CAMILLE

My first novel is now ready for your consumption! It is called Camille. you can find it at this link on Amazon Amazon.com: Camille eBook : Lewis, Marion T.D.: Books. I have done a Kindle version and a hardcover. Paperback will be a bit later.

So Camille is about a young American woman who moves to Paris to pursue her studies and decides to remain indefinitely. She supports herself by teaching English. On one of her jobs, she meets a prominent international lawyer who forms an obsession with her, of sorts.  He is married, so even though she is attracted to him, she does not expect that anything will transpire between them.

In the meantime, he has assured her that he has never cheated on his wife.

So this assures her even more that he has no illicit intentions towards her.

The situation between them becomes a bit complicated when she finds herself looking for a new flat. He makes her an offer that is almost too good to be true and he assures her that his wife is on board. Should she accept their generous offer? Or run for the hills?

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This book is not appropriate for children

Buying Property in France? Read this Book First

As it turns out, a very small percentage of first time home buyers in France are foreigners.  La Maison Bleu is my personal account of the year I spent acquiring a house in Normandy France. I am an American expat living in Il de France and I decided that I wanted to have a little country house in Normandy in which to retire and grew a kitchen garden. Of course, very few things went as expected.  You can find the book at this link on Amazon: La Maison Bleu: The Year I spent trying to buy a French country house in Normandy, France: Lewis, Marion T.D.: 9798754131682: Amazon.com: Books .

It is available in Kindle, Paperback and hardcover.

SEDUCTION

Hi All,

I have just received a copy of my book, Seduce That Darling. I bought the hardcover version and I was so happy with it! I think my readers will enjoy this one. Especially if they read it in a spirit of fun, lightness and amusement.

I want to share the video from my Instagram and youtube of me reading 3 of the poems.

INSTAGRAM Marion TD Lewis sur Instagram : Good morning The finished version of Seduce That, Darling Is NOW in my possession. Oh boy. I love it. In this video, I read 3 of the 50…

YOUTUBE 3 poems from Seduce That, Darling - YouTube

I would love if you followed me on these platforms too :)

Have a nice day.

Check out the Author's Reading of Chapter 1 of her book: La Maison Bleu

 Hello all!

I have just put up an audio recording of me reading the first chapter of La Maison Bleu.

Check it out!

Follow me on youtube and subscribe! Marion T.D. Lewis - YouTube

Follow me on Instagram Marion TD Lewis (@booksbymariontdlewis) • Photos et vidéos Instagram

The 5 Best Books to Give Someone as Gifts (which I wrote myself)

THE 5 BEST BOOKS TO GIVE SOMEONE AS A GIFT for the HOLIDAYS

 What are the best books to give someone as a gift this Christmas holiday? There are so many to choose from that it would not be a big surprise if you experience analysis paralysis trying to pick even one. Obviously, the books you gift to someone will depend on who the someone is. You would not give the same books to the same people. There are books that make great gifts for men. There are books for your girlfriends. There are books for your Trump-loving in-laws and there are books for your mom.

Best book to gift your mom for the Holidays (or her Birthday)

By far, the best book to give your mom for Christmas is La Maison Bleu. Moms can be either very complicated, or very simple to shop for but I think just about all of them would enjoy this book. It is all about my quest to buy a house in Normandy France. I think it is a very funny book. I mean, that scene when I couldn't find a public restroom? The pigeons? The time the agent asked me to produce a bank guarantee? But it is also serious in certain ways because it deals with certain issues like retirement savings and retirement planning. Plus, it is set in Normandy France. What's not to like?

Best book to gift your guy friends (and girlfriends too)

There are two books I think the book guys would enjoy most on my list. The first is fluffy but funny and cute and maybe a little bit...conversation building. That book is the book of poetry called Seduce That, Darling. Guys would like it because it is all about a guy. They could get a bit defensive with some of the poems because it is all about this woman who is seduced, and then gets angry about it in the aftermath. And you know what they say when a woman's passions are unrequited. So they could interpret it that way. To me, it is more hilarious and exactly what these rakes deserve. And they need to know it. So yea, this one is great for them. But women would enjoy it too. Cause it is so funny, and I think relatable. 

Best book to gift your Trump Loving and Trump Hating Friends

I think my book What Would Donald Trump Do If... 100 DJT Questions for Your Next Soirée is hilarious. I want to update it in 2022 but the first version is a good, fun gift. It is in paperback and it just takes a light look at the former president that even his most ardent supporters should not find offensive, and his non-supporters could find funny. 

I wrote the book in 5 hours on Sunday, October 18, 2015. It is not meant to be a treatise on world peace, obviously. It is meant to be a fun book that you can even use as a party gag. For example, I ask questions like "What Would Donald Trump Do if  a guy fell in love with him and the guy confessed his love publicly." Another one is, "What Would Donald Trump Do if he found out that one of his kids was stealing from him." Another is "What would Donald Trump do if he were a woman and his breasts were sagging?

Best book to gift Oprah Winfrey and her ilk

Oprah seems like the kind of person who gives a lot more gifts than she receives. The book that I think she needs to read this year is They Were Not Slaves The book is available in Kindle and paperback versions and it is a book that someone like Oprah will appreciate for many reasons. It is important that we recognize the rights of these millions of undefended civilians who were unlawfully enslaved by de facto employers acting with the authority of the governments and monarchies. They had rights. They had the right to have rights. They were part of our human family. They are owed an apology and a retrospective reinstatement of their rights. Oprah will agree with this, I am sure. She will appreciate the legal arguments I make on behalf of these millions of individuals in this book.

Best book to gift the sensitive person in your life

The book Bully is a good book to give as a gift because so many kids feel bullied and even adults feel bullied at work and stuff like that. They need to know they are not alone and that there is help for dealing with this. This is the text for the back of that book:

*What can anybody do about bullying and being bullied? It seems everybody has a story about that - whether it is their child being bullied at school or they are being bullied in a relationship at home or at work. Bullying is a global phenomenon. It is not just something that happens in schools to children. It happens in workplaces, institutions of higher learning, places of worship and apartment complexes - everywhere. There is even such a thing as countries bullying other countries and companies bullying consumers. When does it stop? That is the question." I think the more we talk about this problem and shine light on the perpetrators, the quicker it will be resolved.

My Next Book is THEY WERE NOT SLAVES

 

I have been working on They Were Not Slaves since the summer of 2020 after George Floyd was killed. This is the most serious book I have ever written, or ever will write, I think. I much prefer to write light books that are humorous and fluffy but this one is definitely none of those things.

I hope to have this book uploaded in paperback form this week. A version of it is already available on Kindle. 

I would like to invite you to follow my youtube channel for this book at

They were not Slaves - YouTube

La Maison Bleu (The Blue House): My Latest Book

La Maison Bleu.

Key words: French Country Farm House, French country style. French decor. Maison a la Campagne. Country house.

Hi Guys!

I am still on my quest to write 100 books and I just published my latest, La Maison Bleu.

This is a first-person narrative about my quest to buy a house in Normandy, France. Why Normandy? I love it there: Deaville, Trouville, Rouen, Honfleur, Caen, Cabourg and other beautiful towns. The problem was that loving Normandy is not enough of a reason to buy a house in Normandy. Buying a house in France, it turns out, is very complicated when you are not paying cash. French banks are difficult to convince, and there are other aspects of the process that will not be as easy as a croissant.

La Maison Bleu is my personal story, of how the process of buying a house in France unfolded, and how my dream of owning a French country house in Normandy concluded.

You can get the book in Kindle format, paperback and hardcover.

La Maison Bleu: The Year I spent trying to buy a French country house in Normandy, France https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09MHKGTXK/ref=cm_sw_r_em_apan_glt_296YP320VRK1X

The Art of Seduction

 NEW BOOK!!!

Hi everyone!

I  have a new book in my collection. It is a book of poetry called Seduce That, Darling! Here is a link to me reading one of my favorites of the set Editing a poem I wrote in my new book of Poetry called, Seduce That Darling ....It's on Amazon. - YouTube

I had started this project years ago but left it to tackle a few other projects (two of which will hopefully be published by the end of this year as well.)

This collection of poems is based on the bestselling book by Robert Greene called The Art of Seduction. Well, I should say, loosely based. Not all the poems are inspired by this book but quite a few are.

I thought his book was very amusing and entertaining and I used to read it while I was working out on my stationary bike. I used it as a distraction mechanism because I hate exercising. So the strategy was that I would read a chapter from beginning to end and all this time, I would pedal, and then when the chapter was completely read, I could stop pedaling.

I worked pretty well but then when I finished the book, I stopped exercising, and over time, I ballooned by 15 pounds, although, to be fair, a part of that was brought on by the pandemic and a part of that is just my age.

Anyway, darlings, I hope you will check out the book and get your copy today. I think it would make a nice gift to self but also to others (especially for occasions like Christmas, Birthdays and Valentine's Day.

That's all for now. I will update you when the other two books are published.

Talk soon.

 Seduce That, Darling!: A Small Collection of Poems: Lewis, Marion T.D. T.D.: 9798756044010: Amazon.com: Books 

HOW TO WIN LOTTO - BY MARION TD LEWIS

HOW TO WIN LOTTO, by Marion TD Lewis

Hello everybody! So, it has been about 2 years since I published my last book and I just finished my latest called, HOW TO WIN LOTTO.  Don't giggle. This one is so much fun. It is available on Amazon. The idea behind How to Win Lotto is that there is a certain mindset that it takes to win the big jackpot. At least, this is what I think. I play the lottery fairly regularly because I am convinced there is a way to win, there is a mindset that is necessary in order to win. This book is an experiment to see if I am right. I probably should not have shared my strategies till after I win because now everybody will know the strategies I am using and they could possibly use some of them and win before I do. But. There you have it.

So, where does How to Win Lotto fit in the my quest to write 100 books? I have to be honest. It is about # 21 or so. I have only done 21 so far. I slowed up a lot because life got in the way. Would you believe I still have not finished the book about Alimony which was the next one in line since 2016??? I got totally side-tracked!

So here is a copy of How to Win Lotto if you are interested in purchasing it. Click here to go to Amazon and get your copy today.

What's Up With the Ridiculously Inflated Price of Books on Amazon by self-published authors?

I am a little bit confused about something. I have set up my Amazon Author Central Page and uploaded my books with all the prices on kindle and for the paperbacks.

However, I have noticed that within days all the prices or close to all of them have been randomly changed.

What is up with this?

So for example, some of my books are showing a list price on Amazon for $111.00 or more! It is absolutely insane.

Have you had this happen to you and if so what can I do to get this addressed by Amazon?

I mean obviously if someone comes across a paperback by an unknown author for $111.00 they are going to balk and not buy the book. So this seems to be injurious to authors that Amazon would allow people to go in an jimmy with the prices of people's books. It annoys me, I have to say.

So my latest book is my memoir called When Jeannie Went to Paris. It has a list price of $9.99. I have listed it on Create space here. And it will be live on Amazon in a day or so. But the price is $9.99. I repeat: $9.99. If you ever see it for more, just know that it is not the price I requested. This book is $9.99. And you can get it on createspace (an Amazon store) as well as on directly on Amazon.

Things to do in Paris: The Memoir is Done!

So I have finished the memoir. It chronicles my first month in Paris. It will be available on Amazon on September 13, 2016.

Enjoy! https://www.createspace.com/6504011

BULLY: Recommended Book About Bullying and How to Handle Being Bullied

"BULLYING HAS BECOME A GLOBAL PANDEMIC"

The other day, I had dinner with a friend who told me that when he was a youngster, he used to be mercilessly bullied by other kids. Turns out that is something with which I could personally relate because I have been affected by bullying throughout my life. So we chatted about that and we even talked about how Donald Trump, the 2016 US presidential nominee is supposedly the biggest bully ever.

It was an interesting talk for what it was worth and after, I put it out of my mind for the rest of the evening but the next day, I found myself writing about this topic and within 24 hours, I had completed a book called BULLY: It's Not Just Trump.

Because guess what? I realized that the world has become (as my friend Elizabeth so elequently put it when I subsequently spoke with her about the matter) "A cesspool" of intimidation.

Bullying is a problem not just on school yard playgrounds but even in close interpersonal relationships like marriage. On Divorce Saloon, a recent post poses the question about DIVORCING A BULLY.


I don't know what number book this makes in my "write 100 book challenge" but BULLY is now live on Amazon.  Be sure to pick up  a copy on Kindle or in paperback.

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=marion+td+lewis%2C+bully&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Amarion+td+lewis%5Cc+bully

New Edition: Best Selling Book About Donald Trump 2016

This is the new, updated edition of the best selling book about Donald Trump: So You Think You Can Be President. Available on Create Space -  Amazon 

Recommended Book For Lawyers in Private Practice

    

GET AHEAD OF THE COMPETITION IN A CROWDED FIELD

Read this essential book for lawyers written by a lawyer, that every young lawyer and lawyers in private practice should read:

The Divorce Lawyer’s Toolkit: Your Secret Weapon For Getting Ahead of the Competition was written by a lawyer for lawyers – especially those who are in private practice and are in the beginning years of their careers. This is an essential book for lawyers that every young lawyer should read.

Let’s face it, lawyers are a dime a dozen on every block in every city in every neighborhood in every state in the country. Actually, there is a glut of lawyers in the world. Everybody and their brother Jimmy is a lawyer. So the competition is fierce. How do you stand out and distinguish yourself from the herd? Well, naked lawyers stand out but they are not very distinguished and they certainly aren’t going to bag those clients. So you need to think differently but not so differently that you make a jack ass of yourself.

What Marion TD Lewis attempts to do with this book is not to solve all your business development problems  with one book but to offer you another good resource in your toolkit to help you succeed in your career and your law practice.

The truth is that building starting and sustaining a practice is not easy. It takes hard work, planning, patience, good support and the right tools.

This book will help you. It is a good tool devised specifically for you to help you succeed – if you are serious about your success. Read it and digest it and put the ideas into action. You will see the transformation. You will see the magic.

• Get your copy today on Amazon.com

• Available in hardcover version or Kindle e-book

• And please consider leaving a review.

 

How to Write a Good Book and Sell It. Article by NYT Bestseller

WHAT IS THE RIGHT WAY TO WRITE A GOOD BOOK THAT WILL SELL?

I have been trying to engage more on Twitter and someone retweeted something I tweeted and so I went to his Twitter page and he had this link and so I thought I would share it. It is all about how to write a good book and also how to brand and how to market, etc. It is a podcast.

http://publishingprofitspodcast.com/how-to-write-a-better-business-book/

How to Build an Author Platform Step by Step?

DO YOU HAVE AN AUTHOR PLATFORM?

For starters, this post is not a "how to" manual. It is really a question. Because it is all I ever hear from publishers and from experts on websites about authors and book publishing. And there are tons and tons of articles on the Internet about the subject matter but I still am not sure if I can ever succeed at getting me one of these. And I have been reading a lot of these articles.

For example:

• Build Your Author Platform: 7 Manageable Ways to Start From Scratch by thewritelife.com

• Your Writer Platform: How to Build Your Following Before the Book by yourwriterplatform.com

• A definition of Your Author Platform by Janefriedman.com

• How  to Build an Author Platform in 10 Hours Per Week by bookbaby.com

And this is just for starters. There is just so much information on this topic! The question really is how to parse through all the noise and actually come out with a "platform" that is big enough to sell books - preferably sometime before you croak. Am I right?

I don't have the answer to this question. Below find some of the tips I picked up from my research of the issue:

First, it is important, I think, to know what an author platform is. What is an author platform? According to Chris Robley of bookbaby.com, an author platform is a "fancy buzzword folks in the book business use to talk about an author’s fan engagement, their social media and web presence, the size and dedication of their readership, and their connectedness to other authors, bloggers, critics, agents, publicists, publishers, etc."

How are you doing so far with that? Do you have a social and web media presence and if so how big is it? The bigger it is the bigger your platform, I think. That is the rule of thumb: big social media presence, big author platform. But as Mr Robley points out, it is not just the social media. You also have to have an "in" with other authors and people in the book industry. How are you doing with that? I imagine much better than I am at this point.

Next point. You have to publish a lot to build a big platform. This means submitting work to online journals, magazines, blogs, newspapers, etc. Obviously, if you are a niche writer you need to keep your work relevant to this niche and to seek out publications in your niche. (and don't worry about the rejection letters just keep submitting till you get that climax.)

After. You need a website but that is without saying so maybe the point is that you need a few websites going simultaneously, as opposed to just one website, because obviously every writer has a website or blog or both. (what is the difference anyway??) And you need a massive following on these sites and blogs. The bigger the following the bigger the blog, the bigger the platform you can boast.

Then. Get on TV or radio as often as possible discussing whatever - preferably stuff relating to your niche.

Did I say. Develop a niche? This is key to being able to target an audience that becomes your "target market" and frankly, your customers and this will go far towards building your platform.

On top of that. Name drop your celeb friends and get them to name drop your book during media appearances. Or just hitch your wagon to someone famous the way Kim Kardashian did. Or date someone famous. That way you will be famous yourself and it is the easiest way to build your platform and sell your books.

Critically important. You need a mailing list. So you have to solicit emails from people who visit your website by using pop ups & free downloads and stuff like that to entice them to sign up.

Understand this: it is all about your ability to influence. You need to be good at winning friends and influencing others with your words, deeds and achievements in order to build a big platform. How do you do this? Create value. Solve problems. Give answers to life's tough questions. They will love you.

Understand that you need to think of yourself as a brand. It's like you are the Nike in the book industry. You have to get everybody to want to "wear" you no matter how ridiculously high your price of acquisition is. How do you do this? One way is to create "scarcity" and "exclusivity." This could contradict the whole point of building a big platform because you will end up with fewer people rather than more people when you are so exclusive. But in a way, growing your platform is not just a numbers game. It is the quality of the people you have at your finger tips, not the number. The quality of people in the self-publishing domain would seem to be people most likely to buy your books. The way you brand yourself could determine who is willing to buy your books.

Finally. Join as many communities as you can and be visible in them (both online and offline.)

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Check out my publications and books here: author page on amazon.com

Not Making Any Sales of Your Kindle Book After All Your Efforts? The Importance of Keywords on Kindle for Self Publishers of e-Books

SELF PUBLISHING AUTHORS MAKE MISTAKES WITH KEYWORDS ON KINDLE!

Not Getting Any Sales on Kindle for Your e-Book? Are you making the same mistake I was making, per chance?

I just discovered a mistake I have been making with publishing books in Kindle's digital marketplace. Apparently, I have been inept at choosing keywords to describe my books. My personal mistake is that I use all these one-word keywords rather than a combination of word strings. So instead of saying, for example "books about divorce" I would just write "divorce" as a keyword.

A friend alerted me today that this is a big mistake. He told me that people don't search using just one word. The search using a word string. So he says that I have to discipline myself that each time I write a description of my book on Amazon, that I have to use a word string as the keyword. And Kindle allows you up to 7 keywords. So this would be 7 keyword word strings.

Wow. No wonder I haven't been selling a lot of books!

So I went in and changed a bunch of kywords for most of my books. Of course now the books are in review for 12 hours so that will kill 12 hours of potential sales. But oh well. Let's see if this modification changes anything.

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Check out my latest paperback

https://www.amazon.com/Infidelity-Cheating-Love-Affairs-Divorce/dp/1537203452/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1472380407&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=author+central%2C+marion+td+lewis

Today is Donald Trump Day!

So over the years, I have written about Donald Trump. Here are 4 of those books all available on Amazon. Just click the link:

What Would Donald Trump Do If

Quoted: 100 of Donald Trump's Most Memorable Bites & Disses

Conversations with Oprah Donald Trump & Jesus

Quoted 2

Useful websites & tools for WRITERS e-publishing & Self-publishing authors

DIGITAL RESOURCES FOR WRITERS

I have spent the morning researching websites for self publishing authors. Really, I guess I am procrastinating. Now that I have finished Infidelity I am moving on to the next book in the trilogy, Alimony. This will be a much more difficult and involved book than Infidelity, I think. So I am kinda looking for all sorts of ways to delay. Hence, I have been just scrolling around the Internet, reading stuff. There is so much to learn! I really don't see how any self-publishing author navigates this maze and still has time to write! OMG. Case in point, below are some terms and vocabularies and websites and tools I picked up that I wanted to reinforce in my own brain. I find that when I write about something, it helps me to retain it. So if you already know these things, skip to the next post. But if you are learning with me, dig in.

HERE ARE SOME USEFUL TERMS, TOOLS, & SITES FOR WRITERS:


1. Bookbub:
bookbub.com
This is a little bit snooty because not just anybody can get their books talked about. But if you can pass muster, you should: "BookBub is a free daily email that notifies you about deep discounts on acclaimed ebooks. You choose the types you'd like to get notified about — with categories ranging from mysteries to cookbooks — and we send great deals in those genres to your inbox."

2. Perma Free:
It is a system of making your digital book permanently free on Amazon. check out smashwords.com for more details.

3. Goodreads:
goodreads.com
A maze of a website but all self-respecting authors are on it and know how to navigate it. If you understand what they are talking about, please tell me because I just get a headache trying to figure my way around goodreads.com. And it makes me very, very perturbed.

 4. Nook
It's a tablet and e-reader. Like Kindle. A competitor for Kindle. "Kindle Oasis v Nook Glowlight Plus"

5. i-book
A kindle competitor offered by Apple.

6. Kobo
"kobobooks.com Founded in December 2009, Toronto-based Rakuten Kobo Inc. is one of the world's fastest-growing eReading services, offering more than 5 million eBooks and magazines to millions of users across the world."

7. kboards.com
This site is a "user board for Kindle, the family of wireless reading devices from Amazon."

8. Smashwords.com
"Smashwords is the world's largest distributor of indie ebooks.  We make it fast, free and easy for any author or publisher, anywhere in the world, to publish and distribute ebooks to the major retailers.

FOR AUTHORS, PUBLISHERS AND LITERARY AGENTS, Smashwords offers quick and easy e-book distribution to most of the world's largest e-book retailers.  We provide free tools for marketing, distribution, metadata management and sales reporting.  At Smashwords, our authors and publishers have complete control over the sampling, pricing and marketing of their written works.  Smashwords is ideal for publishing novels, short fiction, poetry, personal memoirs, monographs, non-fiction, research reports, essays, or other written forms that haven’t even been invented yet."

9. Slickdeals.net

A venue to post alerts for deals on your books and other things

10. Pickfu.com

Get feedback on stuff like book covers etc. before you publish.

11. e-junkie.com
"E-junkie is designed for people who want a feature-rich shopping cart for their own website or blog, without having to be expert coders or deal with the headaches of a bloated off-the-shelf software suite. We’ve gone for that perfect balance between simplicity and customizability.
How does it work? We have a Seller Admin panel where you add products and then receive short code snippets for Add to Cart or Buy Now buttons to embed anywhere you want—just copy and paste our code into your page. Great for sites on Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, or anywhere that supports Javascript (we also offer codes that work anywhere you can't use Javascript).
After your buyers build their order through a cart that displays inside your own page, we guide them to secure checkout with their choice of any payment method you accept, among the wide variety of payment services we support. After checkout, we automate and secure the digital delivery of download files and codes. We also support the sale of physical products with tax and shipping calculation, inventory management and many other features."

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Click here to get it on amazon

Can Facebook Ads Help Self-Published Authors to Sell Books?

SHOULD I BUY FACEBOOK ADS?

A few people have advised me to buy Facebook ads to help jumpstart my new book writing endeavour - especially now that I have finished the hot and sexy Infidelity. So, my advisers tell me that Facebook ads will help drive people to my e-books and paperbacks on Amazon.com and Kindle, help me become an Amazon bestselling author in no time flat. None of these people actually bought Facebook ads, btw. But they assure me it is a good idea if I bought Facebook ads. Can they be right?

I am a little bit skeptical.  I have been doing research on this and it is mixed at best.

I DID A GOOGLE SEARCH ON "FACEBOOK ADS TO SELL BOOKS" 


If you Google "How to Use Facebook Ads to Sell Books," as I did, you will get a healthy return of great websites and posts such as:

• How Authors Can Use Facebook to Sell Books - digitalworld.com
• Successful Book Marketing Using Facebook Ads - the creativepenn.com
• How to Use Facebook ads to Sell More Books - authorscrib.com
• Facebook Advertising for Authors - Selfpublishingadvice.org

There is this one article Why Facebook Cannot Help You Sell Books by Michael Alvear for Digitalbookworld.com. One quote that I particularly remember is this one:

Let’s review: Facebook shows your posts to less than 16 percent of your fans, and you have to pay to reach the other 84 percent. And even if you do, only two-tenths of 1 percent of the people who see a post about your book will even click on it.
Facebook gets you closer to book sales in the same way that jumping up and down gets you closer to the sun

I really got very nervous when I read that. This guy sounds experienced with this stuff and he really thinks that it is a TOTAL WASTE OF TIME to buy Facebook ads to sell books.

As I continued my research, I read the following by a guy named Mark Dawson, "Facebook is the single most powerful marketing and promotional tool that is available to authors, be they traditionally or self-published."

Hme...what does he know that Alvear doesn't. The article goes on to talk about some staggering sums he spends on advertising, like nearly 4 grand per month! This guy is not talking about folks like me who are just breaking into the business and are "virgins" with this marketing stuff.

I think the best advice I read was this by authorscrib.com:

Facebook Ads aren’t meant for selling low prized books like the common $0.99 and $2.99 books on Amazon. If you are still thinking about using Facebook ads to help you sell more books, you can do so NOT by directly selling using Facebook Ads, but using it to build your mailing list by offering something in exchange for your target book audience’s email and name and draw them into your sales funnel where you can finally sell them your books through relationship based email marketing.

CONCLUSION

OK. I think I get it. I will not be buying any Facebook ads not even for Infidelity.

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=infidelity%2C+by+marion+lewis