Type of Scammers Authors Deal with While Trying to Promote Their Books!
I’ve literally had to turn off my messages from time to time because of these stupid scammers. Ever since I’ve promoted my books on social media hit with them everywhere and I’m getting to the point where I’ll just block them now because I can’t take another pushy ass book marketer. They seem to pop up every time I drop a book link in certain groups and on X. It’s so bad I now hate book marketers and everytime they dm me I’ll get rude since they are super pushy when I say no.
There are a lot of types of scammers trying to get authors' money, and I’m sick of it. The fake movie one some dipshit messaged me that they can turn into a movie for an outrageous price yeah right. Then the literary agent one who will be my literary agent and take 50 percent of my royaties yeah right fuck that. Then there are the fucking book marketers I hate them more then anything. They ask if I have a video trailer yes I do look. I can do mockups myself. No I don’t need a fucking MRA so tired of them asking this. I also don’t pay for reviews, promotion, or to get their services. There are also fake authors they act like they are interested in your books and try to sell you services. Ask about sales which is none of their business and point out low reviews like thanks for making me feel even worse. They all act like we are rich and writing doesn’t make you rich. It takes time and a backlist to get traction. Like I worked hard on my books and writing takes time and energy and I’m not giving my hard earned money for some stupid book marketer to take credit for my hard work! I have a full time job that pays my bills and it’s not like I’m rolling in the money to even want to pay someone it is actually a waste of money since I have more books in the queue.
Stuff that is free to do: Social media, publishing never pay to publish by the way I’ve been seeing too many authors getting scammed when paying a publisher. Hell some horror stories where the author doesn’t even get their royalties after a publisher goes out of business.
Stuff I pay for: Editing, cover art when I can afford to but now that I have a Canva subscription I can do the cover art myself now.
Ways I use Canva pro as an author: Cover art, mock up and book trailer.
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Raven’s Revenge is coming along well and I sent Afterlife to another beta reader meanwhile going to work on Eliana’s Revenge and been reading convos with book marketers and weirdos. I’ll be doing that more so join these platforms to watch!
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