Publishing « Robin Writes

People buy books. People read books. But if people don’t ever TELL anyone about those books, no one else will ever know about them.

Sure, you’ve read a lot of books. And you might tell your significant other about them, or your friends. But do you write a review and post it publicly?

The two main sites for book reviews are Goodreads and Amazon. You have to have a FREE Goodreads account, but you don’t have to actually WRITE a review – you can just rate books. This helps, certainly, when people are scrolling for new books and new authors – no one wants to read a one-star reviewed book. Well, some might, if they’re into “awful.”

If you have a Goodreads account already, this will take something like 2 seconds to accomplish. Okay, maybe 5 seconds if you have to do a search for the book… If you don’t already have an account, plan on five whole minutes. You can do this, right? Take five minutes or less to let the world know about a book?

[Yes, I know Amazon bought Goodreads; you still have to post on both sites, they don’t automatically carry over.]

As for Amazon, you do NOT have to have purchased the book on Amazon in order to review it. Yes, you need to have an account and yes, it’s free. Takes five minutes. Then you find the book, click “review,” give it stars, then write said review. On Amazon, you have to write a few sentences. A whole TWENTY WORDS.

You can do this, yes? Here’s an example:

This was a great book! I loved it! Good story, fast-paced, well written. Can’t wait for more from this author!

Voila! Twenty words!

Feel free to copy/paste this, if you wish, especially when reviewing RHP books. Okay, just a suggestion! And, in case you forgot which books are ours, here they are, complete with links to Amazon – it couldn’t be any easier!

SO YOU WROTE A BOOK: NOW WHAT?

DEBBIE

INNSPIRING BREAKFASTS

P.A.W.S.

Yes, RHP has released our eighth book!

First, there was REDUCED:

A devastating biological agent is about to be released, to be tested in remote areas. Rumor has it, though, that there is more to this than meets the eye. One group makes plans to hide out, and survive, in case that rumor proves to be truth. Meeting at an abandoned summer camp near St. Louis, Missouri, a dozen old friends gather after the alarm is raised.

Life becomes more precious, more tenuous, as time passes. Government controls tighten, people are herded into the city…or killed. Towns are obliterated. And soon, the enemy agenda becomes obvious.

Abby will come face-to-face with death, bear the responsibility for a young girl, and endure the severing of childhood relationships in the most terrible way imaginable.

From mere concealment to reconnaissance to aiding a rebellion, where will it end? Will the entire region be decimated, and who will be left alive to know?

Then, we had REUSED:

Colonel Barton has been replaced, and the new commander is sending his henchman, Major Blake, to scour the outlying areas and remove any insurgents. Abby and the girls have remained in the cave at the camp, relatively safe for now, but plans are underway to eliminate all of them…for personal reasons, known only to the commander himself.

Soon, however, worlds will collide as Captain Alison Hinson is transferred in from Chicago. In spite of her background, Alison is horrified by the tactics of her superiors in the field and begins to question her own stance on the new government. As she puts together the pieces of the past, she realizes that she and Abby are kindred spirits, faced with a mission not of their own choosing, but of circumstance.

Across the country, while officials and mercenaries live the high life, the citizenry are faced with more sanctions, more regulation, and fewer necessities. Pockets of rebellion are quickly quelled, but incidents continue to increase as more people make the decision to go underground. Literally.

From abandoned caves below St. Louis itself to a subterranean river winding north into Illinois, REUSED will tell you more, perhaps, than you truly wish to know about the potential for the utter collapse of our civilization.

And now, RECYCLED!

The population was REDUCED.

But some were REUSED.

And now, RECYCLED:

Abby is enroute to Chicago to find the children, and she has one final objective: to defeat the government and take back her life.

But Jules is focused on another mission, to return to St. Louis, and to Mario.

Will Abby succeed? Will Jules survive gang warfare? Who is Riley, and what is her secret?

RECYCLED is officially being launched this Saturday at All on the Same Page Bookstore, and is available NOW – at Rocking Horse Publishing, at Amazon, and on Kindle.

And just to make is easy, you can click on any of my books on the right side of the page and order directly from there!

However, if you go my website, you can get all three for just $30. And I’ll even sign them!