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The moment Fort Lasthall finally appeared at the far end of the dirt road, Jak halted with his barrow full of books.

For all his childhood, Jak had drifted from village to village. He’d slept beneath trees or in haylofts or sheltered ditches. He’d been a helper to a bootblack, a fetcher, and a costermonger, and all that before he was ten winters. He’d stayed in so many places, but he’d never thought them as home. His books were his only possessions, and with them he’d wandered.<. .>

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    As a "God-King" and "Dragon" level supporter Blood Dawn, it should be pretty obvious I am VERY excited for this book and HIGHLY recommend it! I am quite obviously a lover of Epic Fantasy, and the fantastic world Robin has created with Blood Dawn will undoubtedly enchant and enliven the minds of readers for ages to come! 

    I have been geeking out on all the updates and for those who are as excited as me, I am of the House Mastion, one of the strongest, most widespread houses of Powrend who controlled the trade of relics from the Mines of Emwallin during the height of Azzadul's reign; AND Dragon Zamisha Zhon (The Old One), builder of dreamscapes, and longest living dragon (some say more than one million years) who claims his birth from the dawn of time! 

    As you can see, there is only one word to adequately describe Blood Dawn: EPIC!

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      Very excited for this book to come out! As a long time fan of urban Fantasy/Sci-Fi RPG's I'd also love to see this made into a full fledged table top game, too!
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      I did a little breakdown on a Goodreads thread a while back to try and figure out where most of my orders were coming from. As I recall, the vast majority were from individual requests online. I sent a LOOOOOT of personalized (i.e. "Hey Katie, I saw your last video of you Irish step dancing and it was so cool! I hope I get to see you in person one of these days. Let me know the next time you have a show.
      I'm sending you a message because I wrote a book, and I'm hoping you'll give it a chance and check it out." etc etc) messages to individual people, and that method brought in the most orders. And giving away stuff, too. Everyone likes a contest or giveaway.

      I got a pretty good response for a few days from pitches, but then it trailed off and no one was responded to those anymore. I think everyone just started sending out so many pitches that people started ignoring them.

      I constantly remember a piece of advice from Lindsey Buroker, a self-publishing author that I really respect and admire - she said you pretty much have to hand-sell your first 1000 copies. If you're an unknown author, you have to just go order by order, one person at a time. It's gonna be hard.

      But if each of us can get you an order or five, that will help!

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        @Amanda Orneck Here's my take on it; find your niche. Jamison had tremendous success going to cons and leveraging his in-person presence. Brian Guthrie had similar success by pushing his massive Facebook following and a knack for communicating online. Like Jamison says; it takes a specific personality to do what he did and that can be said of any kind of successful endeavour. You might not have it in you to do what he did, or what Brian did, but you may very well have something completely different yet equally as potentially successful. Look to your strength and find out how to use them to find new readers. 

        The one thing both Jamison and Brian, and anyone else who's found success in these campaigns, have in common is perseverance and an ability to find and engage with new groups of people. If you can do that, you can probably sell your book.

        Good luck.
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