Can you vote on your favorite and offer any comments or ideas you might have a. Dark Blue with watermark b. Dark Blue with arrow c. Black and Yellow d. Mainly white with Newtons cradle

Happy Friday friends ... I hear this so often I made a video to address it: "I just need to grow my social media and the book sales will follow." I get it. It sounds logical. But I want to push back on that because I think it's sending a lot of great authors down a very slow, very frustrating road. I was listening to Don't Write THAT Book with Mike Michalowicz recently, and his co-host asked him how he managed to sell thousands of copies at launch. His answer? 18 years of networking. Not a viral TikTok. Not a perfectly optimized Instagram grid. Eighteen years of showing up, building relationships, and earning trust. That is the part few authors who have big launches say out loud. There is no strategy that works instantly. But social media is genuinely one of the slower ones, especially if you're starting from scratch. You're competing with full-time creators, AI-generated content, and algorithms that don't care about your goals. That doesn't mean skip it. There's real value in social media — I use it myself and I believe in it as part of a bigger picture. But it's an amplifier, not a foundation. And if it's your entire plan, you're essentially outsourcing your book's future to an algorithm. I made a video breaking all of this down, including the numbers behind where book revenue is actually growing right now. Dropping it here because I think it'll reframe some things for you.

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Help with my pick of covers: Here is the back of the book summary. She wasn’t supposed to be home. Seventeen-year-old Callie Mercer stays home from school expecting a quiet day. Instead, she hears the sound no one wants to hear—a deliberate metallic click where silence should be. The security system is down. The exits are blocked. And two skilled intruders are already inside. They’ve studied the house for months. They came for her mother’s priceless necklace—a symbol of legacy and power. What they didn’t plan for was Callie. Raised by a Special Forces father who taught her balance before strength and control before emotion, Callie understands something her attackers don’t: survival isn’t about panic—it’s about decision. With police minutes away and no safe place to hide, she must outthink men who assumed the house would be empty. But the invasion is only the beginning. As hidden recordings expose a powerful political figure willing to erase his past at any cost, the real battle shifts from hallways to headlines—and from fear to consequence. This isn’t a story about revenge. It’s about standing steady when the world leans. They chose the wrong house.