The 11-year-old crime novel “Stone Maidens” came out of nowhere to take the top spot on Amazon’s book charts — thanks to a daughter’s incredibly sweet TikTok.
Marguerite made the TikTok after learning her dad’s book sequel had a slim chance of being published.“I am so impressed with my dad and I hoped a few people would buy the book if they saw the person behind it,” Marguerite, who has a modest 4,000 person following on TikTok, told The Post. “I shot video of my father and he didn’t even know I was doing anything.
The 17-second video, tracked to “Beautiful Boy ,” written by John Lennon, also showed the book’s cover.“I posted it and it had 200 views before I went to bed,” Marguerite remembered. “The first comment was that the book sounds great.” Next morning, she recalled, “He had 700,000 views. I thought something was wrong. And the book was selling on Amazon.”
Marguerite can only guess at what happened. “Maybe because I presented the human behind the book,” she said. “It’s a love letter to my dad. I wasn’t like, ‘Here’s my dad’s book; buy it.’”And that was not Lloyd’s attitude when he struck out on the 14-year journey to get his novel written and published. Back in the late 1990s, he was a lawyer for National Life Group, an insurance company headquartered near his home in Vermont, and read crime books avidly.
“It was difficult but I was determined,” Lloyd said, explaining that “Stone Maidens” was rejected by 85 agents before one took to it and managed to get him a modest $15,000 advance from publisher Thomas & Mercer, an imprint of Amazon. “Before now, my income from the book, when I factored in the costs of learning to write — including the hiring of editors to help me — was a negative. This is a passion.
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