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I Love You!

John Locke posted on November 23, 2011

A huge thanks to my loyal readers! I asked for your opinion about publishing a particular book and more than 500 people responded in 24 hours! That is just amazing! But even more amazing, I received more than 100 emails or messages of support for both decisions.

I’m not going to publish the book.

Those who voted yes gave me brilliant reasons that inspired me! Those who voted no told me tragic stories that hurt my heart.

I need to confess something: my book was not nearly as creepy and graphic as I led you to believe. But I wanted to phrase it that way because the subject matter was rough. While my advisory council thought I shouldn’t publish the book, they also said it was the best writing I have ever done, which is what led me to the quandary. So I wanted to get your opinion.

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Posted in: Action, Adventure, epublishing, Fiction, Horror, Nook, Kindle, iPad, Smashwords, Self-Published Authors, Dani Ripper, Donovan Creed
Tagged with: John Locke, Amazon, authors, book sales, Call Me, ebooks, Email Marketing, hostage, how-to, indie, Kidnapping, Kobo, Literature, marketing, readers, reading, Reading Groups, selling books, success, writers, writing, book marketing, ebook, Sony eReader
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Why I Personally Respond to My Readers

John Locke posted on May 01, 2011

I get this all the time: people remind me I only get 35 cents for each book I sell, and want to know why I take the time to personally respond to emails and website comments. My answer is always the same:

It’s good manners!

Folks tell me I should use an auto-responder or hire a secretary to do it. They say, “How can you afford to answer emails?” My response: “What does book income have to do with answering emails? No one’s paying my readers to write to me! Isn’t their time as valuable as mine? –Of course it is!”

When you read my book and take the time to click onto my website and leave your name and email address, and tell me you loved my book—how could I not thank you? You paid money to read my book! You gave up your time to read it! That’s a gift of time you’ll never get back.

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Posted in: Book Marketing, Nook, Kindle, iPad, Self-Published Authors, Authors, ebooks
Tagged with: Email Marketing, Literature, readers, Reading Groups, writing, Arts, manners, Sony Reader, time, time management
 

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John Locke

Author of the Best Selling Donovan Creed Series of Books, Emmett Love Westerns, and Dani Ripper Novels.

  • NY TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR!
  • 8th MEMBER of the KINDLE MILLION SALES CLUB!
  • First self-published author to hit #1 on Amazon/Kindle!
  • First self-published author to hit Kindle Million Sales Club!
  • John sold 1,100,000 eBooks in 5 months by word of mouth!

John wrote and published 6 best-selling books in 3 separate genres in 6 months, part-time! He has had 4 of the top 10 eBooks on Amazon/Kindle at the same time, including #1 and #2! He’s also had 6 of the top 20, and 8 of the top 43 at the same time! Every eBook John Locke has written and published has become a best-seller.

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