My book launch begins. There are a number of moving parts.

As I mentioned last month, I am using the promotional site Story Origin to give away my free, ever-evolving book, Stories and Poems of Trueterra. I am cross-promoting with four groups of authors. Below are links to these groups. Please check them out. These books are free. Be aware the authors will add your email to their list. As I said before, you can always unsubscribe.

https://storyoriginapp.com/to/MYUpSeq

https://storyoriginapp.com/to/Ame07RW

https://storyoriginapp.com/to/kBjz5xX

https://storyoriginapp.com/to/PIxeCHv

From the first list, I suggest Tales from Derian by Wendelyn Vega. It is very similar to my own in concept and a fun read.

From the fourth list is Clash of Goddesses by R.A. Goli. It is a bit of a reimaging of Norse mythology concerning Frigga and Baldur. It is 26 pages long and, I believe, a partial of a longer work. A lot of these free offerings are there to tempt you to follow that author.

When you click on a selection, you will get a box in which you need to click “yes” to acknowledge that you are sharing your email address. Then press the blue bar below to get the download options.

For the rest of my launch, I have mapped out things in a somewhat non-traditional way. That tradition is based on the old days of physical books only. What most authors do is get copies of their book to people to review it. That might only be a DOCX. Then on launch day, when the author pushes the publish button in KDP, they round up their reviewers to go into Amazon and submit their reviews ASAP. That is really quite an ask.

My pace is different. I published my book, Sword of Trueterra, last month at the introductory price of $0.99 for the ebook and the paperback at $8.95. I don’t consider that my launch because I didn’t tell anyone. I thought the book was as safely out of sight as if I had buried it in the sands of Egypt. Not so. The Sword of Trueterra paperback is selling  as well as The Vacant Throne paperback since they are now a series and appear together.

However, as of now, starting September 15^th until September 20^th, I am offering the Sword of Trueterra ebook for free on Amazon, a promotion that they allow, but only for five days every ninety days.

In other words, you can get the book for free. I am doing this in hopes you will give it a review (an honest review, please) on Amazon. You can put your review up anytime you wish, since the book is published. I want to have a good number of reviews before I “launch” during the week following November 1^st. That is the date I will “stack” the promotion sites (and I will have the ASIN number for them).

I will also use Story Origin for getting reviews. Say, if you want more free books, go to Story Origin and agree to be a book reviewer.

January 1^st is the date I will raise the prices from $0.99 and $2.99—end of book launch.