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A Elemental Poem

My water's are churning,

As the earth is burning.



I sacrifice my life,

And am willing to die.



To save the world from fire,

I will explorer my desires.



With the freedom in wind and the discovery of water,

I will claim the earth with my elemental powers.

10 Free Paperback books and gift sets!

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We have a limit on gift sets and they are only for the first 10 reviews.  Sets will include a beautiful notebook and pin set, paperback volume with bookmark, and a coffee mug to enjoy a nice brew while you read.This set will go out as soon as our paperbacks are in print which should be around the end of Sept. or beginning of Oct.Please feel free to contact me by email if you have submitted a review along with your address where your gift can be sent. I will email you back to confirm you are in the top ten and to let your know when they are ready to ship. booksbymanis@gmail.com
Good luck and thank you all!  

Should we do paperback and hardback books?

Understanding sales and numbers are ideal when you are marketing but let's face it, not all of us are good with them. So I will try and explain this as simple as possible and hope that you can understand where I am coming from.1- Ebooks have had a decline in growth in the last three years by 20% on average. They estimate profits of 1 billion per year.2- Paperback books have been on the rise at 8% per year and they estimate profits per year on 2 billion dollars. 3- Hardback has also seen an increase in sales of 5% and an estimated 2 billion in sales. 4- Audiobooks are still a rapidly growing market at 34% per year and bring in currently about 1 billion in revenue.So which ones should we do? Well, obviously you want to go where the money is and where there is growth. Growth is in paperback, hardback, and in audio, but not in Ebooks. in fact, they are declining. If you want to be a serious writer and make money off of it, you are going to have to do more than just an ebook. Sure that is a great foundation to start with but you should look at it as just the beginning. Let's put it this way. One author has one ebook listed online for sale. She does a great marketing campaign, gets the word around about her book fairly well and brings in say $1,000 a month in sales. Pretty good yes?Author two has just published her first book. She has formatted her book for ebook and paperback. Same marketing but with her marketing, she is promoting sales for both the ebook and paperback. Her sales for the month are $1,700. If she had done hardback also she would have made $2,400.In the long run, Author one will publish three books, spend three times in marketing just to make the sales of one book in three formats. We all write because we love it. But let's face it, if you can make twice as much off of just one product with one marketing campaign then you have to go big.Think about that for a while and tell me your thoughts. Thanks for reading and until next time, keep writing.

The Adventure is about to Begin.

Now available for pre-order on Amazon  READ FOR FREE!!!
Get ready for a fantasy romance with paranormal magic and creatures based on the mythology of the four elements, earth, wind, fire, and water. Besides the powers of the elements, there is mage magic, witches and curses, ogres and shifters, and a whole lot more to this Fantasy Realm.

A daring action-adventure that will have you on the edge of your seat as Celine runs for her life. Packed fight scenes are full of suspense that will have you captivated with their elemental powers and magic.

Heart-felt characters who all have challenges to face and to overcome. It helps keep a contemporary feel to this reverse harem romance that is built around a fantasy world.

This paranormal romance is a slow burn but has very erotic sense. The mythology of the elements and their powers will contribute to the sexual content as bonds are formed among the characters.

This ebook is a Reverse Harem Romance Series and has a total of four books and one standalone edition. All ebooks will be published within four months of each other. The second book is due to release Dec. 2019

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A BAD REVIEW CAN BE POSITIVE FOR YOUR BOOK.

 A review works in many different ways. I want to give a little light to the general and primary reviews. Simple to remember and focus on.

1- You can't stack the reviews. All people have different taste, and not everyone should be expected to have perfect reviews. If that was the case, then what do we review books for anyways.

2- Your focus should be on the quality of the review. The description and details the person writes is judged just as much as the start. Stack reviews with all five star with not one or two anywhere in their number are going to look like fake reviews. The one thing you don't want your book to look like is a robot. 

3- Do not argue with someone who writes a negative review. It's just bad form. If they left a suggestion, then look into it. Use them even and improve and update the story in the future. Downloading a revised issue, you can work within remarketing. We learn from trial and error.

This week take some time and really read some of the reviews you have gotten. The good one and the bad. Learn your readers likes and dislikes, and if you can see room for imporvement, then go for it.

Someone told me earlier this week that the first impression is the most important. But we are all not going to get that. It doesn't mean we still can't live our dreams of being a writer. We just have more to learn and more work to do.

That's it for this week. Look for more post with general and primary information on reviews.

Meet Brier Reef, the...what element?

She is beautiful, kind, gentle, and needs my protection. Celine is everything I have always wanted, but now that is all too late. I am not fit for her and must stay away.

I can't be what she wants me to be. I am a broken element with powers that can only destroy. I refuse to use them, but all she wants to do is pull them out. I vow never to let that happen as she pushes me to open up. 

She is hard to resist and puts me on edge most of the time. She looks at me with a plea and a promise of comforts from a woman I have long forgotten. 

I will not give in to these needs of mine. Opening my powers would cause more harm than good and may even kill her in the process. 

Keep her at a distance. That is what I intend to do.

 

Introducing Lindon Mountainside, the Wind element

I have been going through the motions of life but not really living. Not after losing my wife and child during childbirth. Liza was the love of my life, and no one has made me feel anything since.
That is until my eyes fall on Celine. Things are starting to happen to me now that I can't explain. Somehow, I know she is the reason I am waking up again. 
I want to explorer these new powers with her. I want to wrap my wind around her and let it touch every part of her body. To enable it to take us both into its grace and free us both from what has been holding us back. 
Will Tate allow that to happen? He has staked his claim, but I am willing to share. If it means living again.

Top pick reviews this week.

#1 Book review this week August 26, 2019 #2 Book reviews this week August 26, 2019

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