Dragnet Marketing

So last night I was binge watching Dragnet and waiting with baited breath to see if two officers shot in a botched liquor store robbery were going to live. As the pretty, young wife of one of the officers broke down and sobbed while the older wife of the other officer comforted her, the phone rang.

It was Readersmagnet, a book marketing firm.

We had a long talk.  It turns out that for $650 Readersmagnet will do some first rate marketing of my books. This includes book fairs, email blasts, deep contacts withing the world of literary and publicity agents.

Is it a scam? Not technically, though until recently Readersmagnet was in NYC and had just relocated to San Diego, suggesting that they're on the run from New York AG Erich Schneidermann.

Eager to see the end of Dragnet I said I didn't think the service was for me and hung up.

Young aspiring authors, Don't. Just don't. You don't need these services and you don't need marketing.

Right now World War 1990: Anzacs is in the top 20 in its category on three continents. You know what we've spent to market Anzacs? Zip. Zilch. Nada. Nothing.

The book is selling itself though this blog, my Gab.ai account, FB and Amazon.

By the way, the young officer lived but the older one passed. The shooter was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death.