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RE: The agony of defeat, best laid plans, and the road to economic Hell. It's all part of the deal.
Ugggggh, I do feel your pain. Marketing a book is a lot of that, too. You can spend money you don't have buying copies to give on consignment to bookstores. Many of which won't carry it, period. You can spend money on ads, you can give away hundreds of copies on free download days. But can you get a whopping 25 of those people to leave you a review so that Amazon puts you in its recommendations for people? No. You can't. 😣
OMG this touched me! I apologize for all those books I read and forget to give a review on, didn't know how helpful those reviews could be 🤦
Thank you! 😊 Most people don't know; it's not like Amazon advertises it to the general public. In fact, they don't tell us authors, either - I found out from books about self publishing! So yeah, it would super help any future authors you read, especially the not-famous ones and indie-published ones, if you leave a review. It doesn't even have to be lengthy: "I enjoyed it" works, because Amazon's algorithm only cares about how many reviews there are.
Thanks for telling me, I must do that next time!
Yes, it really is a painful experience, @phoenixwren. But on the upside, I sold a lamp on Etsy today! Woooo Hooooooo! Now I'm recharged!