Today is Launch Day (in my head; it's been up for a day or two) for ROCKET MAN!

What does that mean? Well, of course it means the book is available everywhere. (Correction: ALMOST everywhere. If you're an iBooks person & just totally want it RIGHT NOW, leave me a comment below. I'll alert you when it's up & also if you're the first person to comment, I'll give you a copy free.) (That free copy thing applies to all formats. Know what? It's launch day, I'm feeling dandy - first three comments get a free ebook.) (I'm feeling dandy, and also like I wish people would comment. I love reader comments.)

What else the launch means:

• My super cover & illustration (not MY cover & illustration, those I paid for) & awesome formatter have all pulled together to make ROCKET MAN look gorgeous. 
• People are buying the book, and most of them aren't even my mom! (Hi, Mom!) (Mom bears no resemblance to Serena's mom, for the record.)
• I'm shivery-nervous, although the first review was a good one, so that's exciting & encouraging.
• I'm prided up to my priding bone (that's an inside joke I just let out) that I managed so many moving parts to the non-book-writing aspects of self-publishing. I've learned so much! The next book will be easy to publish!
• I'll be going on a bit about this book on FB & Twitter & elsewhere on the web. Marketing types will tell you it's because I'm trying to build buzz for my book. I'll tell you it's really because I'm too giddy to shush, or talk about much else right now. (I promise I'll go on about how cute my dog is soon. Because she really, really is.)

So, when you see me out & about online today, wave. (Or, you know - comment, tweet, thumbs-up, etc.) I'm delighted to be sharing ROCKET MAN with you, and the whole wide world, as well.

The first book in the Roll of the Dice series is ROCKET MAN. (You should totally read it! Check the buy links here.)

In Rocket Man, Serena and her friends are a little bummed about their dating lives. To cheer up - and cheer each other on - Serena creates a game board that calls back to their middle school days. 

Did you do things like this? When I was a girl, we had folded paper fortune tellers, or we'd hold the stem of an apple while twisting the apple and reciting the alphabet (when the stem breaks, you learn the first letter of your beloved's name). 

Serena and her friends update the game for their adult status, but they are still girlishly excited to find out a bit more about their romantic futures.

I, personally (since I'm happily married to my own forever man already), am girlishly excited about the game board! My pal Alice Johnston, a clearly talented graphic artist, took my silly idea and turned it into this beautiful illustration. 

Go on, roll the dice! And let me know - who will your forever man be?