Do you have a friend who is a writer and who has published one or more books either with a small, independent press or self-published, and have you read your friend’s book(s) and enjoyed them enough to honestly recommend them? If so, then please do so. Recommend them publicly on Facebook and/or other social media …
At some point not too long ago I created a document with the opening lines of all my books. I had forgotten about it but I just now came across it. You might enjoy reading them: “Painting can be an evil mistress. She can love you tender and she can love you raunchy, and she …
… So you read the first book, and then you got to that time period in the next one, would you wonder why there was no mention of the trial? It was too big to be ignored. It would be like a story about Money, Mississippi in 1955 with no mention of Emmett Till. So I had to retell the story but make it different—and believably so. I wrestled with that problem but finally came up with a simple solution. …