Author of Suspense https://nitter.cf/t.co/I3gWqLoxWg
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Joined July 2017
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🎉Happy RELEASE DAY to me!!! My 6th book is out in the world! 🥳
THANK YOU to everyone who pre0rdered 405 MANTEL STREET this past week. I hope you have as much fun reading as I had writing over the last, um, 8 years!!!
A nice split between e-book & paperback! Go indies!🔗⬇️
Animal suffering seems to trigger more readers than anything else (except maybe the child stuff), & content/trigger warnings are for the readers.
I don't judge authors who don't use content warnings, but when they do the reverse & are so anti warnings, I see it as their problem.
A novel w/ only a few sales/readers but powerful & meaningful enough to still be read for a century is infinitely more desirable to me than selling 100k novels now.
And I kind of can't believe how many readers I've already had when I don't write to market or know what I'm doing!
On the flip side of this, if I'm ever discouraged & lament about writing/publishing, and anyone suggests I don't do it, I'm internally aghast and thinking, "How dare you suggest I not write and publish?" 😂
They're not kidding when they say it's about the market!
2018 (when YA thrillers were big): 405 Mantel Street got 30+ agent requests, R&Rs, Write Mentor runner-up, big house pitch interest
2026: It's my worst performing outside X (ads, etc.)
Shouldn't have published it now!
I spent 25K+ over the last 6 months advertising...
Sike, that was someone else who just stated it. And I really hate how publishing success largely belongs to the wealthy!
I try not to go over like 60/mo. in ads/promo, lol, so please just read my samples. 🙏
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#OctoberThrills 10/27 Tuesday Teaser
405 MANTEL STREET is out now!
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Sometimes I don't think we talk enough about the risks, personal/financial costs, impact on our health/mental health, etc. of writing, querying, publishing, & such.
It's almost taboo to discuss all that. The only accepted thing to say seems to be, "keep writing."
Why is that?
Truth about the #writerslife is most of us spend more than we make on our books, whether selling few or many.
All we want in return is to know you enjoyed our books or got something out of them, & it wasn't in vain, so please let it be known through ratings, reviews, posts!🙏
405 MANTEL STREET is in the company of some great books here!❤️
OCTOBER NEW RELEASES
📚 October’s big book drop is here on #JustReadingNook! Stephen King closes the Talisman Trilogy, Freida McFadden goes full Salem, Bonnie Garmus is back after Lessons in Chemistry, Reacher hits a town of four, and Harry Bosch faces the darkest case of his life. 👀
But the indies came to play too. 🧡 Four old friends reunited by a death and a monster they thought they’d buried. Two Pasadena teens pulled into an ancient war. Fox Argall back on a case that’s nothing like a burglary. A gothic mansion where homeless youth must play to win. A 48-hour manhunt tearing through 1999 Belfast. And a runaway heir coming home to save his brother.
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Twelve new releases, one TBR. Big names or hidden gems? Probably both.
🔗 Full roundup from the Nook Desk: tr.ee/0wtejW
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#NewReleases #OctoberReads #BookRecommendations #Bookstagram #BookTok #TheNook
The more interest agents showed in a book of mine, the less well it does at launch & w/ ads!😂
If they were worried (e.g., my Pitch Wars winner THE MANIC MISSION), it does great!
Usually, GR giveaway ratings already began, but now...
Ha, 405 MANTEL STREET is making me anxious!
Do you recognize an X author on your goodreads' "readers also enjoyed" list?
@VickyBall3 is listed on every one of my 6 books, even while overall, most of my readers don't appear to be coming from X (maybe more than I realize are).
Our books must appeal to the same readers!
You can steal away my books' ratings, bots-even the very first one 405 MANTEL STREET got-but you can't steal the value of my books or the enjoyment my readers get out of them!!!!!!!
#BooksWorthReading
I'm in the minority preferring e-books (at least going off this poll). I've grabbed so many of your books, and I could never have done this many w/ much pricier hardcovers.
Plus, my bookshelves are all stuffed full, & physical books are a pain when I move, which I do often(ish).
