I’m very pleased today to welcome The BBNYA 2026 Semi-Finalist Spotlight Tour for Heather Tracy’s Only a Chapter! This book made it to the semi-finals, so you know there’s something good going on–but before getting to this Spotlight, let’s start with a word about BBNYA.
BBNYA:
BBNYA is a yearly competition where book bloggers from all over the world read and score books written by indie authors, ending with 15 finalists (18 in 2026) and one overall winner.
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Book Details:
Title: Only a Chapter by Heather Tracy
Genre: Women’s Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction
Age Category: Adult
Format: Paperback, eBook
Length: 323 pg.
Publication Date: April 22, 2025
About the Book:
A call to change a lifetime…
Clare O’Donnell is in a dead-end relationship with her girlfriend, until she receives a phone call that changes her life—literally. In one timeline, her biopsy results are positive for cancer. In another timeline, her results are benign. In one timeline, the faceless person she has romantic dreams of becomes masculine. In the other timeline, they become feminine.
Her world begins to diverge, sending Clare on differing journeys of self-discovery and romance. In both, her dreams seem to show what might happen, and she realizes they all started after she survived the fatal car crash that took her parents. There is one constant: that no matter the challenges she faces, this is only a chapter of her life.
Explore how one phone call could change your life forever.
What is the opening line? “Ms. O’Donnell, the pathology of your right axillary lymph node came back consistent with adenocarcinoma. As this is a malignancy, we’ll need you to come in for further testing…”
What’s a fun fact about the book? I’ve had very vivid dreams all my life. In fact, many of the dreams featured in the book are adapted from those of my teen years through college that seemingly predicted the future. No, I’m not claiming to be psychic. But most, if not all, of my dreams of a faceless person did come true in one way or another after I met my husband. I’ve wanted to write them into a novel for many years.
What food or drink pairs best with the book? English breakfast tea and chocolate
What music pairs best with the book? There’s actually a song list for the book since all the Chapter/Part titles are song titles. That way, you can pick your favorite!
Book Links:
Amazon Canada ~ Amazon US ~ Amazon UK ~ Bookshop.org ~ Goodreads ~ The Story Graph
About the Author:
Heather Tracy (she/her) is a travel agent by day, and a masked copy editor and writer by night. As a travel agent, she plans Nerdventures—travel for the nerd in all of us. These can be anything from visiting New Zealand to see as many Lord of the Rings filming locations as you can to visiting castles in Europe to following in the footsteps of your favorite author.
As a copy editor, she’s found hundreds of typos, comma splices, and other grammatical nitpicks for Space Wizard Science Fantasy since before 2016. With over 30 titles copyedited, she’s now turned her hand to short stories in the Fiery Deeps, Lesbians in Space: Where No Man Has Gone Before, and Lesbians in Space: The Sapphics Strike Back anthologies, and her first novel, Only a Chapter, which features some of her personal journey surviving breast cancer.
Heather lives in Raleigh with her husband of over twenty years, William C. Tracy, where they have two rambunctious cats and several beehives. They enjoy taking their own Nerdventures—as much as they can be away from their small businesses—and cosplaying at various markets and cons throughout the year.
My thanks to The Book Bloggers’ Novel of the Year Award for the invitation to participate in this tour and the materials they provided.