Bloggers Rally Online to Support Patry Francis

The paperback of Patry Francis‘s debut novel, The Liar’s Diary, is being released today, just two months after she was diagnosed with cancer, and has been undergoing surgeries since then. Throughout early January, hundreds of authors and other bloggers contacted each other to orchestrate a one-day swell of attention for Francis and her book—LitPark has a full list of particpants, from Patti Abbott to Crystal Zevon. As the Backspace blog observes, “Authors aren’t in competition with one another… [They] understand that all those volumes lining bookstore shelves and crowding for space on amazon that seem to be crying, ‘Buy me!’ are actually helping one another.”

In addition to all the bloggers chipping in, Circle of Seven Productions created this promotional trailer for the novel:

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