BookBoost: Indie Author Books and Promotion

BookBoost started in 2014. Book promotions appear on the site and on social media. I like the services there, both paid and free, and also enjoy the writing-related blog posts and social media posts. The free promotion involves sharing a post on X or BlueSky. The site includes other features as well. If you’re on BookSky, please follow Roberta’s Indie Book Finds @freeboostmarketing.com.

The Lorekeeper's Guild

The Lorekeeper's Guild is a free site for #IndieAuthors and #BookLovers to post about books. It includes reviews, message boards, reading circles, etc.

"Where stories find their readers. A free guild for indie authors, readers, reviewers, and publishing professionals."

Pride Book Hub: “Where LGBTQ+ stories find their readers.”

Romance and romantasy author Carly Bryant (aka thriller and horror author Carly Black) turned a love for books and writing into a free resource for readers and writers of queer books. Pride Book Hub lets users find books by trope, sales, pairings, representations, heat, and other tags. They can also avoid some books they might not like by filtering out triggers.

The site is vibrant and easy to navigate. Users can add books they like or wrote and even suggest more features.

For examples of the book listings, look at these from Carly Bryant: Taming Jett, The Inner Circle, and Loving Loren. Please help spread the word about this author and this resource.

IndieFiction.Com: 5 indie books you can finish in an evening

5 indie books you can finish in an evening: Inherited Death, The Reunion, The Unpleasant Realms, The Passive Observer, and The Acorn Stories. From Indie Fiction, "free exposure for indie authors." #ReadingList #QuickReads #ShortReads #ShortFiction https://www.indiefiction.com/lists/indie-books-to-finish-in-an-evening

Fall Reading

A newlywed struggles with mental health and job insecurity but finds joy in her artwork and marriage. A teacher faces bigotry in the small town he loves. Swimming laps in a pool makes a young man reflect on his life. Faustian legend receives a satirical update.

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Duane Simolke Posts on X

"Duane Simolke writes the way late afternoon light moves across a porch, unhurried, attentive, catching the small things most of us walk right past."

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Happy July 4! Here's a special show at my alma mater, Texas Tech University.

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Tweetables: My F in Life - update from an excited author!

Tweetables: My F in Life - update from an excited author!: It's only been a few weeks since I published my book but what a wild ride it's been! I have to admit, the whole process of uploading...

"Read these stories in sequence and somewhere around the fourth one, a quiet click happens."

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"Read these stories in sequence and somewhere around the fourth one, a quiet click happens. The woman behind the café counter turns out to be the same person whose cats run her house two tales later. The boy whispering in a backyard tent shows up years on as a grown face on Main Street. Duane Simolke assembles his fictional town of Acorn, Texas one piece at a time until the separate parts lock into a single shape."