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Authors: do you use the right way to promote yourself?

These days I was faced with intruders in my personal inbox. Goodreads and Facebook brought me messages from strangers. Shortly, they wanted a kind of education about sales and promotions, and to be a member of their groups. I am always fascinated by how someone can write to an unknown person, without checking her profile. What kind of genre do I write, do I wish to communicate with people I don't know, all could be clear from my profiles.  How do I answer these messages? With blocking, I don't want to waste time explaining what I want and what I don't want. This made me think, how many authors promote themselves in the wrong ways? I understand the desire to sell your book, but you can make a contra effect by forcing others to notice you. Social media are filled with book links. Authors are focused on numbers, they are automatically collecting followers, but a big number of followers doesn't mean selling by default. You will get a bunch of people on Twitter, Tik Tok, and

Featuring author James G. Carlson

A uthor James G. Carlson writes in a specific way, with depth and deep inspiration. James G. Carlson is an award-winning author of horror, science fiction, and dark fantasy. His short stories have appeared in various anthologies from small presses. He has also released two collections of dark fiction, SEVEN EXHUMATIONS and THE EVER-DESCENDING STAIRCASE, as well as two novellas, THE LEGION MACHINE and MIDNIGHT IN THE CITY OF THE CARRION KID. From the weird state of Pennsylvania, James drinks too much coffee and writes at a desk surrounded by animals and family in the mad zoo he calls home . My review for his book Legion machine: Welcome to the world of androids and machines. Angela seeks revenge for her beloved partner Rae and meets a guy who repairs her. She is ready for the battle. The action in this novel is filled with the emotions and habits of machines who live like humans, just on a higher level. Angela is introduced with Legion Machine, but the price for justice is maybe too hig

Featuring author Angelo Schenna

Let me introduce an awesome author Angelo Schenna, whose stories are proof that love still exists. As a child, A. A dreamed of being a cardiac surgeon. Later, Schenna realized that this was not what he wanted. Writing has always been his greatest pleasure. When he doesn't write action, adventure, horror stories, or anything else, he reads everything. Schenna admires all the writers he comes across and enjoys talking about books and magazines. A.A loves meeting new people, discovering new places and he also likes traveling along with his partner and family. Join A. A Schenna's newsletter at https://www.aaschenna.com/newsletter Website http://www.aaschenna.com/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/A.ASchenna/ Twitter https://twitter.com/aschenna Follow Thoughts in the Air Blog https://www.aaschenna.com/blog https://www.amazon.com/A.-A.-Schenna/e/B00PY4Q4QQ%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share My review for  The Stranger: I was reading a beautiful story. It is between drama a

Indie authors: 5 ways how to motivate yourself

When you are an indie author, it is like everything is against you. Amazon rules, trolls who write negative reviews, expensive editing, and readers' ignorance. Many people started to write and gave up, because of a lack of motivation. How to motivate yourself when there are big chances that you will never sell more than five books in a month? 5 reasons that motivated me are next: Show that you can to those who underestimated you. I was in the situation when I experienced how is to be without support, surrounded by people who disliked me. My keyboard was my only friend. Expel your traumas . If you feel that there is a secret inside of you, embarrassing or hard to tell, you can write. Make a story with fictional characters, play with their destinies and you will feel illuminated. You have an audience. Look at your ratings, reviews. First time I got reviews I was very happy. Wow, someone read my books. It might not be the audience I dreamed about, but a group of people read my books

How to make your book visible?

The problem with indie authors is about the visibility of their books. Your book can be interesting and great, but it is not important if nobody is seeing your book. Indie authors are millions on Amazon. We are drowning in the crowd, hoping to get some crumbles in selling our books. How to jump out from the crowd? The main step is to create your community. If you think you will publish a book in Kindle and wait for sales, you will never sell the book. Some ways how to make your book visible? Create a newsletter. Your newsletter needs subscribers, and if you have many subscribers, you can notify your subscribers every week about news in your writing, interviews, videos, reviews.  Make an interview. I made four video interviews with various writers who were hosting me. Make a group for writers . Nothing connects people more than talking about common interests. Gain many followers on social media . Tik Tok, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter. You never know how will read your books. Promote yo

Featuring author Scott Revolinski

  Here we are, I am continuing to feature awesome authors. S. M. Revolinski is a “baby boomer” born in Wyoming but moved around. He studied physics at Rice University in Houston, Texas, and Nuclear Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, before settling on a career criticality safety. He is now a retired engineer living in Florida and spends as much time as possible on the beach. When he is not entertaining his grandchildren or trading stock options, he enjoys writing. While not exactly science fiction, most of his stories are connections between the supernatural and the real world – what if ‘this’ really happened? His recent “Tales From Wyoming” series is a collection of interconnected short stories of the Old West.  Each story is a standalone adventure based upon some fragment of a story told during childhood growing up in Wyoming. To enjoy more of his stories, look for: Ashes Into Stardust –https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079M2C9HY After The Last Day –