I wonder if readers realize how much power they truly have?

For readers’ reviews of books can have a huge influence, both on other potential readers and on the algorithms that lie beneath search engine results.

I post below a shot of the first three reviews of my book, Kings of Friday Night: The Lincolns (Nimbus Publishing). That book about a 1960s Nova Scotia rock ‘n’ roll band connected with a lot of readers (some of whom have never been to NS and never heard the band). Some of hose happy readers expressed their affection for the book on different book-reviewing or book-buying sites. A few of those same readers also sent me personal emails to tell me how much they loved Kings of Friday Night. I loved hearing from them, I absolutely did, but in the bigger picture, their reviews on websites like Amazon, Indigo, Goodreads and others have a bigger ripple effect.

If anyone reading this feels a connection with Into the Wind: A Novel of Acadian Resilience, please offer a review (or merely a like or thumb’s up) on any of the various book sites. Your assessment might just lead others to discovering the book.