Wow, Maria. It sounds like you have a very professional outlook on your work. Congratulations on your success, and thanks for sharing tips with other Create Space authors.

Maria, you rock. The publishing biz is so difficult and you seem to have conquered it. How inspiring for the rest of us authors.

Best,

Chris

Wow, congrats Maria! Sounds like you’re another John Locke wonder! I bet you sell more than one million books in 5 months now that you’ve got several up there on the digital shelves!

I enjoyed your marketing advice in the Amazon author pages and navigated to you here. Awesome! And you’re so right, one needs to think of one’s audience first and foremost! My trilogy Fear of the Past is now (finally) out, all three books with a growling lion on the cover are up there…And of course, I imagine my primary audience to be a young man looking for himself. In the books he goes to Sicily looking for his family roots and falls in a Time Trap: soon he’s in love with an 18th century beauty – how can he take her back to his time and – deeper question – should he even try?

So far I’ve done all my marketing wrong (the little I had time for because I wrote all 3 books over the past 8 months). I wanted to thank you for your excellent advice because now I think (I hope) I might see my way out of this marketing conundrum…

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