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CRACK THE CODE AND YOU'LL SAVE LIVES...BUT KNOWING IT EXISTS WILL GET YOU KILLED.

When two American embassies in northern Africa are bombed, CIA operatives, Ridley Fox and Nita Parris, are assigned to track down the perpetrators. However, when their top asset is killed in a failed op, the agents suspect that there may be a new threat. Their search for the truth puts them on a collision course with a powerful multinational—which will go to extreme lengths to bury its criminal activities. However, the agents soon learn that someone with a personal vendetta against that company not only knows their secrets, but will expose them in a way that could result in the largest single-day attack against America.

If you enjoy stories with conspiracies, martial-arts, sex, betrayal, and revenge, then you must purchase The Demeter Code

Why is this thread posted 4 times. Promo that clogs my notifications will never get me to buy your book.

Hello, Christine.

Here are the rules of this group with regards to posts.

"When posting your book, you can either do it within the "welcome" topic in your genre, or you can do it as a separate post that includes your book name (again, putting it in the appropriate genre). Either way works, but make sure you only post your book once within that category. (Multiple categories are okay as long as they apply for your work.)"

In this group, I posted under the ACTION/ADVENTURE and the THRILLER threads because this story falls under THESE categories. As you see, I haven't broken any of this forum's rules.

If you're talking about four posts, you would've noticed that they were in different groups. Not everyone in this group may be in others. But if you're in the same groups that I'm in, then it stands to reason that you WILL receive a similar post more than once. If this frustrates you, then you should complain to Goodreads. Your frivolous attack against me is pointless.

Kind regards,

Russell

Russell wrote: "...If this frustrates you, then you should complain to Goodreads. Your frivolous attack against me is pointless..."

Sorry, if you considered that an attack. I simply stated my own feelings about the extensive promotion on this site. I see all kinds of threads designed to promote books, so why create your own. I'm a reader (your target market) and I'm at a point where they just annoy me - there are so many of them - everywhere. I can assure you I am not alone in those feelings.

I know that "THEY" tell you this is the way to sell books. I'm quite curious - do these promos actually create sales?

Hello, Ms Christine,

Based on what you just wrote, I understand where you're coming from. I apologize if I came across a bit harsh.

I agree with you. There are many who believe that by repeatedly bombarding readers with posts about their books that it'll generate sales. I learned a long time ago that this is not the way to do it. What I've done is post my synopsis once in each appropriate forum, then back off. If someone shows an interest by leaving a comment, I'll answer them and hopefully chat with them.

Readers don't always buy books, they buy the author. And they'll only buy from an author they like. That being said, when someone takes an interest in one of my books based on the synopsis they read, that tells me that this may be someone worth chatting with. Even if they don't buy my books, they may recommend me to someone else because they like my personality.

As I mentioned earlier, readers don't ALWAYS by books, they buy the author. For the sake of argument, I'll use well-known authors such as James Patterson or Stephen King as an example. Very often, you'll notice that their names are bigger than the titles of their books on the jacket cover. That's because they've become so big in the industry, name recognition alone would sell their books. Stephen King has become a brand just like Michael Jordan.

The sad reality is that if Kim Kardashian had her name as a co-author of one of my books--even if she only wrote two words out of 120K--it would become an instant bestseller.

But I'm glad that there are still some people like you, Linda, who'll purchase a book based on its content and not fall for the name recognition thing.