Today, one of my books cracked the Kindle Top 40 in the USA and, if I wasn’t full of my delicious tea (thanks hubby), I’d be doing a happy dance round my office right now!

The Secret to Happiness – my first release from publisher Boldwood Books back in September 2019 – was accepted for a BookBub promotion. It was the very first promotion I’ve had for any of my books in the US market so how it might perform was very much an unknown entity.

With such an enormous number of books available in the USA, impact on the charts would be a challenge. I hoped that it would make it into the Top 1,000. Secretly I hoped for Top 100 but realistically didn’t expect it.

A year ago, the same book got to #9 on a BookBub in Canada and #20 in Australia but we’re talking smaller markets here.

The starting position yesterday afternoon when the BookBub newsletter landed in inboxes was #43,248 so it had a lot of climbing to do!

The Secret to Happiness clambered away and it must have been at peak fitness as it certainly did me so proud. At bedtime, it was up to #660 and had gained several category #1 Bestseller Awards. In the early hours of this morning, it hit #138, then #53 and, shortly after 6am, it was at #35! Eek!!!!

I figured that would be it – no chance of going higher – and a slight drop late morning today to #37 suggested it had peaked. But it climbed those 2 places again and another 3 more a bit later this afternoon, reaching #32.

THANK YOU so much to the amazing Boldwood Books for putting me forward for the promotion, to BookBub, and to anyone in the USA who has downloaded The Secret to Happiness. I hope you enjoy it. I love the story of Alison, Karen and Danniella and it will always be a super-special one to me as it’s the book that secured me a publishing deal with Boldwood and completely changed my life.

If you’re not a BookBub subscriber, do check out Amazon.com as I believe it may be 99c for the eBook for a smidge longer.

If you’d like to find The Secret to Happiness, it’s available as an eBook for all formats, on Kindle Unlimited, paperback, on streaming services, for audio download, physical audio formats and via the uLibrary app in UK libraries or Hoopla for US libraries. You can find it on Amazon Kindle here.

Thank you again.

Big hugs

Jessica x

Everyone deserves a chance at happiness…

Danniella is running from her past, so when she arrives at the beautiful seaside resort of Whitsborough Bay, the last thing on her mind is making friends. After all, they might find out her secrets…

Alison is fun, caring and doesn’t take herself too seriously. But beneath the front, she is a lost soul, stuck in a terrible relationship, with body confidence issues and no family to support her. All she really needs is a friend.

Karen’s romance has taken a back seat to her fitness business. But she doesn’t want to give up on love quite yet. If only those mysterious texts would stop coming through…

When the women meet at their local bootcamp, a deep friendship blossoms. And soon they realise that the secret to happiness is where they least expected to find it…

An uplifting story of friendship and finding the strength to come to terms with the past. Perfect for fans of Tilly Tennant and Cathy Bramley.