Making a success with a book sale will demand collaboration. You need to find your community, people you can lean on when your book needs promotion and sales. Following this step will need intuition and adjustment, you need to know with whom you are dealing.
During six years of my writing, I found some respectable people who love my books and I am always willing to spread my circle. Anyone who reads my blog can find my books on Amazon and write an objective review.
Meeting with different people means you need to negotiate.
In my experience, those characters are not people you wish to collaborate with.
Ignorant people. Were you in a situation where you wait for an answer to your message too long or did you never get an answer? This means you have to deal with an ignorant person, someone who doesn't want to consider you as a contact. Forget this and move on.
Trespasser. This is someone you never talked and the person jumps in your inbox or mail, asking for help. Those are people I always ignore or block. If we never contacted you before, I don't want you to write to me and make demands. Who are you anyway, to ask me for a review or share your book links with me?
A person who gives a lot of promises. "Yes, I will read your book next week. Sorry, next month. I apologize, for next year. " This never happens, because that person had no intention to read your book anyway.
Someone who always asks for a free book. If you can't spare a dollar or two to buy an e-book, you should not ask for a book for free every time. Authors have big expenses by promoting, editing and formatting, and giving books for free is a benefit.
Unacknowledged people. Those are readers who live in the Stone age. If you don't know that e-books exist, if you don't know what is Kindle unlimited or KENP, don't talk to me. You can Google it and educate yourself. If you go into the store with cosmetics, you don't ask for milk, isn't it?
Also, if a person asks for your book link, and you have it in social media in about me section, this is a sign she is not really interested. The question: "What is your book about?" is stupid, because every book has a blurb and preview, and you can easily find it.
Rival. This is a person who wants to cooperate with you, but he offers his stuff to reciprocate. Also, this person likes to push you, in a way to give a deadline when you will fill your task. I found a great answer on Twitter on this topic. The author said: "I will buy and read a million books, and then other authors will buy and read my million copies for a return."
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