Rebelious rules by Kristina Gallo

Did you ever ask yourself about difference between private and public in social media? I suppose you have profiles in Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Tik Tok etc. You can pick among private and public option in your settings. Making your profile public have some advantages and failures. Public profiles are getting a bigger visibility and more followers. Public profiles attract a bigger audience that means a bigger number of shares and likes. Public profiles reveals more about a creator so audience has a bigger confidence. Failures: if you go public, you will attract spammers and stalker. Maybe some unwanted, familiar person can see everything you post. A malicious person can copy your content. You are exposed to haters. Making a profile private means some positive experience: Your level of safety is bigger. You can show your content only to your chosen audience. Potential followers needs your approval. Your content is limited so every unwanted comment will not show up. Failures: Your pro

  One of my favorite genres is horror. I represent author Jason Rogers, who is a horror author. You can find his books here: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B07K6244GY Jason J Rogers writes dark, gripping, psychological horror. Shards of Evil is available now on Amazon, the first title and series in a brand new line of horror called the Midnightmare Horror Collection. Carson is the second title released in the collection, also available on Amazon. Many more frightening, twisted, psychological titles are in writing and will debut soon. In between writing, Jason has put his photography and content creating skills to great use by selling a string of low content books, these include notebooks, journals and sketchbooks. Check out Carson, his creepy horror novel.

Did you ever write a book where the author talks about events that will happen in future? Like: "And then, something scary will happen. " Using that method, the author eliminates a moment of uncertainty and surprise. Readers are reading a predictable book.  Goodreads will remove the review that contain spoilers, where reviewer reveal what is happening in the book and spoil the fun for readers.  It is like you are watching a movie trailer that show everything important and exciting in the movie. Writing a book, the author should focus on secrets, to keep readers in mystery till the end of the book.  Why should I know on the beginning that two my favorite characters will get marry? Or, who will be killed? To make a book presentable, authors will try to pull shock effect, but this method is risky because it reveals too much for readers. Writing a good blurb, it would be desirable to ask questions instead of making statements. Like: " Who will be killed next?" Instead o

The virtual world became a platform where people expose their frustrations. If you post something positive, you will not get reaction. Ignorance is mostly present when you express your happiness. If you post something that irritates people, you will get negative reactions. Many young users use internet to write negative comments, put dislikes and troll others. We are witnesses to young generation who is angry, passive and without a purpose. You Tube opted out dislikes for public. You can see in your private statistic a number of dislikes.  Some people have a bad humor and don't have a clue how their reaction can hurt others. You will tell me this is a freedom of speech and free choice, but also as an owner of my profiles in social media I have right to restrict negative comments. I am against censoring and dictatorship and every critic is welcome, but I don't tolerate rude and abusive behavior. Besides, if someone leave a negative, rude comment, that gives an ugly example to ot

  Promoting your book is a hard path for indie authors. You don't have an agent, so promoting is your task. Indie authors will start on old fashionable way: offering their books in inbox, talking directly to people are they interested. Unless you are familiar with author, nobody likes to get messages from unknown artist who wish to sell their books. It is equal to beggaring. Also, tags are not welcome if you are not in author's circle. The conclusion is : to promote your book, you need to find your community. Making your profiles in social media means spreading a word about your books, so your followers should be members of your circle. When you want to establish your circle, you might have some obstacles. Someone will buy and read your book, but next time when you release a new book, this person will not buy it. People don't like to obligate. Someone will buy your book, but if a person is an author, you are committed to buy their book next time. Someone will promise to rea

Today I am featuring one of the best science fiction indie authors.   USA Today Best-Selling Author, Michelle Medhat (known as Mish to her friends) writes fast-moving, ruthless political spy thrillers blended with thought-provoking sci-fi. Readers and fans call her addictive The Trusted Thriller Series “007 on acid with aliens” or “Bond meets The X-Files”. Her books are loaded with incredible technologies, but in every case, they’re grounded in real science. Why is this? Well, for 28 years of Mish’s life, she’s lived and breathed science, engineering and technology, including programming chips for different bleeding edge applications, established and run technology software companies, developed programmes to bring sci-tech closer to the public, and was heavily involved in the early 90’s in bringing to the UK the first notion of technologies we now take for granted, such as film-on-demand (hello Netflix and Prime Video!), pause and rewinding live tv, virtual reality and sensor applicati

Can you earn from writing? That is a basic question many people will ask, when they hear about indie author. You are publishing in Amazon, your covers are self-made, you are hiring an editor or editing by yourself and you are promoting by yourself.  Traditional publishing demands only to write a book and submit it to your publisher. If you have  publishers, editing, covers, formatting and promoting are their thing. Being a traditional published once, gave me next impressions: If you are not well known author, your sale will be low. If you are publishing in a small country, like mine (Croatia), your sale will be low. If you are writing in genre that is not popular in your country, your sale will be low. If you are not a member of some author's community or association, your sale will be low. That makes me question: where is a difference between traditional publishing and indie authors? Only amateur will say about how indie authors are not real writers. We are also investing our mon