A First Book. A First-Time Author. A #1 Moment.
A First Book. A First-Time Author. A #1 Moment.
The Bogeyman Was Built is now #1 in Amazon’s History of Race & Ethnicity category, inside the overall Amazon Top 100.
Get your copy here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H6HBMWXK
I am a first-time author. No agency. No marketing machine. No built-in audience. Just a story I believed needed telling.
This book asks one question. What happens when fear gets built carefully enough, repeated long enough, and buried deep enough that people mistake it for truth?
The Bogeyman Was Built traces how America built monsters, gave them faces, and used those faces to keep neighbors suspicious of each other. Those same stories are still running underneath our politics, our workplaces, our neighborhoods.
That #1 ranking means readers chose a hard conversation instead of walking past it.
Every purchase, every share, every message telling me it hit home, carried this book further than I could carry it alone. Some of you backed this before reading a page, because you believed in me. Thank you.
A book does nothing sitting inside the person who wrote it. It has to leave your hands and land in someone else’s. That is happening right now, one reader at a time.
First-time authors get told to keep expectations small. Crowded market. Hard to get noticed. All true. Also true: a clear message and readers who believe in it can still break through.
I didn’t write this because the subject was comfortable. I wrote it because silence has never healed a divided country.
Volume Two, The Words Changed. The Hand Did Not, and Volume Three, The Healing and the Refusal, are both available now for pre-order. This was never going to be one book.
To everyone who made this week happen, I’m grateful, plainly, not as a formality.
Follow my Amazon Author Page for what’s coming next: https://www.amazon.com/author/williamrochelle
Thanks for reading,
William Rochelle, but you can call me Bill.
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