mother's necklace with all my children's names on it - that did need to be re