My name is Shane Lochlann Black. I’m a full-time science fiction and fantasy author. I published my first novel in 2011. I’ve written a top 1% military science fiction title, a #1 category best-seller, a #1 category new release and a #7 best-selling comic. I run my own bookstore and I have over a million words in print.
Like you I have found marketing for my books a challenge over the years. I’ve invested a great deal of time and effort to solve what I consider to be the only problem holding the author community back. I now have a large and growing presence on social media, with nearly 6000 readers. My audience is almost 100% male, over the age of 45 and dedicated to science fiction in general and military science fiction in particular. I have every reason to believe they would also enjoy military fantasy and thrillers.
My offer to you is simple. In exchange for your purchase of space in my content (in places where my readers will see it), I will read your book and produce a 60 or 90 second promotional spot for it. That spot will appear in one or more of my future videos. In the promotional spot I will endorse your book (in my own voice), say nice things about it and encourage my readers to consider buying it. I’m an above-average salesman. Getting people excited about buying things is how I make a living.
I will also include any required disclosures to comply with applicable law. Ad space will be made available in blocks of a minimum 20,000 impressions. It is possible you will receive more, depending on which videos your spot appears in. I will run your promotional spot until your impressions are used up. This will very likely take several weeks.
My requirements are simple. Your book has to be consistent with my own fictional content, meaning your story cannot have excessive profanity, explicit descriptions of intimacy, gore, excessive violence, content prohibited on social media platforms, content that violates advertising policies, any content that can be interpreted (rightly or wrongly) as political, and so on. These policies are not flexible, so if you have a book likely to inspire controversy of any kind, I’ll have to pass.
If you are concerned about my credibility, I’m the executive producer at Cold Beverage Studios. We are one of the largest and most successful independent animation studios on the web. We have delivered more than 1600 professionally produced creative projects to clients all over the world since 2007. We have a virtually perfect client satisfaction record. I run Getabook.today, which is my own bookstore, where I also have a nearly flawless customer satisfaction rate. I’ve been doing e-commerce since 1995. The advertising I am offering you has been generating growing sales of my own sci-fi, fantasy and non-fiction books on my store for over six months. It is getting easier and easier for me to regularly sell box sets in the $20, $30 and $40 range rather than the two and three-dollar digital titles other authors have to live with.
This advertising will be most effective if you have your own store, but I can direct traffic wherever you like provided the destination link complies with the above content policies.
We accept payment through Stripe. You can use any major debit or credit card.
There is limited space and limited availability. Many authors are interested in this opportunity. We operate on a first paid, first served basis. If you would like to take advantage of this opportunity, please contact me via email as soon as possible. Thanks for your time.
–Shane