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How can I advertise a book? And get real reviews?
What platforms do you use to get honest reviews for your book? I've been struggling with promotion and visibility.
u/-Jactop- — 2 days ago
r/BookPromotion
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My first self published poetry book
I wasn't feeling confident to share it but thanks to all those people here who showed I can gather some courage and share it. Haha.
One of my poetry called the Sound Of Silence has been published in an international Literary Journal yesterday.
Sharing one poem here from the poetry book YOU ARE EVERYTHING YET NOTHING
Hope it reaches everyone in need. ❤️✨️I'm grateful for the opportunity to share it here.
u/Art_Of_Being — 2 days ago
(Free HORROR Book) Kristael: The HAUNTED doll hears what you think
👁️My horror book is currently free on Amazon.
If you wanna feel the eerie atmosphere for FREE!
Just go and read what you are waiting for?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GHSG7GD7?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback
u/Winter-Juggernaut256 — 4 days ago
A voice knows everyone's DARKEST SECRETS. It chose the WRONG GIRL.
I published my psychological horror novel, Kristael, and I'd love to share it with fellow horror fans.
Here's the premise:
Seventeen-year-old Holly discovers the head of an old doll.
Then it speaks.
The voice knows things it shouldn't.
Her best friend's betrayal.
Her father's lies.
The truth behind her mother's fading memories.
At first, the voice feels like a gift.
Then it starts asking for things in return.
If you enjoy psychological horror, family secrets, supernatural mysteries, and stories where you're never sure who's manipulating whom, I think you might enjoy this.
📖 It's available on Kindle Unlimited (free if you're a KU subscriber) or for just $0.99.
Whether you read it or simply check it out, thank you. And if you do pick it up, I'd genuinely love to hear what you think.
u/Winter-Juggernaut256 — 4 days ago
Free on Kindle: Honor for the Dead by Connor Ludovissy
The first of a now-complete flintlock fantasy trilogy.
Ao has always tried to do the right thing. Now he has blood on his hands, his own comrades are hunting him, and the right thing to do isn’t so clear anymore.
Renfreya and the Kings have fought each other to a bloody stalemate on the Plain of the Ancestors, and no one knows who will emerge the victor. No one but Ao.
When an easy first mission turns into a massacre, Ao uncovers a secret that could turn the tide of the war and save his home. But with a power-hungry sergeant leading the company and a horde of killers opposing them, he might never get the chance. Not unless he creates it himself.
With his rifle, cunning, and a little bit of runic magic, Ao will do whatever it takes to save his home. No matter who has to bleed for it.
u/alexportman — 5 days ago
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My new literary horror novelette
Hey everyone in Reddit land!
“Kitty Pretty Lonely” a psychologically driven novelette of literary horror has launched today and is currently available on Kindle Unlimited and ebook format. Audible virtual voice (beta) and paperback will be available later today as well!!!
Go and check it out, and my other short stories as well. Don’t forget my next book in “The Confession” series “Brothers in Blood” releases Aug 1st! Be sure to check out the first book if you haven’t already!!!
u/Ashbolea — 5 days ago
New Dark Fantasy LitRPG - Arise: Ascending Origins as Death Awaken
Just started posting my dark fantasy LitRPG, Arise: Ascending Origins as Death Awaken.
A peaceful town faces sudden terror when an ancient evil breaks free, unleashing hordes of undead. A young adventurer couple gets caught in the chaos, fighting for survival as dark secrets and mysterious powers awaken.
If you enjoy it, leave a comment and let me know. That’s what keeps me motivated to keep writing.
Link: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/172985/arise-ascending-origins-as-death-awaken
COVER ARTIST: Myself with AI enhancements still not final
AI USAGE: Cover art, punctuation and slight grammar fixes.
u/Leakingshadows — 7 days ago
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[Question] I'm thinking of running Amazon Promotion + Ads. Is this a good approach?
Context: I self-published my book on Amazon at $2.99 more than a month ago, and till now I got zero sales.
Genre: Low-fantasy, war drama, bronze-age.
What I did so far:
- Promoted the book to my book-club colleagues and to family and friends.
- Launched an Instagram channel where I create content related to books and promote my own work every once in a while.
- Signed up to BookSprout and bought a review campaign.
The above generated zero real interest. People say they like the cover and the premise, but then they don't read it.
My Goal: This is not a commercial enterprise, and I'm not in it to make money. I set the price as mentioned above because I got advice to not sell it for $0.99 or for free, else people will assume there was no effort put into it (makes sense).
What I really want is for people to read the book and enjoy it. I sincerely believe it's a great novel and worth people's time.
My Plan: Run Amazon promotion at $2.99 --> FREE alongside Amazon Ads, maybe for a week or two.
My Question: In your experience, will this generate some interest in the book and lead to some readership? Should I change anything else?
Thanks a lot for your help!
u/FaisalWrites — 8 days ago
Hi everyone,
I'm Kevin, writer and creator of Forge City Noir, a Substack publication featuring my own original serialized Depression-era crime fiction. I created it as a way to hone my craft, share my work, and grow a reader base while working toward a goal planning and drafting a novel manuscript for submission to agents.
Who else in this community is struggling to get that rocket off the launch pad while juggling other responsibilities? It's not easy. Today was a good day at work, but my mind kept drifting back to the work I really love. I'm in my fifties now with significantly less time ahead of me so I feel the pressure to keep writing.
When I look at the goal I've set for myself, part of me wonders if it's achievable. Part of me wonders if I bit off more than I can chew, but this dream of mine to see something I wrote in someone's hands as they read in an airport gate waiting area just won't leave me alone.
Who else suffers this affliction of needing to pull off a miracle? Pull up a chair and let's compare notes.
Cheers
Kev
u/Ready_Eagle_2871 — 7 days ago
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I can create active FB fanpage for Your book
Hello.
I can create active FB fanpage for Your content - full of followers, likes, comments. No, I will not use bots, I swear. I will not use any illegal hacking methods too. It is just that from my experience I learnt some very usefull tricks which improves FB pages visibility and makes them showing to the potentially interested users (and I have quite good reach with RPG/speculative fiction fans).
When the page achieve satisfactory result, you will have a choice - reward me, I make you administrator of the page, you kick me from your page, you have full control over the page which popularity I have built - or we establish further cooperation where I am still administrating the site and make it grow even further.
Here is my own FB fanpage with my games and stories: https://www.facebook.com/p/Adeptus-Creations-61563758184058/
1,7K followers. Not great, but hey, many people struggle for achieving something like that!
So, as You see - in this model, there is literally no possibility for me to scam you. You are not giving me anything before I deliver what you demand. If You are not satisfied with my service, you just don't pay. It is only me who is risking anything (my time and effort) here. So why are You still thinking I am a scammer?! Is there anything humanely possible to make You think different?
I can also support Your content in other ways - I am very active on many social media and traditional forums. I also have group of devoted friends and fans (my own Dark Lord Sim interactive fiction game https://adeptus7.itch.io/dominion is 4th top rated strategy game on itch.io: https://itch.io/games/top-rated/genre-strategy) which can help me in liking, commenting, following Your and Your posts.
I can also make a TV Tropes page for You.
u/Megalordow — 6 days ago
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I published a Punjabi learning book for English speakers (absolute beginners).
I see people posting their books here and receiving constructive feedback. I look forward to the same. Non-fiction is not very common here, it seems. Moreover, I don't know how a langauge learning book will interest the wise poeple here. Anyway, here are the features:
Speak-first, rules later.
Same script as English. No Gurmukhi (yet), no confusion, no AI.
500+ words, and daily phrases and expressions.
Sound authentic with a novel sound guide using real English sounds (not the usual, confusing romanised Punjabi)
Short, 15-minute lessons for busy adults (actually 16+ years)
And much more…
Amazon link: Punjabi for Adult Beginners
u/qiratb — 7 days ago
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So I actually wrote a book…
I self-published a book on KDP. Shocking thing is 23 books have actually been sold. I’m still processing it because I never thought I’d do it or people would buy it. It was about a really painful part of my life but the feedback I’ve gotten so far has been incredible. It’s about me experiencing domestic violence and rebuilding my whole life over. I’m actually still uncomfortable about calling myself an author. Does anyone else feel this way?
If anyone is interested it’s called What Doesn’t Kill You Gets You A Really Good Therapist on Amazon.
u/Born-Put-234 — 9 days ago
Just publish my first novel what would you do in the first 90 days after launch?
I recently publish my first novel it knows don't let you know you are reading the biggest challenge was in writing the book it was figuring out how to market it afterward for those who have already gone through the state what do you wish you know before your first launch
u/raina_draemore16 — 8 days ago
Just published my first bilingual Latina self-help book — funny, real, and a love letter to our culture
Hello Everyone!
I just released Calle to Clase: The Latina Glow Up (Book Uno) by Michelle Lopez Lopez — and it is NOT your typical self-help book!
Think of it as a girls club meeting where we laugh AT ourselves WITH love — the silly things we do, the dramatic moments, the barrio habits we cannot shake even when we are trying to be fancy.
You know the ones... like laying flat on your bed trying to squeeze into those jeans that had NO business being that tight, your prima standing over you with a hanger yelling STOP BREATHING while you are turning purple trying to suck it all in. We have ALL been there and you know it!
It is a hilarious, honest, and warm celebration of Latina culture — poking fun at ourselves with respect, because only we can do that.
This is Book Uno of the Calle to Clase series — because one book could NOT hold all of this!
We are going from Calle to Clase together while keeping every bit of our spicy selves intact!
Also available in Spanish — El Glow Up de la Latina
DM me for purchase links! Thank you!
Tell me — what is the most ridiculous thing YOU have ever done to fit into an outfit?
u/Medium-Tea3223 — 7 days ago
Odysseus meets the dead Achilles in the underworld:
Achilles looked past him briefly, toward the ash-fields where Troy still replayed itself in broken echoes.
“Was it worth it in the end?” he asked.
Odysseus paused. “The battle, the victory?”
“No,” Achilles said. “Living.”
“You would have had glory.”
“Glory,” Achilles said softly. Then he laughed once. Small. Dry. Almost kind.
“I heard that word a lot when I was alive.”
He looked at Odysseus more directly now.
“If I could return,” Achilles said, “I would choose to be the lowest man alive over all of that glory.”
Then, almost quietly: “Go home,” he said. “Or don’t. It makes no difference to me anymore.”
And just like that, the greatest hero of Troy stopped being part of the conversation.
Read the rest of the story: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX31M4MQ
u/david29753 — 8 days ago
I finally published my space opera after countless hours of writing. I'd love your honest feedback.
After months of writing and revising, I finally published my sci-fi novel, Ash of Empire (Book One of the Federation Rising Saga).
It starts with what should have been a routine training mission. Instead, the crew of the Odyssey discovers an ancient alien station that awakens a powerful AI—and suddenly humanity finds itself at the center of a war that's been waiting for thousands of years.
If you enjoy:
- 🚀 Space opera
- ⚔️ Massive fleet battles
- 👽 Ancient alien civilizations
- 🤖 Powerful AI and mysterious technology
- 🌌 First contact and galactic politics
- 📖 Long-form sci-fi adventures
...I'd love for you to check it out.
I'm an independent author, so every read, review, and piece of feedback genuinely helps me improve as a writer.
Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G3XQVRV1
Thanks for taking a look! If you read it, I'd really like to hear what you enjoyed—or what you think I could do better in the next book.
u/Dangerous_Agent_3388 — 9 days ago
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Introverted first-time author here. I finally published my debut novel and don’t know how to market it
Hi everyone,
I’m a first-time self-published author and honestly pretty overwhelmed right now.
I recently published my debut novel, The Deccan Harvest, after spending years writing it alongside my PhD research in petroleum engineering. Balancing research, deadlines, life, and writing fiction was exhausting, but I somehow kept returning to this story until it became a full book.
The novel is a dark crime thriller set in India.
It follows Arjun, a soldier traveling by train to his next military posting. He never reaches his destination.
He wakes up inside a freezing chamber with no memory of how he got there, and what begins as survival slowly unravels into something much darker: a trafficking network hidden behind ordinary systems and lawful fronts.
I’m extremely introverted and not naturally good at social media or marketing, so publishing the book itself already feels like climbing a mountain.
I’m posting here because I wanted to ask fellow indie authors:
What actually helped you get your first genuine readers and reviews?
I’m not looking for shortcuts or fake hype. Just trying to learn how to get the book in front of people who genuinely enjoy thrillers.
Amazon link (if anyone is curious):
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H6LXN9LF
Thanks for reading.
u/Puzzled-Program-6073 — 11 days ago
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Any new authors want to Review for Review?
I’m a new indie author and just published my 2nd book, unfortunately I’m struggling to find people to review since my friends and beta readers have been pretty busy, is anyone interested?
u/Sorry_Attention2678 — 9 days ago
Hello and sorry
hello everyone here I the author of silent planet is here to ask for an apology. I thought it would be a great idea to use Ai to generate my grammar and notation for chapter 1 here but after publishing it I realized how big mistake I was making. We readers read for the emotion not for some shitty chatbot generated script. I realized and made chapter 2 completely by me and now I can confidently say Even if I have some flaws It doesn't matter as at least I am original. I highly suggest you to read the summary below and check out chapter 2 I know it has flaws but at least it is mine now .😊😊
Chapter 1 Summary
Ellie, a young astronaut selected for a highly confidential space exploration program, watches her lifelong dream turn into a nightmare when her spacecraft suffers a catastrophic malfunction and crashes onto an unknown planet.
After waking up inside an emergency pod, Ellie discovers that she is completely alone and stranded in a world unlike anything humanity has ever encountered. As she struggles to recover from the crash, she learns a terrifying truth: time flows differently on the planet, with a single day there equaling nearly two weeks on Earth.
Faced with limited food, dwindling resources, and only a handful of surviving escape pods scattered across the planet, Ellie begins planning her survival. Using advanced exploration tools, she analyzes the environment and discovers that the world may be habitable—but many dangers remain unknown.
When she finally leaves the safety of her pod to investigate a nearby survivor signal, she encounters a hostile alien creature and barely manages to survive the attack. While collecting valuable biological samples, Ellie stumbles upon fresh human blood deep within the jungle.
The scanner confirms her worst fear.
Another survivor was there recently.
Before she can investigate further, something strikes her from behind, and everything goes dark.
Chapter 1 ends with Ellie being dragged away by an unknown force, leaving her fate uncertain.
you can check out on https://www.webnovel.com/book/36106325308444905
u/karandahiya9867 — 9 days ago
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Babies are a blessing, just not to Duke McCabe. His had just died.
This is the first sentence of my debut epic fantasy novel The Ballad of Affliction: Dynasty Machine. On a scale of 1-10 how effective was that at grabbing your attention?
u/AugustChambersAuthor — 13 days ago