Well, I'm beginning to get feedback from people who have read Haunted Marietta and it's good! Laura said that she felt that anyone who had a taste for history would enjoy it, even if they didn't believe in ghosts. My friend Lorena said that she really enjoyed it and that "it was so well-written." Then she said she knew that sounded like a back-handed compliment, but what she meant was that she has read a lot of local ghost books that weren't that well-written and mine was. I didn't care how she said it; I was just so pleased she liked it!
Eddie Hunter, who write a Marietta blog that is extremely popular called "Chicken Fat," gave me a huge writeup when he first got the book and remembered he had given me permission to use a couple of stories and realized he was in the acknowledgements, and then wrote a great review of the book in which he said: "Some people are skeptics about ghosts. Well, if they are they are.
You can read this book and keep your belief intact but still enjoy this book just for the local history education you will absorb. Rhetta Akamutsu covers every major historical event that I can think of."
Here's the link to his great review:
Then one of my former classmates at Ware Shoals High School, Jean Pitt Dover, who lives in Pennsylvania now, wrote me this email today:
"I read your new book this weekend--it had such a twist of the paranormal and history--I think if you wrote text books on history more people would understand and enjoy facts..."
She went on to say she couldn't help but chuckle about how we weren't allowed to read in study hall and how the teacher was always yelling at me to put down my book and stop reading in class! Which is certainly true, but never stopped me. She yelled at Laura, too, for all the good it did.
Also, the Marietta Museum of History made my book cover their icon this month on Facebook!
So all of this is really making me so very happy! I love that people are buying the book and lenjoying the book! That is just one of the best feelings ever!
As of today, Amazon still has two left and they say more to come.
And Thursday I get to sign at the Norcross Ghost Tour! I do hope it doesn't rain or freeze. Then Friday, I'm at Eagle Eye Bookshop in Decatur with three other authors, including my friend, psychic Reese Christian, who wrote Ghosts of Atlanta. That's going to be so much fun!
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