Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes

Can I get sappy on you guys for a second?

I was looking at this image on my computer.

These are reviews for The Seventh Seed, which officially released less than a week ago, on October 24th. Reviews have been coming in since then, and as of a few minutes ago, it has 16 with a 4.9-star average rating.

I’m not gonna lie. It makes me a little weepy. But not for the reason you might think.

Seed had a rather bumpy road to existence. I won’t go into all the details here – that story will be a guest post on Linda Sienkiewicz’s blog soon. Suffice it to say that Seed is lucky to be alive. So to see how it’s loved like this . . . well, it makes me reflect on all the work and struggle that went into it the past two years. And it makes…