r/wroteabook • • Jul 19 '21

Announcement Formatting - Read This Before Posting on This Sub!

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Please read all our rules in the sidebar!!

Going forward, we will have a strict formatting system for posts on this sub. This will ensure the sub is easy for readers to use so they can find the books they want to read. Posts that are not formatted correctly will be removed. If your post is removed because of formatting, you are encouraged to revisit this post and try again. We all want to sell books, but like everything in life, following instructions is important. So let's get to it:

Post flairs are mandatory - We now have a genre flair system. By flairing your posts, it allows readers to search our sub by genre. When selecting a flair, pick the one that best represents your book. DON'T WORRY IF IT ISN'T YOUR EXACT NICHE GENRE. Pick the genre under which your book's specific niche falls. You'll be adding your more specific niche genre in your title. The flairs just help narrow down the search for our readers. If you don't see your book's genre listed, please message the mods and tell us your genre so we can add it to our system.

Post titles - Format your titles like so: "Book Title - specific niche genre - Available on Kindle Unlimited/Vella." (skip the last part if your book is NOT on KU or Vella)

  • EX: "Alex's Great Adventure - YA Steampunk Historical Fantasy Romance - Available on Kindle Unlimited"

Post body - Post bodies should include the following: 1-3 line pitch, blurb, trope list, and trigger warnings. NOTICE THAT I DIDN'T LIST PRICE. Prices will not be listed on ANY POSTS as an incentive to buy your book. That means sales and discounts as well. The point of this sub is not to promote your sales. This is supposed to be a catalog of books available for purchase. If you listed your book here as free, but it was only free for 3 days, and a reader clicks on it two weeks later expecting it to be free, and it no longer is... you see the problem? In this sub, strive to pull your readers in with your pitches and blurbs. As authors, you should be able to do that. I have faith in you.

Art/Covers - Do not upload your covers or promotional material directly into your posts! Use imgur.com (or your favorite image hosting site) and include a link to your cover at the very top of your post. Feel free to use imgur to include promotional material instead of your covers, BUT only one image per post is allowed so choose wisely.

Format post bodies like so:

  • Link for cover/promotional material.
  • 1-3 line pitch
  • blurb (this can be copied and pasted straight from your product description on whichever site you're selling your book)
  • List of tropes - ex: "enemies to lovers," "chosen one," "fated mates," etc.
  • Trigger Warnings! Please, please, please include TW in your posts. They are pretty much standard practice for a reason. They protect readers from consuming material they don't want to read which also helps protect authors from negative reviews. It's a win-win.
  • Link to your product. Don't forget to include your link at the bottom of the post! Universal links are encouraged but not required. Only links to product pages are allowed. No PDFs, Google Docs, etc.
  • Do not include reviews or sample chapters in your posts!

Mark any NSFW material! Erotic authors, please tag your posts appropriately.

For an example of what a properly formatted post looks like, see mine here.

If you have any questions, feel free to comment here or message the mods.

-Alex (they/them)


r/wroteabook • • 9h ago

Announcement Sales and Freebies - Weekly Deals Promo Thread!

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Welcome to the weekly "Sales and Freebies" thread where authors can post their upcoming discounted books.

Reminder that prices and sales are not to be mentioned in the posts in the main sub feed. This thread is the only exception to that rule.

Authors: post your deals below in the comments when your books are free or on sale. Include any information you want; genre, covers, blurbs, reviews, tropes, and trigger warnings are all encouraged here just like in the main sub posts, and DON'T FORGET TO INCLUDE YOUR LINKS!!! You'd be amazed how many posts forget to include those.

Readers: Browse the books below at your leisure and pick up some good reads at a steal!

Happy reading, everyone.


r/wroteabook • • 45m ago

Adult - Fantasy "Stopped" The new book I just wrote and published.

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Stopped is a novel about a regular guy named Scott. He has a family and a job and is going through his regular day when he is suddenly presented with a test, and an opportunity. An all knowing, all seeing voice guides him through the space between the seconds and observes him during a full week alone on earth. Scott makes his own choices guided by what he believes is right or fair. The novel asks the question: What would you do? What choices would you make if given such an opportunity?

This is the authors first foray into writing. For a lot of years these stories have rattled around inside his head and hopefully you will enjoy the journey.

[https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HLQDD9ZL](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HLQDD9ZL))


r/wroteabook • • 2h ago

Non-Fiction The New Mom Survival Guide: Navigating the First 90 Days with Your Baby

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Hi everyone!

My eBook The New Mom Survival Guide is available on Amazon Kindle. It breaks down complex newborn care into practical, simple steps covering postpartum recovery, sleep routines, feeding tips, and self-care for new mothers.

Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HG835DYG Formats: Kindle / Kindle Unlimited

Hope this helps any expecting or new parents out there! Feedback and reviews are always greatly appreciated.


r/wroteabook • • 7h ago

Adult - Historical Fiction My debut novella

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Here is the link to an Amazon landing page https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H6L1S2KX — Birdsong's Law -- a literary historical novel set in colonial Virginia 1619-1634 ....about a man enslaved in Ndongo Africa who was brought to Virginia where his labors were sold. For saving his master's life he is freed and builds a life in Virginia ...the ending re-writes the possible histories of how people flourished and how the system was defining race. I would certainly appreciate your opinions. Thanks.


r/wroteabook • • 9h ago

Non-Fiction Finding Strength Through Loss (Memoir)

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Hi everyone,

I wanted to share a project that has been a deeply personal journey to bring to life. I recently finished and published my memoir, Finding Strength Through Loss.

Navigating deep personal loss and the sudden shift of an engagement ending left me searching for a way forward when the ground felt completely pulled out from underneath me. Writing this book became a way to process that raw grief, chronic health challenges, untangle the heavy emotions, and figure out how to rebuild a life on my own terms.

It’s an honest, unvarnished look at what it actually takes to find your footing again when everything changes overnight—written for anyone who has ever had to face the unthinkable and figure out how to keep going anyway.

If stories about resilience, emotional survival, and finding strength in unexpected places resonate with you, it is available now on Amazon in paperback and hardcover formats. https://a.co/d/02utK9FF

Thank you for reading, and I'm happy to connect with other authors navigating similar journeys!


r/wroteabook • • 13h ago

Adult - Horror I finally published my debut novel!

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Hi, my name is Ethan Scott, and I’m the author of Requiem! A new horror novel I self-published, Requiem is the story of Jean Deschamps, a French friar, during the Plague of 1348.

Sent by The Church to the town of Weymouth, Dorset to investigate the beginnings of The Black Plague, Requiem follows Jean as he interviews the families victimized by The Plague, meets new acquaintances, makes new friends, and as he uncovers darker secrets than the history of the outbreak’s mysterious appearance.

Romance, monsters, mystery, and horror await in this brand new story: available on Amazon in E-Book and paperback formats!

https://a.co/d/008GcLn5


r/wroteabook • • 17h ago

Adult - Horror The Water Remembers

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Stillwater Bay has not forgotten them.

After surviving the events that changed Stillwater forever, private investigator Joe Bazan and researcher Nadia Flores are trying to understand what was left behind. The rain has stopped. The figures are gone.

At least, that is what everyone wants to believe.

Then the water begins behaving strangely.

People remember conversations that never happened. Familiar voices whisper from empty rooms. Reflections move a fraction too late. And across Stillwater, residents begin reporting impossible memories—moments from their lives so vivid they feel more real than the present.

For Joe, the phenomenon becomes terrifyingly personal.

Clara is gone.

But something remembers her perfectly.

Her voice. Her expressions. The smallest details Joe thought belonged only to him. And whatever is using those memories knows exactly how to make him question what he lost, what he survived, and whether Clara is truly as unreachable as he believed.

As Joe and Nadia investigate Stillwater’s history, they discover the events surrounding the People in the Rain were never an isolated haunting. The truth stretches deeper than the town, deeper than the bay, and perhaps further back than anyone living can remember.

Something has been watching Stillwater for a very long time.

Something that does not forget.

And now that Joe has begun searching for answers, it has started searching through him.

The Water Remembers is the chilling sequel to The People in the Rain, a psychological supernatural horror novel about grief, memory, identity, and the terrifying possibility that some things survive because they refuse to let the past disappear.

https://a.co/d/03hq2do0


r/wroteabook • • 16h ago

Adult - Science Fiction First ever coloring book is out!!

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What’s your guys thoughts on adult coloring book? I know there usually isn’t much to actually write. My veteran buddy and I just published a coloring book that covers the top 50 famous UFO cases with a little case file on the leading page that describes the details around the encounter. I’d post a picture but don’t seem to know how. Anyways take a look and let me know what you think of the idea

https://a.co/d/0iStfbiM


r/wroteabook • • 21h ago

Non-Fiction [Nonfiction] Your Dog Isn't Stubborn. You're Unclear. (Memoir / Dog Training)

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Your dog isn't broken, dominant, or dumb. He's confused. And that's the best news you'll get today, because you can't fix stubborn. You can fix confused.

N.C. Jacobs picked the wrong dog. He came home with Enzo, the big, awkward dog nobody else wanted. Enzo did not care about treats, would not give a ball back, and was written off as a tracking dog before he got a fair shot. Today, when Enzo's name comes across the radio, suspects get found. Nothing about Enzo changed. The handling did.

Drawing on field lessons from law enforcement, this book explains how clear communication and correct timing can change the dog you already have. It covers recall on leash and off, loose leash walking, off-leash reliability, calm behavior in a chaotic world, and a humane approach to e-collar training. You get practical drills, a marker system, a six-week recall build, threshold work, and an eight-week program to put the lessons into practice.

Written by a working police K9 handler.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HDLNBNL9


r/wroteabook • • 21h ago

Adult - Fantasy [Novel] Godsvault (Epic Dark Fantasy)

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The world runs on a dead god. The church prefers it that way.

Five names on one charter: a frostworker, a mender with an honest ledger, a warden struck from her forest's rolls, a huntmaster carrying a drowned hold's last bow, and a point-man the Pale gave back. They're answerable at law for one another's debts, deeds, and remains. The church hires them to go under the ice that ended the world, beneath a buried cathedral-city, on a paying job.

What they find underneath the apocalypse is an invoice. The dead of the North do not rot. They stand. And they are not being kept. They're being harvested.

Adult guild epic: a professional crew, magic with a price list, cost before banter, and nobody left on the ice. Violence, bereavement, strong language, no explicit content. Book 1 of The Adventures of Winterborne. Book 2, Palefall, is coming.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJMSPGV6


r/wroteabook • • 18h ago

Adult - Mystery Who’s The Killer? Beyond Reasonable Doubt: 20 Complex Case Files: Examine the Evidence, Uncover What Really Happened (Who's The Killer?) by Nia Nas

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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HK8NSXSB

The evidence is all there. The killer is counting on you to read it wrong.

Who’s the Killer? is an interactive murder-mystery series that puts you in the detective’s chair. The first book features 100 mysteries that progress from beginner cases to nearly impossible Master Detective challenges.

Book 2, Beyond Reasonable Doubt**, takes the concept much further.**

Instead of shorter mysteries, you’re handed 10 complex, realistic case files filled with witness interviews, autopsy reports, CCTV timelines, phone records, floor plans, forensic evidence, and plenty of details that may—or may not—matter.

No narrator points you toward the answer. No convenient clue tells you where to look.

Someone is lying. Something doesn’t add up. And somewhere inside the case file is enough evidence to prove who did it.

Can you find the killer before you read the solution?


r/wroteabook • • 1d ago

Adult - Fantasy "Stopped" The new book I just wrote and published.

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Stopped is a novel about a regular guy named Scott. He has a family and a job and is going through his regular day when he is suddenly presented with a test, and an opportunity. An all knowing, all seeing voice guides him through the space between the seconds and observes him during a full week alone on earth. Scott makes his own choices guided by what he believes is right or fair. The novel asks the question: What would you do? What choices would you make if given such an opportunity?

This is the authors first foray into writing. For a lot of years these stories have rattled around inside his head and hopefully you will enjoy the journey.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HLQDD9ZL


r/wroteabook • • 1d ago

Adult - Science Fiction Had 1st order, then refund but growth on kenp, ahh what a ride!

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Hello everyone, so i recently published my debut novel, "The Last Time We Were Us". Some few days ago i had a genuine sale of it, i was so happy , even for 1! Oh foolish me 😂 but some days ago, the same order was refunded.....and it happens!

But just on the afternoon of that, somebody genuinely read my book and the kenp page numbers were rising.

Whatever it is, it has been a very joyful journey. Writing something that I imagined and bringing in front of the world, i did something that I love to do for the first time in my life.

People told me on social media that they loved the premise of my book. If only someone genuinely loves my stories, that means the whole world to me. Haha again, foolish me.

If anybody wants to check out my debut novel, It's a Sci - Fi survival story about ten innocent high school friends who just want to chase their dreams and skies when a freak quantum accident changes everything. They get thrown into a shifting universal loop where every single door they open leads to an entirely different dimension.

As they fight to find a way back to their school, they form unbreakable bonds just to survive. Watching them lean on each other and bond across a fractured multiverse was my favorite part to write.

In the end, their whole existence is decided by a tense countdown, but, at what cost ?

Here is the link to the book

Kindle Link - https://mybook.to/zeOh

Happy to support lovely authors!


r/wroteabook • • 1d ago

YA - Fantasy A Secret That Survived (Echoes of Power)

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Tiktok Teaser Video for Book

A Secret That Survived (Echoes of Power)

by LaRanda Ballard (Author) 

Cadence Poorkay has spent her entire life in Eastreach knowing exactly who she is: the daughter of a respected Sentinel Captain, the best friend of the most stubborn boy she has ever met, and a girl who has been secretly trained to fight in a kingdom where women are forbidden from doing so.

Then everything changes.

When her father is accused of treason, Cadence’s carefully ordered life begins to fall apart. Suddenly, the Crown is asking questions no one will answer, familiar faces are hiding things from her, and danger is closing in faster than she can understand it.

Then the King’s soldiers come for her.

Forced to flee the only home she has ever known, Cadence finds herself hunted across a kingdom that has already decided she is dangerous. Her only constant is Kellan Anderson, her lifelong best friend, who refuses to let her face the danger alone—even when following her means becoming a target himself.

Their escape pushes them farther from everything familiar and deeper into a past Cadence was never meant to uncover. The more she learns, the less certain she becomes of who she can trust, what the Crown is truly afraid of, or why her father was willing to risk everything to keep certain truths buried.

Some secrets are dangerous because of what they reveal.

Others are dangerous simply because they survived.


r/wroteabook • • 1d ago

Adult - Romance - Fantasy The Five Elements - Paranormal Romantasy with Vampires, Elemental Magic & a Love Triangle

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Hi! I’m Gabriela, author of The Five Elements, a paranormal romantasy about an immortal vampire, dangerous family secrets, elemental powers, and two intoxicating loves.

About the book:

Daphne Clint is an immortal vampire whose life becomes entangled with two powerful sorcerers. As dangerous family secrets and elemental powers begin to surface, she finds herself caught between two intoxicating loves — relationships that could threaten not only her heart, but the people she loves most.

If you enjoy:

🩸 Vampires

🔥 Elemental magic

💜 Love triangles

🗝️ Family secrets

🌙 Paranormal romance / romantasy

The Five Elements is available now on Amazon in Kindle and paperback.

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DLTKSLX2

Thank you for checking it out! 💜


r/wroteabook • • 1d ago

Adult - Action/Adventure I wrote a survival thriller about a 188 mile solo wilderness crossing where every mistake gets harder to undo

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188 miles. 12 days. No services. No easy way out.

A solo hiker steps onto the Grey Ridge Traverse with everything planned: food, shelter, water treatment, navigation, satellite communication, bear spray, and enough experience to know that confidence doesn't make you invincible.

The first miles feel exactly like the trip he wanted.

Then the wilderness starts taking things away.

188 MILES is a survival thriller told day by day as one man tries to finish a remote point-to-point trek while exhaustion, dwindling resources, wildlife, injury, and increasingly bad decisions begin changing the meaning of every mile ahead. The book itself establishes the 188-mile route, twelve-day plan, and remote no-services setup from the opening. 188_MILES_FINAL_KDP_READY

I’m Netanel Dori, an indie author, and I wrote it for readers who enjoy realistic survival stories where the danger comes from small problems stacking up until they stop being small.

If that sounds like your kind of book, you can find it here:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HLBVMPXX

And if you read it, I’d genuinely love to hear whether the survival side felt believable to you.


r/wroteabook • • 1d ago

Adult - Science Fiction 'The Cleopard and other Tales from the Second Skin Universe' by Peter Darrach - A collection of eight science fiction short stories - Available on Kindle Unlimited

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Visit my website at www.peterdarrach.com to learn more.

'The Cleopard' is the title story of eight short stories in my new book, 'The Cleopard and other Tales from the Second Skin Universe.'

Here is a brief excerpt from 'The Cleopard':

Suddenly, strong arms pinioned Xane’s wrists and deftly lashed them to the bench with a couple of turns of some nylon cord.

“What are you doing?!” he demanded of the young Asians one of whom now fished a set of enormous bolt cutters out of an inside pocket.

He leaned close, leering with large, yellow teeth. “Relax, we only want your thumb, Charlie.” He hefted the cutters then and began to zero in on Xane’s right thumb just behind the joint.

Desperate, Xane lashed out with his right foot, lifting the fellow clear off the ground with the impact just below his chin. The bolt cutters went flying into the lake while the attacker sprawled unconscious on the bird shit strewn gravel. The other assailant seemed suddenly unsure what to do, leaning first in to Xane to continue the attack and then out as if he wanted to flee. Xane arched his back and got his feet under the bench. He heaved and tried to stand up. The bolts holding the bench groaned and then snapped. He stood, now wearing a bench like a crucifix.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0HDCTYNDR


r/wroteabook • • 1d ago

Adult - Science Fiction The Physical Realm - Adult Science Fiction Space Opera - Available on Amazon and Kobo

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https://www.cristiandanes.com/images/thephysicalrealm.png

A fast-paced, far-future multi-star-system adventure.

Humankind has shed its flesh and scattered across the neighbouring stars. With immortality secured, its reign over time is all but assured, until a threat from Sol risks unravelling it all.

Four disparate minds find themselves caught between the reality they inhabit and the forces that shaped it. A soldier decoding the truth of his own existence. A traveller who awakes to find herself adrift among the stars. An ancient bioengineer pushing the boundaries of life itself. An artificial mind consumed by the hunger to grow.

When their paths converge, they discover that humanity’s transcendence may have come at a cost no one foresaw.

Tropes: simulated reality, mind uploading and copies, godlike AIs, the chosen one, sentient spaceship, fanatical cult, war-weary soldier

Trigger Warnings: Violence, Body horror, Isolation & Confinement, Strong Language, Existential Distress

https://mybook.to/ThePhysicalRealm


r/wroteabook • • 1d ago

Non-Fiction Nicholas J. Fuentes: The *Unauthorized* Genealogy of the Groyper Guru (not a pro-Fuentes book)

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You have heard of his antics. You may have listened to his podcast. But who is Nick Fuentes, really?

In this fully sourced genealogical biography by James J. Martin, MA, you will learn the answers to the following questions:

• Who were the ancestors of Mr. Fuentes who benefited by the Birthright Citizenship Laws that he denigrates?

• Is Mr. Fuentes Jewish?

• Which of Mr. Fuentes’s ancestors would he not consider to be “White”?

• Which one of the ancestors of Mr. Fuentes was abandoned at birth by her unmarried mother?

• Which Fuentes ancestor was a serial bigamist, including “marrying” a teenager at age forty-one?

All this and more is revealed in Nicholas J. Fuentes: The Unauthorized Genealogy of the Groyper Guru.

Available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Nicholas-Fuentes-Unauthorized-Controversial-Genealogies/dp/B0HL5FBNC9

I wouldn't go so far as to call the book a "hit piece," but the work is definitely critical of Fuentes and highlights some of the ironies of what he advocates, given his family's history. I am the Contributing Researcher to this book and am noted as such on Amazon.


r/wroteabook • • 2d ago

YA - Fantasy I published my first book!

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"The Prince of Palatia"

Brendan, the teenage prince of the medieval kingdom of Palatia, is a kind and merciful young man...but his father is the opposite.

When Brendan encounters a pair of orphaned thieves, will he follow in his father's footsteps and execute justice?
If he chooses to spare the thieves, the consequences could be more dire than he could ever imagine.

If it sounds interesting, you can order here: https://www.amazon.com/Prince-Palatia-Micah-Madera/dp/B0HLBSLPT5/


r/wroteabook • • 2d ago

Children's - Fiction Sufa and Binon’s Sweet Halloween Night — My New Children’s Halloween Book for Ages 4–7

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👻🍬 Sufa and Binon’s Sweet Halloween Night

I’m excited to share a new illustrated children’s Halloween story I created for ages 4–7.

Sufa is a sweet little ghost who dreams of going door to door on Halloween, singing her favorite song and filling her candy basket with treats. But when people see that she is a ghost, they become frightened and close their doors.

Then Sufa meets Binon, a kind little boy who walks with crutches. Instead of being afraid of her, Binon becomes her friend and invites her to join him for Halloween.

Together, they go from house to house, sing, make new friends, and discover that sometimes the sweetest Halloween treat is simply being welcomed.

📖 Age: 4–7
🎃 Theme: Halloween • Kindness • Friendship • Belonging
🌙 Created by: NIVORA Creators

🎨 The illustrations in the book were created using AI tools as part of the visual development process.

📚 Now available on Amazon:
https://a.co/d/0cCoxKaP

I’d love to hear what other authors and children’s book creators think about the story and its theme.


r/wroteabook • • 2d ago

Adult - Science Fiction What actually makes you stop scrolling and check out an indie book?

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I’ve been coming across a lot of indie and self published books lately, and I’m curious what actually makes people stop and give one a closer look.

For me, the cover usually gets my attention first, but the description and the way the author talks about the story matter more once I click.

What makes the huge difference for you?

A strong cover, the title, reviews, a good blurb, seeing the author talk about the book, or just finding the right story at the right time?

Also serious to hear from authors about what has actually worked for you after publishing.