Indie Book Collective discussion

authors looking for FREE reviews? you mean there are writers that pay for reviews? why?

I have paid for reviews. It seemed easy, one click of a button, but that was because I didn't know too much about the internet and how to promote myself
Martin Kendall

ROMANCE AUTHORS!
Cross promo opportunity.

Warm up the winter season by joining this Romance book giveaway on Story Origin.

Runs December 12th - 26th.

For Dark Romances with a heroine that is 18 or older. These can be any sub-genre but clean or sweet Romance won't be accepted. Short stories, novelettes, novellas or full books welcome. Samples accepted but must be at least 3 chapters and a maximum of 5 will be allowed in the promo.

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If you just want to be in the Story Origin bundle, no need to fill in the google form or make a payment, just enter your book in this promo. Thank you!

Story Origin is a great platform that is FREE to join that offers so many opportunities to authors. Connect with engaged readers, build your mailing list and join in some of these fabulous cross promos! The link to the site itself is here: https://storyoriginapp.com/

The Blood is on Your Hands: Poems against gun violence https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B3S6BK5W

"The poems are beautiful and visceral. It is clear that Cook feels passionately about this subject, and he knows how to communicate that passion across the page." From the Union County (NJ) Local Source newspaper.

Free Kindle Giveaway 9/1-5/24, and Reviewers Wanted for Hard SciFi: "Cadatas' Exploration of the Milky Way"

My newly released hard science fiction novel (or a philosophical science book coated in fiction) will have a free Kindle Giveaway between 9/1-5/2024. Reviews from those participating in this giveaway, or those requesting a review copy from seeing this post on GoodReads are warmly invited. Email me, Anna Faktorovich, at director@anaphoraliterary.com for a copy in PDF (best), Kindle or epub. It is on sale now: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1681146118

The History of Cadatas’ Exploration of the Milky Way: (Softcover: $30, 392pp, 7X10”: 978-1-68114-611-9; Hardcover: $35: 978-1-68114-612-6; Kindle: $9.99; Science Fiction & Fantasy—Science Fiction—Hard Science Fiction; September 1, 2024): At the peak of cadatas’ technological development, their business leaders attempt diverting an asteroid to mine its resources. A miscalculated maneuver misses the mine, and instead strikes their home world. With Cadata in ruins, a spaceship with three hundred explorers begins what would become a 100,000-year journey across the Milky Way, searching for a habitable world to relocate their perishing population. Cadata scientists gene-edit pilots to match the dominant species on each planet. Even with a 5,000-year lifespan, it takes them twenty-three generations to reach Earth. Chief pilots, Wocega and Ortack, and their descendants, face thrilling and terrifying challenges. Their bodies’ chemistry covers the spectrum of the periodic table, and their consistency alters from alcohol, to clouds, to metal. They are bombarded by diamond rain. They are enveloped in the sunless darkness of a roaming planet. They are compressed by pressures of extreme gravity, and dense atmospheres. Can even the most adaptable species endure a search for a new planet? This is the first captivating history of cadatas’ explorations from one of their expert historians, Ortack-23. Assisted by first ever translations of authoritative first-person archival accounts of cadata explorers, this history traces the geology of Cadata from the formation of this planet, through the events that led to its downfall, with a record of discoveries about alien habitats, and to their present attempts to become legal refugees on Earth. This is a one-of-a-kind theoretical and scientific defense of the presence of aliens on Earth, and of the scientific breakthroughs they achieved to reach us. It is accompanied with a bibliography of sources, an index, a galactic map of the journey, and a chronology of events. As humanity commences on its quest for life elsewhere in the universe, this encyclopedic study explains varieties of atmospheric conditions, and biological organisms as alien to Earth as Earth is to them.

Greetings historical fiction lovers!
ARCs are available for my soon-to-be released epic New Zealand: A Novel .

This epic novel spans almost 500 years and covers the respective discoveries of New Zealand by Maori and European. It starts in the 1300’s with the departure of Pacific Islanders from Hawaiki in search of land far to the south. A land they call Aotearoa. It ends in the 1700’s with Captain James Cook’s historic circumnavigation of that same land – a land he calls New Zealand – as seen through the eyes of engaging young crewmember Nicholas Young aboard the bark Endeavour.

From the outset the two stories are interposed. The adventures of the descendants of the earliest Maoris are followed down through the centuries, culminating in their often violent, sometimes romantic, always fascinating interactions with the white intruders they call pakeha.

The misunderstandings, tension and bloodshed that follow are relayed as seen through the eyes of one of the Endeavour’s youngest and most engaging crewmembers, Surgeon’s Assistant Nicholas Young, as the vessel embarks on its historic circumnavigation of the country.

Amidst the life-threatening challenges Nicholas faces at sea and on land, the young man finds true love when he meets Anika, a beautiful Maori princess who steals his heart.





If you would like to receive an ARC pdf, D.M. me your e-address via G.R. or email me at sterlinggatebooks@gmail.com and I’ll forward it immediately for your reading pleasure.

Thanks!

Lance
Author of: Into the Americas / White Spirit / Fiji: A Novel / Silent Fear / The Ninth Orphan / Genius Intelligence

I recently published my debut novel, Target Pool, with you.

You knew advertising had a dark side, but not like this.

I went undercover to write the world's first advertising technothriller. It's the story of an ad exec on the edge. Diana Lane is verging on personal and professional ruin when a miracle client lands in her lap. If she can close the deal, her problems are at an end. But when the always-perilous route to landing a big account takes a sinister turn, Diana finds her life in jeopardy from a network of domestic terrorists. With even the police stumped by the arcane and labyrinthine world of adtech, it's up to Diana to save herself, and democracy.