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Hey everyone!

We run Wrote a Book, a site dedicated to helping authors get noticed. We reach 40,000+ readers a month and feature books in our newsletter too!

We’re opening spots for free author interviews and book promotions - it’s a fun, easy way to showcase your book, tell your story, and get it in front of readers. Plus, you’ll get a shareable feature you can post on social media. Any genre is welcome!

If you want in, just email hello@wroteabook.org and we’ll send a quick Google Form with questions about your book and your journey as an author. We’ll turn your answers into a professional interview and share it with our audience.

Can’t wait to feature your book and help more readers find it!

Imagine you go onto your attic. And suddenly you face little, only finger-sized women. And they tell you that they live there, in your house!

What an unbelievable situation!

What would you do? Tell them to leave your house immediately? Or would you let them continue living with you? Perhaps learn from them, learn who they are?

Let your fantasy go weird... and tell me in the comments! 👇👇👇

Have any self published authors asked their local bookstore to sell their books on consignment and if so what was the response? If the answer from the bookstore was yes, did the bookstore sell actually some of your books?

JWT

Countless "truth is stranger than fiction" tales, 177 magical concerts, 100 unique bands, 50 years of finding a way to the next show, and 10 Rules Of The Road all add up to 1 ordinary guy's extraordinary love letter to live rock & roll. 

And now, the book with a 4.4 star review on Amazon just got even better - welcome to the updated and expanded 2025 edition of TEN RULES OF THE ROAD I LEARNED AT MY FIRST CONCERT: AN ORDINARY GUY'S LIFETIME OF LIVE ROCK & ROLL!

The new edition is 550 pages, with over 250 pages of brand new content including:

• updates elements to every section of the book – the rules, the essays, the concert summaries, and the statistics.
• more tales from my 20th century concert adventures that I dredged out of my memory that didn't make the first edition
• details of all the shows I’ve attended since 2021, after the first edition was published, until today
• complete re-writes of Rules #2, #5, #6, #7, # 8 and #10, as well as the Grateful Dead essay, have been almost completely re-written. 
• consolidating the Song Selection essays from three to two but adding more songs to each remaining chapter in the process, doubling the number of tunes covered from 40 to 80. 
• replacing the discarded song essay, with a new one about the relationship between rock & roll and Broadway, a unique pairing that only really came into focus for me in the last year or so. 
• adding numerous new charts/tables to the statistics section
• quadrupling the number of setlists from shows I attended.  
• re-editing the entire book to clean up some areas that either seemed cumbersome or didn’t flow well 
• reformatting the entire book to give it a more professional look and feel.

It's bigger! It's  better! It's the perfect summer read for the rock & roll fan in your life! 

Available in kindle format, Paperback & hardcover!

Read a sample here!   

See the table of contents here!

Read reviews here!

Buy it here!

Hey Fellow Writers,

I’m a debut author who published my first novel back in June, and I wanted to share it with people who actually read dark psychological thrillers.

What it’s about:

Victor Harlow Cross is a forensic psychologist and PI in Detroit who has spent his life hunting the truth behind his family’s ritualistic murder. When a new case pulls him into a web of trafficking, corruption, and a serial killer known only as "The Marionettist," Victor is forced to confront the darkness in his own past and the possibility that the monster he’s hunting has been pulling his strings all along.

The vibe:

If you like your protagonists deeply damaged, your antagonists psychologically terrifying, and your crime stories steeped in noir atmosphere, this might be your thing. Think True Detective meets Silence of the Lambs with a Detroit gothic twist. It deals with heavy themes: childhood trauma, the foster system, moral corruption, and how violence reshapes the people who survive it.

Why I wrote it:

I wanted to explore what happens when the person hunting monsters starts becoming one. Victor isn’t a traditional hero. He’s obsessive, self-destructive, and running on rage and grief. The book asks whether you can seek justice without losing your soul entirely.

If this sounds like your kind of read, I’d love to know: what draws you to dark thrillers? The psychology, the mystery, or the moral ambiguity?

(Happy to drop a link if the sub allows it, just ask!)

I’m a Canadian writer from southern British Columbia who has spent much of my life in Washington State. Living on a border town frequently travelling between Canada and the USA gave me a strong connection to Washington and Seattle.

My novel, My Bizarre Abnormal Love for Self Hatred, is a dark, grungy crime story set in Seattle in 1999. It took me a couple of years to write. It’s finally ready.

It’s a fairly short, dialogue-heavy novel.

Crime fiction, dark comedy, tragedy, and grimness. It won’t be for everyone.

I appreciate anyone willing to give it a chance.

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0HFDLXLN8

https://www.amazon.ca/Bizarre-Abnormal-Love-Self-Hatred-ebook/dp/B0GRK2N9BX/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0

https://www.amazon.ca/Bizarre-Abnormal-Love-Self-Hatred/dp/B0GRK8N3P1/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0

Thank you,

📖 Remember Who You Are - Brandon James Anthony Levy

I’m looking for a few people to become first readers of my first book, Remember Who You Are.
It’s an illustrated philosophy mini-booklet, designed differently from a conventional book — combining short written chapters with illustrations, reflections and space for the reader to form their own interpretation.

The book will ultimately be released as a physical-only publication. I won’t be making a PDF or permanent online version available. This current V1 is being shared privately so I can understand how the book feels to someone experiencing it for the first time.

I’m not looking for judgement, harsh criticism or someone to review it as a professional critic. I’m genuinely interested in your first thoughts and feelings as a first-time reader:

What resonated with you?

What made you stop and think?

Did anything feel personally relevant?

Which ideas or chapters stood out?

How did the overall experience feel?

There’s absolutely no rush, and you can read whichever chapter speaks to you or feels relevant to where you are in life.

If you’re interested, I’d really appreciate you reading it and sending your honest first impressions to:
brandonjameslevy@gmail.com

This is my first book, and I’d genuinely value hearing how it feels from someone experiencing it for the first time. 🖤

I self-published my debut suspense novel, Through Inconvenient Action (link on my profile), just about two months ago. It's been an incredibly busy two months, mostly in ways that have nothing to do with the book or my writing, but I've still learned plenty about the industry, myself, etc. from the experience of managing and promoting the book. Here are some of the lessons I’ve learned since releasing my book. Feel free to add your experience in the comments!

- Self-publishing can be time-consuming and complicated, but handling things yourself saves you money and is extremely satisfying. I did everything myself, from editing to interior and cover design to navigating the various platforms (KDP, BN, etc). I don’t regret it; the creative control and strategy were fun and continually rewarding.

- Marketing can be a grind. I don’t really enjoy most marketing. There are aspects I like: the strategy, genuine connections with readers, seeing the results of my promotional efforts, but I’m not a big fan of social media and I would rather write than market my work. Still a great learning experience overall.

- Local bookstores rock. In my experience, reaching out and seeing if they’re open to stocking your book or hosting you for an event like a book signing is a great way to connect with your area’s literary scene and local readers. Plus, seeing your own book for sale on a bookshelf is one of those culminatory moments.
If you keep putting in work, even promoting your book in small ways, the sales will come.

Thanks for reading! Excited to hear lessons learned from others.

- Marketing can be a grind. I don’t really enjoy most marketing. There are aspects I like: the strategy, genuine connections with readers, seeing the results of my promotional efforts, but I’m not a big fan of social media and I would rather write than market my work. Still a great learning experience overall.

- Local bookstores rock. In my experience, reaching out and seeing if they’re open to stocking your book or hosting you for an event like a book signing is a great way to connect with your area’s literary scene and local readers. Plus, seeing your own book for sale on a bookshelf is one of those culminatory moments.
If you keep putting in work, even promoting your book in small ways, the sales will come.

Thanks for reading! Excited to hear lessons learned from others.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HDNPB1X1?dplnkId=26b74263-0897-4b9c-8aab-3ffd6f679e92

The Catalyst follows Claire Mercer, a teenage girl who has spent most of her life hiding an impossible ability: through touch, she can Borrow another person by slipping inside their body, speaking with their voice, and experiencing their memories and emotions as though they were her own. Claire has survived by creating rules and keeping everyone, including her best friend Emma and her father, from discovering the truth

Hey everyone!

We run Wrote a Book, a site dedicated to helping authors get noticed. We reach 40,000+ readers a month and feature books in our newsletter too!

We’re opening spots for author interviews and book promotions - it’s a fun, easy way to showcase your book, tell your story, and get it in front of readers. Plus, you’ll get a shareable feature you can post on social media. Any genre is welcome!

If you want in, just email hello@wroteabook.org and we’ll send a quick Google Form with questions about your book and your journey as an author. We’ll turn your answers into a professional interview and share it with our audience.

Can’t wait to feature your book and help more readers find it!

I'm 48. I taped the chart off the radio on Sunday nights as a kid and got the timing wrong most weeks.

A while back I noticed the songs I grew up with were more useful to me now than they were at the time. Not in a nostalgic way. "Livin' on a Prayer" is a song where Tommy and Gina never actually get out. Nothing improves across four minutes. That landed differently at 47 than it did at 14.

So I wrote 365 of them. One song a day, one page each, a short piece about what's underneath the record and an affirmation at the end. 1980 to 1989.

Two rules I set myself. No lyrics anywhere, because that's a licensing nightmare and you know the words already. And no pretending things get better when they don't. A few entries just say the hard stretch might not be nearly over, which is not what affirmation books usually do.

It's out in hardcover, paperback, & kindle. Happy to answer anything about the process. The fact-checking across 365 records was genuinely the hardest part.

Totally Inspo: 365 Daily Affirmations from the 80s Songs You Never Forgot

https://a.co/d/05HRMGZ5