Such a dizzying number of Christian books on Amazon! How do you choose books that you want to buy? Do you only buy from favourite authors or take risks on new ones? The cost of an ebook can be from zero to just a few dollars so the options are more than anyone could read in a lifetime.
Writers are told that their book will sell better with a good cover. Perhaps that can be true, but what constitutes are 'good cover'? So many books for women seem to be about Amish communities and feature winsome young girls in bonnets on the cover. I can't say that would draw me in, but clearly it does for many.
Do you only read best sellers? Promotions by known magazines and blogs put out their recommendations. I must say, I have been disappointed by many of these. Some of the stories of visions and dancing in the heavenlies or celebrated fiction stories, have astonished me with their shallow story lines, or vague and debatable doctrinal substance. Are they 'best sellers' because someone has said they are?
There is one upside, it can motivate a writer to write better than this and hope that one day, some random reader will enjoy something they took a chance on from deep in the slush piles of Amazon's Indie writers and will say, 'take this to Daddy!' And some mega book promoting father will indulge their child and promote this obscure story, making it a 'best seller'. Well, I can dream...........
Writers are told that their book will sell better with a good cover. Perhaps that can be true, but what constitutes are 'good cover'? So many books for women seem to be about Amish communities and feature winsome young girls in bonnets on the cover. I can't say that would draw me in, but clearly it does for many.
Do you only read best sellers? Promotions by known magazines and blogs put out their recommendations. I must say, I have been disappointed by many of these. Some of the stories of visions and dancing in the heavenlies or celebrated fiction stories, have astonished me with their shallow story lines, or vague and debatable doctrinal substance. Are they 'best sellers' because someone has said they are?
There is one upside, it can motivate a writer to write better than this and hope that one day, some random reader will enjoy something they took a chance on from deep in the slush piles of Amazon's Indie writers and will say, 'take this to Daddy!' And some mega book promoting father will indulge their child and promote this obscure story, making it a 'best seller'. Well, I can dream...........