Rebelious rules by Kristina Gallo

Many times is possible to see a title under author's profile, a bestseller author. This mark is not true in many cases, because bestseller author should sell million copies.  Scammers do abuse when they copy profiles of bestseller authors and bother people in their inbox, pretending they are experts who can help you. The last case I saw was the copy of author's profile who wrote a book "The White noise".  Scammers will talk about your books and offer you promo for big prices. The only thing you will get is an empty wallet. Some indie authors can't face with reality. Yes, you will sell books if you advertise it, but this will be a small ammount. Random sharing links with books is not effective, you can be suspended for spamming pages. For a good marketing, you need a trustful agent or influencer who will represent you. This one doesn't come in your inbox filter. This person is hard to find, you need recommendations from other authors. Pretending to be a bestsel...

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 n...