Impostor syndrome? Yeah he's my roommate now. Am I a writer? Still figuring that out.
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M. Dee retweeted
First Zon review for Mad Dog Elegy.
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Look at those review sites that ask authors to pay to move up the queue. They're filled with five-star reviews. They're not helping readers make informed choices at all. They're just milking indie authors for money.
Should you lie in book reviews to help indie authors?
If a book is a 2β experienceβ¦rating it a 4β βto help the authorβ might actually hurt readers more
So where do you stand?
-Protect indie authors
-Or keep ratings 100% honest
Let's talk about itππ§΅
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@GaiusKonstantin again commenting and blocking. I've done my research before I even started to write. I know those sites. You were rating garbage with 5 stars because authors are paying for it.
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If my suspicions are correct, you've lost my support. I'm not going to help promote your pretentious content anymore. No one gives a shit to what you do for authors. You are just padding your ego at our expense.
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@GaiusKonstantin you went to my post accused then block me? You assumed I was talking about you? If it were, I'd tell you upfront. I don't beat around the bush. The truth is, you don't even know what I'm talking about.
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M. Dee retweeted
Sometimes the most powerful stories come from our hardest moments. In this #AuthorSpotlight, @AmberDevlin01 talks about how loss shaped her debut novel The Book of the Goddess.
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M. Dee retweeted
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π£π£π£ COVER REVEAL π£π£π£
Requiem of Dice by Timothy Wolff is coming July 31! Exciting times!!! β¨
Happiness can be so beautiful it ends up being cruel. An unwanted reminder of how life would have turned out if we hadnβt worshiped our flaws. πͺ½ ποΈ πͺ½
Requiem of Dice coming 7/31. Cover art by Alejandro Colucci
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M. Dee retweeted
Jun 12
WHERE DO READERS ACTUALLY FIND BOOKS?
Before they ever click "buy," readers discover books through:
π± Social content β an author's post, or a BookTok video
β¨π Search & algorithms β Amazon, Google, Goodreads
β¨π Retailer recommendations β "Customers also boughtβ¦"
β¨π Editorial curation β staff picks, library displays, newsletters
β¨π¬ Word-of-mouth β a friend's mention over dinner
β¨ποΈ Podcasts & media interviews
β¨π·οΈ Metadata β keywords, categories, descriptions
WHY AWARENESS IS THE MOST NEGLECTED STAGE:
It's invisible. It's slow. You can't always trace a sale back to a single post or keyword β so most authors underinvest in it.
But here's the truth: without awareness, every other stage collapses. You can have a 5-star-worthy book, a stunning cover, and a premise readers would love... and still sell zero copies if no one knows it exists.
Read full article:
The Book-Reader Buying Cycle: A Strategic Framework for Authors in the Modern Publishing Landscape
via @justreadingnook
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#writerscommunity #bookbranding #authorsbranding
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M. Dee retweeted
A jaded drifter. A woman with a destination no one believes exists. A journey that sneaks up on you and doesn't let go.
@justcastellonβs review of @plainrunner2βs Travel By Star, a redemptive quest wrapped in westerns, myth, and horse-angels.
via π tr.ee/myp17H
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My newest novel:
How Do You Fix a Broken Pumpkin?
Free on Kindle Unlimited! π
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M. Dee retweeted
Jun 11
Part of what I do for #JustReadingNook is read the novel and compare it to the film adaptation. I watched #TheOxfordYear last year, then forgot about it. Then a similar situation happened to me β living on borrowed time with someone β so I watched the film again.
I saw it through a different lens. Closer to home... no, it hit home. Then I picked up the book today for the first time.
I should have avoided it. I didn't need another reminder of our borrowed time. But then⦠I was reassured. Put at ease. That we'll live in the here and now, not squander another day, but make the most of every single one.
So I'm writing a feature story on both the film and the book. This weekend. π§¦π
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The world is changing. Dragons and doom. π₯
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Know What You're Getting Into
165M books in existence. 4M new ones published every year. Readership declining. The publishing market is saturated β and that is the reality every new author needs to face.
Are you ready? π
Read: State of the Industry β tr.ee/lKTaWg
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Itβs my balloon π day π if you were thinking of READING my books, wellβ¦ pretty please? The Ruin of the Watcher is first in the series, then The Sweater Case, Resurrection of the Ruby Skull, and Mad Dog Elegy. Standalone, but character builds if read in order. FREE on KU, BookSirens and BookSprout.
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Jun 10
The hardest part of being an indie author isn't the writing.
It's putting something deeply personal in front of strangers and hoping they see what you see.
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A new face at the Nook, and we are HERE for it. ππ€
Welcome @GaiusKonstantin to the Reading Nook!
π Want your book reviewed? Follow & tag @GaiusKonstantin.
β¨ Book Feature or Author Spotlight? Head to @justcastellon
The Nook just got better.
A New Paradigm
By now, many of you know I review for Readerβs Favorite, an established book review and award contest site. Itβs not a bad place to do this, honestly, but adhering to their guidelines limits me. Iβll stick with them for the foreseeable future, but after composing my first review outside RF and seeing how liberating it felt, Iβve decided itβs time to progress.
Expect more reviews outside RF, then, but be forewarned: the criteria will be more stringent. My focus will be on evaluating only the content presented in the current version of the book, without consideration for potential or suggested future revisions, author intentions, or planned updates. Each review will assess the text as-is, emphasizing thorough and honest analysis based solely on what is available at the time of review.
The plan (for now) is to review one or two titles per month, which will appear here and at justreadingnook.com/ alongside a handful of titles reviewed for RF. The byline will qualify them.
This should be fun...for me.
#WritingCommunity
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Readers don't owe your book a second look.
The cover is your one shot before they scroll past, shelve it, or forget you exist. It either does the work or it doesn't. There's no middle ground in a split-second decision.
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#WritingCommunity #BookBranding
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M. Dee retweeted
Finally Getting theβ
The universe left notes.
Subtle ones, at first.
More like taps on my dense noggin.
Yβknow.
Like a recurring dream about missed trains.
Or that one where you overslept.
I always make too much ofβ
Reading people? Ooh.
You know youβre so very bad atβ
Then the signs got larger.
Billboard-sized. Skywritten.
Delivered by a man in a sandwich board who made eye contact
and side-eyed me.
A woman passed me a note in the parking lot at Bed, Bath and Beyond.
Still. I squinted at the horizon
like something wasβ
I was violating Rule # 1.
Reader, my stuttering <wait, wut> was also a sign.
Eventually even I
ran out of alternate interpretations.
The universe, exhausted,
sat down.
βOh,β I said.
βFinally,β
said everything and everyone else.
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The changes. I will make.
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