Nobody showed up to a best-selling author's book launch. She called it a 'career low point' but found out she's far from alone.

• Suzanne Young, an author who's done national tours, spent a year writing her 22nd novel.
• But nobody turned up to the launch event at the NYT-best-selling writer's local indie bookstore.
• Support poured in from other authors and performers after she tweeted about crying.

After spending a year writing her 22nd novel, Suzanne Young had planned out its launch event at her local independent bookstore in Tempe, Arizona. 

Young — who writes fiction for teens, including a New York Times bestseller and has done dozens of book signings – was excited.

"The bookstore did a great job advertising it," she told Insider. "They had sent it out on their newsletter. They tweeted about it. People were commenting that they would be there."