u/Neoapotre

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I'm trying to figure out where readers usually go after discovering a new author.

Do they visit your website, Goodreads, Amazon Author page, Linktree, or somewhere else?

If you have one, feel free to share it.

I'd love to see how other authors introduce themselves and what seems to work best.

I'm always looking for ideas to improve my own.

At one point in my life, I thought my path was clear.

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Faith came easy. Questions had answers. The world made sense.

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Then I stumbled across a collection of ancient texts buried in Egypt.

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What started as curiosity became an obsession.

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Lost gospels. Gnostic writings. Competing versions of the same stories. Ideas that challenged everything I thought I knew.

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The deeper I went, the stranger the puzzle became.

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Years later, some of those pieces began to click.

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That journey inspired my first thriller novel:

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Blasphemous: The Forbidden Gospel

After years of researching theology, Gnostic texts, mythology, and ancient religious traditions, I finally finished and published my first novel.

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I won't pretend the journey was easy. Writing the book took years, and promoting it afterward burned me out badly enough that I stepped away from marketing entirely for a while.

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Still, I'm proud that I finished it.

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So, if you're working on a project that feels impossible sometimes, my advice is simple: take breaks when you need them, but don't give up.

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Progress is still progress, even when it takes longer than you expected.

I turned a page not realizing that the page had turned me.

I went deep into Gnostic and esoteric texts at one point, and it got intense enough that I ended up writing a novel just to process it

it wasn’t anything supernatural, more like the line between reading and imagining started to blur in a very vivid way

I’m curious if anyone else has had that kind of experience, where what you’re reading stops feeling passive and starts affecting how you experience things

I went deep into Gnostic and esoteric texts at one point, and it got intense enough that I ended up writing a novel to process it, basically mirroring the main character to my own experience

I’m curious if anyone else has had something like that happen, where what you’re reading stops feeling passive and starts affecting how you experience things

I turned a page not realizing that the page had turned me.

I went a little too deep into Gnostic and esoteric texts at one point… and it started affecting how I experience the world.

Not in a totally supernatural sense, more like the line between reading and imagining began to blur in a very vivid way.

It got intense enough that I ended up creating a novel just to process it.

I’m curious if anyone else has had that kind of experience when diving into these or other kinds of texts.