It’s always exciting to get new opportunities: interviews, showcases, awards, partnerships, visibility offers. You pour your heart into your book, and when those emails start rolling in, it feels like validation. ✨ Someone noticed me!
But here’s the truth most authors learn the hard way: Not every opportunity is what it seems.
The Hard Truth
Once your book is out in the world, you will be targeted by predatory “marketing” and “visibility” schemes. I get 5–10 of these emails per day myself, often claiming to be the best media feature ever...