As I spoke of in Part 1 of this series, the only thing really that is stopping you from being a bestselling author is your thinking. Mental scripts that we learn from our parents, from society, and even from other authors and publishers often prevent us from having what we truly want from life. In the case of this series that is to be a bestselling author.

As an author, I hear three scripts over and over from both authors and publishers that I believe prevent many from becoming bestselling authors.

1. “There are too many free books available, no one is going to want to buy my books.”

2. “There are too many .99 books available, in order to compete I too must price my books at a very low price.”

3. “I know so many authors who have had their books pirated, it’s just a matter of time before my books are pirated too.”

4. “It’s impossible to become a bestselling author when there are so many self-published authors now.”

These mental scripts are just that, scripts. They are only true if you believe them. If you convince yourself that these so-called “facts” are reality then they will …

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Choosing the Best Excerpt? As Easy As 4 Tips on Erotic Romance with an Edge!

One of the hardest things to do when you’re beginning to promote a new book is choose the excerpts. Many authors just choose to post the first chapter of their new book, and hope that by the end of it, readers want to buy. However, there are a few things to keep in mind when it comes to choosing an excerpt, and these things will either make or break you when it comes to getting readers to buy your book.

Using PG and erotic excerpts from my own books and series, I’ll give you the top four tips for choosing the best excerpt that will make readers want to buy your book:

Choosing a great excerpt means you have to have written a great book. If your book is not your best effort, then your excerpts are going to be so, and no amount of trying to choose a great excerpt is going to help.

My best book so far is Bondage Slave For Hire, so here’s an awesome excerpt of the beginning!

“You’re free to go.” …

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Most of us associate Valentine’s Day with love and romance.

Then again, most of us do not know of the dark beginnings of Valentine’s Day.

And they were very dark indeed!

Valentine’s Day has its origins in the Roman holiday of Lupercalia which is a rather perturbing fertility festival. In ancient Roman times from February 13-15th Roman men, got naked, got drunk, killed a goat and a dog as sacrifices, and then took the hides from the animals and used them to beat women with. And to top it all off, young women got in line to be hit by the said wet, and bloody animal hides because Roman society believed that being struck by the just skinned hides would ensure the young women’s fertility. Then as if that wasn’t enough of a spectacle, at least from our modern eye’s point of view, there was a lottery, that’s right, a lottery where the young women’s names were pulled from a jar and then that young woman would spend at least the night in question with the man that pulled her name. Sometimes, if the couple really hit it off they would stay together.

Now during the time frame that the …

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