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Thank you for including my two submissions to the sale, need to have a look through everything that was included

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Hans - thanks so much for putting this together. It's already resulted in sales.

Thank you thank you, but I repeat myself.

I'm awful at marketing but taking a page from you, "what kind of a writer doesn't ask for reviews?" - so whoever thinks there's something worthwhile in the books, please put a review.

Amazon values your opinions more than your spouse or kids do. How can you pass up an offer like that?

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What was really appalling back when I was first reading, I begged a bunch of my friends to read and review my book, and they did, and then Amazon figured out we were Facebook friends and deleted all the reviews.

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Well, they had a policy about that. I suppose I should have said, "Amazon values your opinions more than your spouse or kids - as long as they don't know it's your spouse or kids."

As if trade publishing isn't a buddy system.

Certain writers (Hemingway, cough cough) were famous for cranking out blurbs. They all do it for each other. I doubt they even read the books.

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PS The moral of the story: go off Facebook!

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I'm probably way too late for this, but my teen fantasy adventure trilogy Dark Circles is on promotion Nov. 29-Dec. 3. Book 1 is free and books 2 and 3 will be 99 cents. If it's inappropriate for me to post this, please delete!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CJL67QPX?binding=kindle_edition&qid=1732750219&sr=1-1&ref=dbs_dp_rwt_sb_pc_tkin

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Sorry I missed you. Sign up for the Based Book Sale mailing list so you can be notified for the next sale.

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Thank you for having me on the list! A TON of great books here!!

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Based Books are Best Books and Hans Schantz is a total Gangsta-Level Genius💖

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Yay! Let the Thanksgiving begin!

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Amazing sale! Thank you!

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You’re welcome. Thanks for participating!

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Thank you for putting this together and hoping that we all make some serious coin this season.

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Thanks for putting this together @aetherczar.

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Just so you know, both this one and the last - I haven't been able to get the links to work at Jagi's The Unexpected Enlightenment of Rachel Griffin (The Books of Unexpected Enlightenment) (Volume 1). This is on the publisher's side, not yours, so I haven't commented until now. I'm not sure if it's my browser, brave, or what, but I thought I'd mention it.

It always says,

"silverempire.org took too long to respond.

Try:

Checking the connection

Checking the proxy and the firewall

ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT"

Not sure if anyone else has this issue.

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I don't have another link. Shouldn't have included it.

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No worries, you do so much you can’t keep up with everything!

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It’s on Kindle for $4.99: https://amzn.to/3B9ruic

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Silver Empire no longer exists. So that's a problem

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Ah, well, that would do it!

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Behold the Based Book Sale! (or) The biggest post on the internet! Tons of great authors here. Glad to be a part of it!

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