Why should someone read my books?

Every writer wishes to sell his books. We want primary purpose, to reach an audience, readers who will buy our books.

What makes difference between amateurs and professionals, is how they talk to the audience. If you hit an unknown internet user with a message "Hello! Will you review my book? I kindly ask you to read and review my story.", there is a big chance that you will get blocked.

No wonder, you remind the reader of a beggar who is standing in front of your door, asking a favor.

Reviews are the main tools for sale, but how to get them?

Why should someone read your book when you have millions of indie authors and books online?

Why should someone buy your book when you have free books online?

From my experience, how you represent yourself is the key to your sales.

I have twelve books, various genres.

How to - self-help books. I don't have an intention to lecture someone. I transfer my personal experience. In this way, I clean my soul from my mistakes and give you something useful. If you want, use my experience, maybe it can help you.

Horror - paranormal story. As a kid, I enjoyed horror movies, I wanted supernatural powers, like many children. I wrote one book about a girl who predicts her dreams. I want to tell you that everything is possible, even when you are down when people are against you. If you don't fit in, if you are bullied, unpopular, still unpredictable things are happening, and there is your hope.

Romance - I don't offer happy endings, but a message is here, you can be a step forward when you meet a bad guy. Learn to recognize traps, some are in my books. I don't make illusions, I destroy them.

Thriller - if you are in danger, if you need to fight, I offer some ideas. Some things are based on reality, and life writes the best stories.

I don't expand my book with unnecessary things. Actions are going fast, characters are based on real people, I give them flesh and blood, created from pieces of someone who existed for some time.

My characters are not perfect. Girls are not innocent, guys are not rich, and villains are charming. Justice is not always what it seems to be.

Comments

Should we respond to negative reviews?

Recently I had a discussion in my social media about negative ratings. There was a situation in Goodreads, where I got two negative reviews on my two books. The point was in the way how the ratings were set up. First rating for my book "Body in the waves" was placed under 5-star review from another reviewer. While the reviewer praising my book, the troll came under to say "This is really bad book." Second rating was described as " Poor author needs writing lessons." Both reviews broke standards of reviewing, because there is no visible evidence that book was downloaded in Kindle unlimited or purchased. It was a clear troll act from a new page, without a profile photo and with a nickname. I reported this to Goodreads and they responded me they are processing this. Meanwhile, I heard from other authors that Goodreads failed to do anything about trolling. In these terms, Goodreads should delete such profiles and forbid the access because of breaking rules. T...

Swapping books - a devil's deal

"I will read your book if you read and review mine." This is an example of author's deal when it comes time for reviews. Reviews is hard to get. If you sell books, it is still not guarantee you will get reviews. If I could get a review for every book I sold, it would be great. People will buy book to collect it on the shelves and leave it un-read. Or, they will read but not rate it. Many reasons are for not getting reviews, but some people don't know where and how to write reviews or are not eligible. That is the reason why authors will turn to other authors, with a proposition for review. The danger of such review is on Amazon rules: author can't review other's author books on request. I love to read indie authors and they inspire me, but I have my circle and I never accept offers to read someone I never heard about. Once I got a proposition :" Hey, I saw your review for XX author, can you write it for me, too?" I ignored it. When you have a deal ...

Why is refund damaging indie authors?

I understand someone can be disappointed with a book. It is like I was disapointed with my trousers online and returned it. What makes a difference, my trousers were 40 euros. The book was 2.49 cents. This makes return funny, because what can you do with this money? Some readers don't understand story behind the refund. The author will get minus royalties. - 0.13 c in my Kindle report, that will vanish when someone else buy the book. The situation happens. Someone accidentaly clicked and bought a book. A random customer wants a refund. Maybe it was not a random move. Maybe the customer clicked, bought and did not like the book. When you don't like the book choose another options, instead of damaging authors. Write a negative review. Write negative one star rating. Don't purchase another books from this author. Or, maybe to reconsider and read it, again? If you write negative reviews or rate it with 1 or 2 stars, you are making a favor to authors. You are moving algorithms i...

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