I am still wondering what pushed, one of my authors to write me a traditional letter.
Yes, a very traditional letter, not an email message, but a paper sheet that author Cameron Carr typed from his PC desktop to simply tell me thanks! I sent the letter from Canada to my address in Italy. I read the letter in one breath, carefully, as if Cameron were here, in front of me, in Italy. He signed the letter with his handwritten signature, also the greetings were handwritten . Only the body of the letter has been written with the PC keyboard because Cameron was much tired.
He is a self-published author who works to earn a living. I received the letter during the Easter holiday, but I could publish the letter only these days, due to my previous commitments to promote new authors in Italy and Europe.
As I said, I am still asking myself the reasons of this letter.
The main reasons are just inside the words written by Cameron.
He is a very courageous man, because suffered from mental illness in the past and decided to tell his story in a book I reviewed and promoted last year.
You can see my review here and my press release at this link.
Here is what Cameron wrote to me:” I’m finally sitting down to write you a letter to say thank-you and, hi! I feel I must thank you in a more personal way than email, because you have helped me greatly in what I am trying to do. I am really trying to spread information about mental illness, particularly the disease known as schizophrenia…”. In the letter, Cameron opened his heart to talk about his disease and his battle to take his experience and his book to many hands, in order to raise the mindfulness about mental illness, especially schizophrenia, known as one among the most severe mental diseases.
Cameron won his hard battle against his mental problem and for this, he decided to help other people with the same problems through his book titled The Diabolic Labyrinth my walk with Schizophrenia.
I only helped Cameron to spread information about his literary work. The book is now searched from readers on the search engines and I really hope that it becomes a bestseller very soon.
In the envelope, I found also cards from Canada (the author lives in that Country) and one of his paintings ( see the image). Cameron is also a painter! Writer and painter, the most creative jobs!
I hope that people buy not only his book, but also his paintings.
Sometimes people blamed me because I ask for money for my book promotion services, a small amount of money, from 5 to 50 euros, the most of the times, is only to support this literary blog and not to steal pennies to people. I am not interested in this.
Fierce and pointless digital marketing is not my priority, I want only to talk about useful books and help authors make their works known in Italy and Europe, also.
Books open our mind and delay brain aging.
They ever hurt and killed nobody!
I think that Cameron did a great job with his book!
For this reason I published his sweet gesture to write me a letter.
There is not publicity in this post, nor seo, neither something other reason but to say my thanks to Cameron for appreciating my book promotion job as much as I appreciated his book.
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Rosalba Mancuso is the journalist, born in Sicily, who founded three online magazines in English. On Advicebooks Book Reviews, Rosalba shows her great passion for books, helping readers and book lovers choose and buy the best books she read and reviewed. She also worked as a contributor to print and online magazines and as a bilingual Italian-English writer. Here, Rosalba also offers room to authors and publishers who want to get their books reviewed through the voice of an avid reader like her. You must also know that this book review magazine lives thanks to your help. Rosalba, in fact, earns a small commission, with no cost for you, when you buy books through the affiliate links you find in her book reviews. This book review magazine is also funded by services of editorial reviews and book press releases.
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Hello There. I found your blog using bing. This is an extremely well written article. I’ll be sure to bookmark it and come back to read more of your useful information. Thanks for the post.I’ll definitely return.
Rosalba…you reviewed my book without my knowledge and since then things have really taken off for me. You get paid to review books without guaranteeing a positive outcome, but mine you reviewed without asking anything! I know you do what you do because you love books and writing, not for money and that you are honest in your opinions. People respect what you think. I’m honoured that you enjoyed my book. (love your use of my native tongue btw )…thank you once again!!
Hi Cameron, yes, I do paid book reviews, also, when authors send review requests. I review books for free only when I choose books from the Internet. Payment is only to support my website, not to get biased opinions. An unique review can’t assure sales to new books. Only a book promotion strategy can assure exposure and sales in the long run. For this I tell you thanks for using my press release service. Only famous authors sell books quickly. Thank you so much again for appreciating my job.