Testimonials

I never imagined there would be so much to do just to get a book launched. Ha! Besides the job which feeds my family, there was editing, book covers, layout and epub conversion, and so much more. But all of that seemed easy compared to the dreaded Social Media. That was what paralyzed me. Fortunately I stumbled onto WLC and Melissa Foster. Melissa and the fantastic team at WLC have shown me more in one week than I have been able to learn in two months. 

And it doesn’t stop there. WLC has built an entire community of people who want to help others. It feels like family, and there is nothing better than that. 

I started out at WLC by listing my soon-to-be-free book, and then purchasing a small ad for promotion. They were so helpful I decided to “risk” a one-on-one training session with Melissa Foster. That session was so great that I just finished a follow-up to dig a little deeper into issues I was too thick to grasp the first time. My fault. Not hers. 

I have already recommended this service to a few friends, and I can tell you that the Fostering Success program Melissa has set up is going to do wonders for many authors. 

My suggestion—if you are self-published, or traditionally published, and would like support and help, head on over to WLC and Fostering Success, and take a look at all the offerings. Some are paid (always ridiculously reasonable) and many are free. The best part is every one comes with genuine heartfelt interest in your book, and your success. 

Giacomo Giammatteo

jim@giacomogiammatteo.com

I was happy to take part in Free book Fridays. You got some free books, and I gained some new fans. WLC is one of the few sites that support indie authors,  and I support them!  

I hope you all enjoyed Run into the Wind!

Lynn Hubbard, Romance Author

I'm new to social media marketing and Melissa Foster and WLC have opened huge doors to the way I think about book promotion. I participated in Melissa's book marketing webinar, jumped in with both feet and participated in my first Free For All in April. My memoir - Growing Up Country: Memories of an Iowa Farm Girl had over 7,000 downloads and rose to #52 on the Kindle Top 100 Best Seller list and #1 or #2 on a variety of history and biography lists. It was great. I'm certain I would never have had this success without WLC. You were great to work with. I know I'll be doing WLC programs again but adding more layers - tweet teams, Social Media Buzz - and many more. Thank you, thank you - You're the best!  WLCRocks!

My first book, New Beginnings, was recently selected for inclusion in the Free ebook Friday campaign, with excellent results: my sales and downloads more than doubled overnight!

I hope that at least one of my new readers will leave a review on Smashwords. I haven't promoted my book's availability there before, so this opportunity was too good to miss and I can't thank you enough :)

Hi - Just wanted to say thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to participate in free ebook friday.  Some years ago I had nine books published by Mills and Boon under my pen-name of Rachel Elliot, but I've only just started to venture into the world of self-publishing.  I've brought out one book so far - Forbidden Love and Other Stories, which as the name might suggest (!) is a collection of romantic shorts.  I have several other books in the pipeline - including updated versions of my Mills and Boon backlist as I've recently got the rights back.

Anyway - of the people who downloaded Forbidden Love as a result of this promotion - I feel the prize for dogged persistence must go to this lady who was downright determined to get her hands on the book even though technology did its damnedest to stop her!

I'm determined to get the blasted book onto my Kindle . . . first had to join World Literary Cafe, then had to join Smashwords, then downloaded the book in .epub and sent to my Kindle but Kindle wouldn't accept .epub, said it has to be .mobi, so went back to Smashwords who said when you've bought your book go to your library and download the .mobi to your Kindle, but your book doesn't have a .mobi option so I emailed Smashwords and said how do I download the book to a Kindle if there isn't a .mobi option, to which they haven't yet replied and in the meantime I'm downloading it as text (I think) but as it's been whirring around for 30 mins so far I'm not sure it's actually doing it . . . but I'm waiting and hoping, and if it works I'll try and send that to my Kindle; but if it doesn't work and Smashwords don't respond with a good idea for me, then I don't think I can do any more. . . .so I'll keep you informed and, if the worst comes to the worst, I'd love to take you up on your offer of a hard copy version, but I hope it won't come to that. Anyway, look at the time! Beddie byes for me I think so I can read - must get back to Whit by Iain Banks - it's great if you haven't read it. I'll leave this thing on overnight to finish whatever it's doing and hopefully by breakfast I'll have your book. What a mission! Still, there wasn't anything on the telly anyway . . . .

Thought you might enjoy that - I certainly did - though I can't help thinking it's a bit of a leap from reading Iain Banks to my book!

Once again I want to thank Melissa for her help. The class taught me so much about how to use social media to its best advantage, I can't thank her enough. When I published my book I knew very little about how to market and have learned so much about book marketing from her. She's always there whenever I have a question to ask and has been a great help to me. Thank you so much, Melissa.

Give, give, give and it will be given back to you overfilling and without measure. That is what WLC means to me. I joined WLC after running into Melissa Foster on twitter. Not only was she a best selling author and a successful business owner, but she returned personal messages from me, an unknown person out in twitterverse.

My book was recently selected to be included in the Free book Friday campaigne and  could not have been happier! My book received about 30-40 new downloads which means more wonderful reviews!

This site has some of the easiest and most effective ways to help people market their books. It also great because helps authors and writers work together to promote their work. I really love being a member of this website.

This past Friday was the first time I participated and honey, let me tell you, this was the best thing I've tried.  I didn't make any money but I got something better.  I got two really good reviews.  It's so exciting.  I love WLC and I think Melissa is a genius to think this up.  It's another one of those win-win situations.

When can we do this again?

 I learned more here in a matter of months about promoting than I did in the years working for Llewellin Publications! This place is full of information and great people. Melissa has an energy about her that shows in the site and the people around her. Her talent and determination come through in everything about WLC. She has put together a great crew and a phenominal site! 

Thank You to all of you for allowing me on board.

Randy

 I am a new author who recently self-published my debut novel.  Solely marketing to Facebook and Twitter fans, one day, Womens Literary Cafe reached out to me to offer help in marketing my book.  I was so excited.  The first thing I did was enroll in the Free eBook Friday program as an author and found myself one of the two novels featured in the FIRST week of its program.  It was awesome!  I got more downloads of my novel in that one day than I had in the whole two months it's been published.  Now I'm getting comments on Facebook, from readers I don't know, that they love my book.  Without Womens Literary Cafe, that would not be happening.

THANK YOU SO MUCH, WoMensLit!!!!

I have written an entire blog post about all of the wonderful things I've found on this website. Check it out: http://www.murraybooks.blogspot.com  Thanks Lit Cafe for your encouragement and making it easy to connect with other authors!

The world's a tough place. Seems like we're always at war with someone. The old phrase, "Why can't we all just, get along?" comes to mind. Sadly, as much as we'd like this could be true, as a species, it just isn't going to happen. Too many mean people out there. Folks who want to be in charge. But, as writers, this doesn't have to be true.

I stumbled on this site after publishing my 3rd novel (first to be published.) After 10 years of rudeness and ill-treatment by the literary industry, I'd had enough. (If you're reading this you probably know exactly what I mean.) As a result I found a small, recently started publisher (PlotForge, Ltd.) and published through them. Being small I did much of the work myself and was facing a daunting, uphill battle. Just me, my awesome writing partner Terri-Lynne Smiles, and my marketing guru John Cote at RocketSocialMarketing.com. Naturally, I didn't expect any help from published authors. My experience had taught me they weren't interested in helping anyone but themselves.

Up to this point in my life I'd not been much of a Twitter user. But John Cote said I had to start tweeting at least eight times a day. So I did, and soon ran across this thumbnail on my Twitter feed of a smiling woman in a bright red shirt. She had tweeted something nice so I tweeted back. That's how I met Mellisa Foster. And that's how I found out that there are other writers out there who want me to succeed for no other reason than because they are nice people. People who operate on the principle that if we all get along and help one another, instead of circle our wagon, the rising tide is going to lift all the boats. And, make it a heck of a lot more fun in the process.

WoMen's Literary Cafe and The Nest were founded by Melissa and embody her principle, and mine, and my writing partner's, and probably yours too, that we can be nice about this. No, that we should be nice about this. We don't have to act like the people at the BigSix who are in mortal danger of losing their jobs over one bad book. She wasn't afraid to reach out to me. And because of her, I'm not afraid to reach out to you. And if the chain goes on, everyone benefits. Everyone benefits.

Sometimes it makes me sad that we live in a world so dominated by numbers. How many reviews do you have? How many hits did you get? How many mentions do you have? How many Tweets did you tweet? How many sales have you got? But, we do. Makes it feel sort of like a machine. But on the flip side, unlike in the past, we can actually influence these numbers. If you push, your numbers go up. And you never know when you'll hit that tipping point that will end with your book on the checkout aisle at the supermarket-- the pinnacle of literary success!

WoMen's Literary Cafe will help you feel like you're not totally alone in this. Yeah. There are actually people you don't even know, who care about YOU.