Pick a Book You’ll Love to Read
Is it more maddening to have no book at all to escape into or a book that’s as enjoyable to read as a trip to the dentist?
My available reading time is short. So short that I don’t want to waste a minute of it being disappointed in my choice of a read.
The times I’ve picked a book by its cover and description only to be foiled by enticing pictures and beguiling descriptions are over. I finally have an infallible system that gets it right every time.
It’s fast (but not faster than a speeding bullet). It’s easy (Easier than pie for sure).
Here’s how:
- Obviously, the cover and title have to grab your attention and pique your curiosity
- Read the description. Is it the right length for you? Not too wordy; not too scant; Intriguing…
- Read some reviews, but don’t let the reviewers decide your next read. Reviewers are human, too. You don’t know what kind of a moment they were having when they wrote the review.
- Does the author speak to you? Read a sample. There are several ways to get a peek inside the book (like Amazon’s Look Inside feature) or get a feel for the writer’s style to be sure of a comfy fit.
Take another moment, or two, to check out the author’s website. Do the covers and titles appeal to you? What’s their mission? Is there more information on the story? Like… why they wrote it?
If you like to nestle in with characters and visit them through a series… Is there a quick-read freebie or low-cost prequel available?
Consider the Sally the Loner Mysterious Misadventure Series. Through this blog, I feature a book in the series. And I offer a deal on an eBook. Like this:
What could be worse than getting shipped off to an Alzheimer’s Care Center where nobody will listen instead of to the broken hip rehab center?
How about:
- Becoming marooned in a city park when a monsoon storm struck?
- Get mugged of your taxi fare when you escape?
- Be kidnapped by your rescuer?
All while in hip replacement pain and getting around with a walker.
Meet Joan Freed’s 87-year-old spunky Aunt Sally and her sidekick they call the Sourdough Kid.
The mystery is not who dunnit, but how did Sally get into this mire of errors? And how will she slog out of them? Or does she?
But if you were to check out Sally the Loner’s webpage, you’d see that there is a prequel novelette to the series available. And you can grab it as a free eBook download if you do one of these two things:
- Click the picture caption on the website for a free download
- If you like to give your opinion – sign up with storyorigin.com as a reviewer.
The prequel looks like this:
Under the dingy, tattered overalls and threadbare red flannel shirt. Within the gray head that sports a wash-n-wear perky haircut. And inside the barn boots covering two pair of fluffy socks lives a little old lady who is a magnet of mysterious misadventures.
Her name is Sally Newton-Forester. She is better known as Sally the Loner.
These are her stories.
And while we’re on the subject…
If you’re an author in search of reviewers, give storyorigin.com a spin. You’ll be glad you did.
If you’re all signed up, here’s where to add your audiobook to an upcoming audiobooks on review campaign.
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