🎉I’m overjoyed to share that Before I’m Gone stayed on Amazon’s bestseller list for several days — and it’s all because of your preorders, purchases, and social media sharing. ❤️
This story is close to my heart because it reflects the real-life challenges so many of today’s grandparents face — stepping in to raise grandchildren, juggling love and loss, and finding the strength to hold a family together. Seeing it reach readers like you means the world to me.
Indie authors like me don’t have the big marketing machines that traditionally published authors do — we rely on our readers and community to help spread the word. Every review, share, and recommendation you make has a bigger impact than you might imagine. We’re in this together, and I’m so grateful to have you in my corner.
Here are ways you can help keep it at the top:
🛒 Buy a copy (or gift one!) → Click here
✍️ Leave a review on Amazon, add a rating/review on Goodreads, and “Recommend” on BookBub — just a sentence or two makes a big difference.
📚 Add it to your “Want to Read” list on Goodreads so your friends see it (requires a free account)
💬 Recommend it on BookBub so it shows up in your followers’ feeds (requires a free account)
❤️ Share the book — post on social media or tell a friend (link here → https://www.amazon.com/dp/b0fh5d268p)
📖 Recommend it to your library — most libraries will order if you ask
⭐ Follow me on Amazon so you’ll never miss a new release
📝 Feature Before I’m Gone on your blog — share a review, interview, or spotlight. (I’m happy to send you my cover image, blurb, bio, and Q&A to make it easy!)
Potential Blogger Blurb
Before I’m Gone by Karen Randau is heartfelt women’s fiction about love, loss, and the family worth fighting for. When 68-year-old widow Ellie takes in her battle-worn son and four grieving grandchildren, she faces chaos, custody battles, and the challenge of holding a broken family together. Set in the Arizona mountains, it’s a moving story of resilience, second chances, and the bonds that make a family — by blood or by choice.
Buy Link → https://www.amazon.com/dp/b0fh5d268p
Author bio: Karen Randau writes emotionally rich women’s fiction about family, resilience, and hope. She is the author of the Families & Heroes collection and 17 other novels.
Your support — in every form — keeps this book’s momentum alive and helps it reach new readers who might need its message right now.
❤️From the bottom of my heart, thank you for celebrating this milestone with me and for helping Before I’m Gone keep shining.
With gratitude,
Karen