April New Releases Giveaway!

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I recently listened to an author interview and was surprised to learn that a book’s success or failure is often determined by first month sales! (Though I bet preorders play into that as well.) Publishing houses look at those stats to determine whether they’ll add on to a series or accept the author’s next manuscript! All that literary goodness hanging in the balance but for a month’s worth of sales! (This was a cozy mystery author, but I imagine all traditional publishers use the same ‘system’.) So, I thought I should do my wee little bit to promote Christian Fiction by introducing a new tradition.

So, sometime during the first week of each month I’ll run a special “Hello — insert month” giveaway. It’s easy to play along, especially since we have all our lists organized after Reader’s Choice Week! You just have to choose one of the April 2023 books on your TBR wishlist and mention it in a comment below (or email me at kavluvstoread AT yahoo DOT ca) If your name is drawn, that April release is the book you will win and we’re one book count closer to keeping our fave authors in business. 🙂

69 thoughts on “April New Releases Giveaway!”

  1. Thank you for the chance to win a copy of “Blind Trust” by Natalie Walters
    Release date – April 11, 2023
    2clowns at arkansas dot net

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    1. Yes to Blind Trust! Might just have to use one of audible credits for that one. And I’m mighty jealous of your southern climes right now. We had a ridiculous freezing rain storm that left me without power for over a day. Bah humbug….during Easter week of all times. Mother Nature is not playing nice. Good luck, Kay!

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      1. Don’t be too jealous of our climes right yet. We had tornadoes popping all around us. Thankfully last Friday’s spine procedure was at a satellite office or I would have been right in the middle of the one that hit Little Rock and flattened a Kroger store we go to after appointments when we travel down there. Had another destroy a town southeast of us hitting a high school completely destroying it right after authorities cut school short and sent all the kids home. One house outside our down had one that just barely touched down hitting at least one home with elderly lady napping on the couch. Blew roof completely off and lifted whole house off foundation. She woke up saw daylight and went to the door looking out dazed. Neighbor ran to get her out because whole house was so unstable it was waving from side to side. It’s all caused from our temperatures major swings of up one day and down the next. I’m so ready for the real spring and for things to settle down to where I can photograph the critters and watch the gardens grow.

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      2. Okay….I’m not going to complain about a few days without power since my house is still standing and so is my neighbourhood. Yikes, but that’s crazy. I can’t imagine leaving in an area where tornadoes are a regular occurrence. We’ve actually had a couple in recent years, but baby ones…do they call them micro bursts? They’ve decimated very localized areas…still traumatic occurrences, but nothing to the scale you have described.

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      1. I’m more than halfway through Nicole’s book….oh my word… SO good!! Be ready to be emotionally captured within the pages and bonded to these characters ad if they were your own best friends. Kav, you MUST read it…..it’s a 5 Kleenex box rating 💖

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  3. Well this is a fun new category! I know what you are saying about preorders and early sales is true. An author I really enjoyed didn’t get a new contract because of slow beginning sales. Sad.
    Love Inspired is starting a new limited edition series called The Protectors (per Tina Radcliffe on FB) The first two are coming out this month. It looks to be similar to one their suspense books, and a new to me author too.

    The Reluctant Guardian by Alexis Morgan 4/25

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    1. Oh, and I forgot to say, there’s a retired police dog named Mutt helping Deputy Conner protect his neighbor. I know how you like your canine stories Kav 🙂

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  4. Kav, I love this new category! I would love to win Kim Vogel Sawyer’s book coming out April 18 The Tapestry of Grace.
    Thanks!
    jacsmi75 at gmail dot com

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  5. this is interesting to know. thanks for sharing this with us
    Apr 10 Love on Target Book 2 Shanna Hatfield
    Pink Pistol Sisterhood
    quilting dash lady at comcast dot net

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  7. I like this idea very much ~ I actually have all of our Reader’s Choice lists back to 2018 🙂
    I will choose one of my favorite authors, first listing on my April historical fiction:
    The Tapestry of Grace by Kim Vogel Sawyer – WaterBrook, April 18, 2023
    Kathleen ~ Lane Hill House
    kathleen[dot]e[dot]belongia[at]gmail[dot]com

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    1. Those lists come in handy, don’t they? I flip back through them from time to time and do a library search and often discover the ones I haven’t read yet have finally made their way on my library bookshelves. Yay! Good luck, Kathleen!

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      1. Kav, It’s not my usual genre either. Ronie Kendig is one of those authors that I can’t resist!

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    1. Oooh, I think that’s the novella from the collection published last year. Neat that they are publishing them individually now. We missed that one during Reader’s Choice Week. Good luck, Becky!

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    1. Yikes, another Susan May Warren series to catch up on…though I noticed my library has the first book on order…Fraser, I think? So that’s helpful. 🙂 Good luck, Gretchen!

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  13. What a fabulous new idea! I like it! I’d choose 26 Below because the library won’t get it except in e-book (which I struggle with).

    perrianne (DOT) askew (AT) me (DOT) com

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    1. It’s frustrating when libraries don’t get the physical copies in as well. Ebooks are all well and good (not — for me, anyway) but when you have a freezing rain storm that knocks out your hydro what good is an ereader, I ask you? I was on audible withdrawal for two days, but so thankful I had plenty of physical books to read. Good luck, Perrianne.

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    1. Eeeeppp!!! Guess what I just downloaded from audible?! I had preordered it but then the freezing rain hit and the power went out and it was killing me, knowing it was waiting for me but I couldn’t access it. Oh, the agonies of the 21st century reader! Good luck, Chanel!

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      1. Just started Windswept Way & loving it already!! The description of Hope Harbor (in this book especially), so makes me long to go there!

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  17. Having been on a lot of street teams for different authors, I have heard a lot about the importance of pre-orders and sales early on. This is a terrific idea to support some of our favorite authors!
    My choice for an April release is The Lieutenant’s Secret Love by Elva Cobb Martin. (You’re right, the TBR organization due to the recent Reader’s Choice Week has made this a rather easy, at-a-glance choice😂)

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    1. I find it so bizarre that they base a book’s success so early on. I get, that the publishing houses are planning far in advance but still…it’s hard for us poor readers to keep up with all the new releases, let alone buy them all. Doesn’t mean we aren’t going to love them and want more once we do get around to reading them. Good luck, Elly!

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      1. I agree, lol. Most of my TBR is books that are well past their release YEARS, let alone month😅 It’s just too hard to stay current on absolutely everything that I want to!

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  18. I like the new giveaway category! My choice would be War of Torment by Ronie Kendig. Thanks for the opportunity to win!

    Jolene (Beauty in the Binding Blog) – iwant2save34 at gmail dot com

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  19. Looking at April, I’m looking forward to Now or Never by Emily Conrad, releasing April 28. Thanks for this interesting category to look forward to every month!

    Sandyavery at comcast dot net

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  20. What a fun new category! I can see this being one of my favorites to look forward to 😊

    My number one pick:
    1. Windswept Way by Irene Hannon

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  22. How about a Love Inspired to round it out? Plus, she’s a new-to-me author to boot 😊

    3. The Secret Amish Admirer by Virginia Wise

    teamob4 (at) gmail (dot) com

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    1. Oopsies, Trixi, this time it’s only a one book choice…so you gotta narrow it down to only one of your April release choices. Decisions. Decisions. Let me know so I can add you to the list.

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      1. Oh shoot….I didn’t read the directions well enough I guess!! Got too excited 😂😂

        So since my library doesn’t carry Sian Bessey nor can I borrow them from Kindle Unlimited, I’ll stick with “The Unassuming Curator”.

        Irene Hannon is always my first choice, but my library carries her ebooks and I just put that book on hold 😊

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  25. Absolutely love this idea, Kav. Thanks so much! I’ll go with The Words We Lost by Nicole Deese. I’ve not read one of hers yet!

    ckbarker at gmail dot com

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  26. I’m so sorry to hear about the Tornados in your area KAV. Oh, my. Thanks for the extra mile you’ve gone to bring this info to our attention.

    The Bark of Zorro by Kathleen Y’Barbo I’m enjoying this mystery series and these authors

    Nora Fiding Hope yahoo Blessings to you

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  27. What a neat idea, Kav! I love where your mind takes you. lol

    The Broken Hearts Bakery by Carla Laureano 4/10

    dianalflowers at aol dot com

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      1. No life outside of books, at least not in mine. Life would be so so so…boring! Hubby doesn’t read books & works on old classic cars, watches sports – I mean boring, right? lol

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  29. I love this idea! The Vanishing at Castle Moreau by Jaime Jo Wright is my choice. Thank you!
    dmandres5 at gmail dot com

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