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Featuring author Aaron Lebold

I love thrillers and books about revenge. Aaron Lebold is an author who writes books that makes you chill and raise your adrenaline. He is a thirty-nine-year-old youth worker, and he had a passion for writing his entire life. In his early years, this translated into music, where his greatest pride was composing the lyrics for songs that displayed great emotion and had the ability to inspire others. After years of doing music as a hobby, he decided it was time to move on to new ventures, this included getting off drugs and returning to school to be an addictions counselor. He was a successful addictions counselor for eight years, staying sober from all drugs and dedicating life to becoming a better person and helping youth avoid the same path of drugs and alcohol.  Eventually, he felt the desire to challenge himself again and decided to focus on writing. He began with daily blogs and then proceeded to create his first full-length manuscript in 2018. Since then he has completed h...

6 kinds of people you don't wish to collaborate

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 ...

How do reading books raise your mood?

How do reading bo oks raise your mood? Accord my experience, reading can affect you in various situations. When I am angry, books will make me calm. When I am sad, books will lift me up. When I am nervous, books will change my focus. Diving into a world of imaginary characters is useful for a person. If you want to relax from daily obligations, try to read. When I am reading, it is like I am moving in the movie scene.  I can see characters in front of my eyes and the plot will cause various reactions. Adrenaline, fast heartbeats, sorrow, even hate. How could a negative character in this book be so selfish? How could they be so cruel? When you are reading, you are not disturbing anyone, and you prevent yourself from others disturbing you. Is there a better excuse to get rid of annoying strangers than show a book or e-book? I remember days, when nobody support my side and previous friends turned me back. Swimming in the waters of depression, I had only books to cheer me up. While I w...

6 kinds of biased readers

Biased review is something that is forbidden on Amazon. If your family member or close friend praises your book and Amazon noticed it, it will be deleted. It is an uncomfortable situation. Your friend wants to help you and he likes the book, but Amazon doesn't have a good reaction to hyper-positive reviews. Some writers will give ARC copies or free books in giveaways to get more reviews. They will expect 4 or 5 stars from people who got the book as a gift from them. But, does it always happen?  What happens if your ARC reader gives you a negative review? He is ungrateful or objective? Or, he is trolling your book? What kind of readers are possibly biased? If the author offers you a book and reads your book, so you mutually praise each other. If the author talks to you about giving him not less than a 4 or 5-star review. If your editor gives you a review. If your family member gives you a review. If a blogger gives you a review when he promotes you and praises your book. If the revi...

My thriller suspense book "The Secret Behind The Silk Sheets"

Check out  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BGY24V84/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p2_i1 My book number 16 is online on Amazon. If you love thrillers, this is an opportunity for you. What makes this book special? People love stories about rich families. Where is a big money, there are secrets, dark mysteries, and bad characters. This story is threading Dario, a boy who went to the sea during the storm. He felt pressure because of his roots, and he risked his life. Nobody hear from him for ten years. His sister Klara has everything she wishes. A good look, education, social privileges, and a handsome fiance. She is connected with his brother and when he was gone she wants to know the reason for his vanishing. Sebastian, Klara's rich fiance is an opportunist. He is not poor, but he hates hard work. Hungry for adrenaline, he became attracted to his sexy boss Laura.  When a murder happens, everyone will be suspicious. What is a motive? Jealousy? Money? Or, this was a despera...

5 kinds of advantages to promote books with Amazon ads

Using Amazon ads as a way of promoting could be tricky. You might spend a lot of money but the results are not visible. It depends on your expectations. If you expect to sell a million books just because you paid for an advertisement, you will be disappointed. What do Amazon ads offer and how to use them? Visibility. There are chances your book will be visible to millions of readers. If you promote your book on promotional pages, they have subscribers, but not more than 300.000. You can catch millions of people who are potential buyers and readers. Some have Kindle unlimited to raise your KENP. Others will purchase your books. Objectivity . I got some bad ratings using those ads, but I don't regret it, my skin is thick. If you bought something from me and you did not like it, raise your voice. Also, give a compliment if you like it, with a good rating or review. Verified purchases. With Amazon ads, you don't have to share your books for free. Your ratings and reviews will be ...

When should female authors use their photos as a promotional tool?

When you buy the book, you will want to know something about the author. Shiny covers and good blurb are not the only things that attract readers. Do you wish to know who is the author? If the author is a beautiful woman, would you buy her book? I am an Instagram user. Always careful with my photos, I watch what I will post. One of my photos was in a swimsuit, and it got 81 likes. Well done :) I would not go far with exposing myself, more I love to show my mood or to represent my book selfies. Scrolling around, I saw a female author exposing her naked breasts. A brave act, but I would not follow this. I don't care about competition, but it attracts attention in the wrong places. So I looked at the comments below. "Wow, sexy lady. " "Can you show me more?" Most comments were from trolls or guys who are hungry for sex. I did not see anyone of them asking for a book. They probably did not read a single book in their lives. Using sexy photos as a promotional tool is...