This question made me thinking. Do I need to promote myself or my books? To be genuine, people don't know who am I. I am swimming in the sea of unknown, indie authors. Recently I watched "The housemaid", the movie based on the book Freida Mc Fadden. She is a bestseller author. As much I like the movie, there was something that missed in this story. I watched, a movie about cult, "Manodrome", and I liked it more.
My point is: I watched many independent movies, based on stories by people who are unknown to public. I don't look who made is, I look for the story. But, I have a feeling, when a bunch of readers scroll on Amazon, they look who is the author. And when they see I am anonymus author, they don't want to give a chance to my books.
For example, I got 100,000 impression on Amazon ads and 89 clicks on my books. The sale is zero. If I was Freida, it would be blast.
It tells me something about a human nature. While you are not successful and famous nobody pay attention what are you doing. If the success happens, everyone is around you. This unfair game hits book sales too.
I am not person who falls on promotion or someone's famous name. Here I am talking about ability of people to look under the surface. People have stereotypes about indie authors, especially if they are not native American or English. I hear them: "Why I would check this Balcan author?"
Reading books from other cultures can spread your mind and learn about different life insights. I watched recently the movie "Sirat". That was exciting to see rave parties from another angle. The same about books, why don't give a chance to different stories?
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