@Naomi Richardson I almost hate to say the genre...it's categorized as horror. That said, although there is a horror element - murder and sexual deviant brought back to life to feed an essentially man-eating fungus - it is really a series about spiritual connections, regret and personal growth. But, hey, what are you going to do.... When I was working on the first book in the series, a decade ago, one of my friends casually called it "science fiction". I objected because to me that carries certain baggage. Yes...my antagonist is kind of a zombie, but I view the story itself, although impossible, to be a perfectly normal story set in a perfectly normal world.

@Naomi Richardson Good question. You know, I wrote the first version of this story a little over a decade ago, so parts of the process are a bit foggy. I actually started with what became the fourth chapter as a little standalone story. It was called Mr. Navarro Never Sleeps. It was simply the internal dialogue of a man who had died in a landslide twenty years earlier. I wasn't thinking about a larger story at all—just the idea of hearing the musings of a bitter dead man in his grave. He starts off somewhat sympathetic, but over the course of the chapter he slowly reveals, in a way that he seems completely oblivious to, that he's actually a bit of a monster. The next thing I wrote was the first chapter, where a stoner and his roommate discover some mushrooms in their yard that begin to enchant them. I wrote that one simply because I wanted a funny opening chapter for a book I hoped to write someday. Back then, though, I wrote entirely by the seat of my pants and had no real plan. As the mushroom story evolved, it somehow ended up pulling old Mr. Navarro's bones into the plot as a tool for the mushrooms. From there, the story just kept growing and connecting itself together. Honestly, Awakening is one of those books that felt less like something I constructed and more like something that dragged me along behind it while it figured out what it wanted to be.

@Ed Woods Well, yes. I know about the lip-syncing and dancing. That's why I chose in the past to not use TikToc. I've just never seen any videos that were book related. Just now, logging onto the platform and searching for books I see lots of folks showing me their favorite books. I'm assuming what David's method, the one that he teaches here, creates a different type of video. I'm hoping that is correct and just was hoping to see some of the videos that this group may have had success with.

@Sourabh M Your success is inspiring. Do you use Facebook Ads at all?

@Sourabh M I'm in the USA, where most indie authors I know have more success with Facebook ads than Amazon.

Is this the only feedback you got from Amazon? If the text of both books is the same, I can't imagine what this means.