It is hard for us Indie Authors to keep up with the demands of marketing our books - hard work for what seems, all too often, not much reward. For myself (and several of my author friends) we don’t expect to sell thousands - or even hundreds, or often (being totally honest), even tens per month. I regard my writing now as a hobby. Something I enjoy doing. I have so many stories I want to tell, so many characters nagging me to write about them (unless it’s a pirate who occasionally disappears with a bottle of rum, leaving me to sort out ‘what happened next’.)
Yes, I want to sell books because to produce books costs money (editing, cover design, formatting, buying an isbn, buying proof copies of the book - you’re looking at anything between £500 to double or treble that. So I’m not in this for profit! It is nice when you see pleasing book sales each month though. (“Gosh! I’ve sold two books! today.")
I do my bit by hosting professional book tours on my Book Blog (The Coffee Pot Book Club and Mary Anne Yarde Book Promotions) but I thought I’d do a bit extra here today - and I have plans for something similar over the autumn and winter.
The following is a super promotion put together by
author Alison Morton. Thanks Alison!
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| https://books2read.com/TheLadyoftheTower |
The Tower of London is Lucy St.John’s world. As the wife of its keeper, she becomes mistress in all but name of England’s most notorious prison, tending aristocratic prisoners and condemned criminals alike while surviving plague, political intrigue and the executioner’s axe.
This is not the life the beautiful, highborn orphan had dreamed of. But betrayals make for strange bedfellows, and fate is not always kind.
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| https://geni.us/WhiteHeron_Amazon |
Runaway Ann takes flight. She lands on a remote Brazilian beach in the rainy season. The perfect hiding place from her enemies. For now. When the sun comes out, so do neighbours, surfers and a dead body.
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| https://getbook.at/MirrorMurder |
the first in a series of quick-read, cosy mysteries set in the 1970s
Eighteen-year-old library assistant Jan Christopher’s life is to change on a rainy Friday evening in July 1971, when her legal guardian and uncle, DCI Toby Christopher, gives her a lift home after work. Driving the car, is her uncle’s new Detective Constable - and it is love at first sight. But romance is to take a back seat when an elderly lady is murdered.
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| https://mybook.to/QueenAnna |
Book 1 of 1: Stuart Queens Trilogy
A crown won in the eye of a storm. A queen who refuses to be broken...
Princess Anna of Denmark sails for Scotland to marry King James VI, but storms ravage her fleet, igniting a deadly obsession with witchcraft in her new home. Arriving in a strange and paranoid court, Anna finds her new husband’s bed is a treacherous place.
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| https://linktr.ee/RipplesThroughTime |
Christina Courtenay’s gripping dual-time novel travels from the present day to the battles of West Mercia. AD 873
Merewen’s settlement is on guard against the threat of the ‘Heathen’ Norsemen. But for Merewen, the threats are also coming from within, as her future is cruelly snatched away from her. Eirik, a Norseman, finds himself abandoned and injured after a plunder of Mercian land goes wrong. He thinks his fate is sealed – until an angel, bearing the name Merewen, saves his life.
Hereford, Present Day
Alix moves to her uncle’s farm in Hereford, where she hopes to heal her recently broken heart. But something strange is in the air. Every time she touches a crystal pendent – a family heirloom gifted to her – she is haunted by memories of a life she never lived, of a relationship she never had, in a time she never existed in. A Viking hoard was discovered on Noah’s farm by his sister and her criminal boyfriend. Hounded by the police, Noah must find the rest of the treasure whilst also deciphering the strange connection he has to Alix – a connection that seems to transcend their reality.
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| https://mybook.to/wifek |
Every city keeps its records. Kronstadt (today Brasov) keeps something else.
When Gertrud, the respected wife of the town physician, begins noticing tiny inconsistencies in burial registers and medical records, she takes note. Until the same patterns appear again. And again.
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| https://books2read.com/DoubleIdentity |
Book 1 of 3: The Mélisende Thrillers
Deeply in love, a chic Parisian lifestyle before her. Now Mel’s facing prison for murder. Three days ago, Mélisende des Pittones walked away from her career as a French special forces intelligence analyst to marry the man she loved – high-flying financial trader Gérard Rohlbert. But her dream shatters when she wakes to find him dead beside her.
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| https://books2read.com/INCEPTIO |
An alternative thriller: The first Carina Mitela adventure - Betrayal, vengeance, empowerment in a New Rome
(Roma Nova Thriller Series Book 1)
“It’s about Roman blood, survival and money. Mostly yours.”
A killer with a personal vendetta is hunting New Yorker Karen Brown. Desperate, she makes a snap decision to flee to Roma Nova – her late mother’s homeland and the last remnant of the Roman Empire in the 21st century. But survival in this tough, unfamiliar culture isn’t easy.
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| https://mybook.to/QofS |
She should have stayed in the shadows—but Leonor de Guzmán yearned for the sun.
Castile in the 1330s is a place of constant turmoil. King Alfonso must contend with the incursions from the Muslim Marinids eager to reclaim Al-Andalus while struggling with repeated rebellions against his firm rule.
When Alfonso needs respite, he finds it in the arms of his Leonor—the most beautiful woman in the realm. But while he may love Leonor over all others, his lawful wife, Maria of Portugal, is tired of being constantly displaced.
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| https://www.amazon.co.uk/Caesars-Soldier-Mark-Antony-1/dp/1804362077/ |
Who was the man that would become Caesar’s lieutenant, Brutus’ rival, Cleopatra’s lover, and Octavian’s enemy?
When his stepfather is executed for his involvement in the Catilinarian conspiracy, Mark Antony and his family are disgraced. His adolescence is marked by scandal and mischief, his love affairs are fleeting, and yet, his ambition is vast.
Pick one or more - and ENJOY!
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