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I’ve just started using BookFunnel for newsletter swaps. I also got a trial for something called Romance Fiction Club, where you post a book, other authors put your link in their newsletter, if your book gets lots of clicks you build up a bank of clicks that somehow gives your book priority or greater reach in next swap. It’s pretty confusing and not explained well on the site. Anyone had success building your newsletter with either of these or another newsletter swap platform?

I’m looking for paranormal romance recommendations, with similar writing to books by Susanna Kearsley (The Rose Garden, The Winter Sea) and Amanda Stevens (The Graveyard Queen series), except with more spice. I absolutely love the lush writing, emotional twisty/turny stories, I just want a spicy payoff after the slow burn. Any suggestions?

I’m looking for paranormal romance recommendations, with similar writing to books by Susanna Kearsley (The Rose Garden, The Winter Sea) and Amanda Stevens (The Graveyard Queen series), except with more spice. I absolutely love the lush writing, emotional twisty/turny stories, I just want a spicy payoff after the slow burn. Any suggestions?

I have 2 books out in a paranormal romance series, the oldest was released in September. I have 8k followers on IG, both books have high average ratings (4.2 & 4.5, 300+ ratings) and the first book is sitting on 12k Goodreads TBR shelves. Both books combined have a lifetime KENP of just under 200k pages. I wish it was higher but I don’t think it’s awful.

But I keep seeing posts where a debut indie author is screenshots “#blessed-my debut indie published novel just hit 1M KENP in only 90 days!” or some similarly outrageous number. I’ll go look at that author’s followers and maybe they have 1k followers. Then I go look at Amazon/Goodreads to see how many review/ratings they have, and I see it’s less than 30.

That math doesn’t math for me. Like what am I missing? I know hundreds of indie authors publish each day, but I can’t see any evidence (albeit circumstantial I admit) that would seem to support those kinds of claims of overnight success.