CJ Simone

You guys!!! I have reached a huge milestone of 10k orders on the Zon for my 4 #thriller books!!! So much love to all who've taken a chance on a no-name's books!!!😮🙏🥳😍

It's my novel second birthday. 🥹

@DonSimkovich Ha, I don't really know. It's mostly been thanks to the Zon, I think. Doing promos and having a series w/ good read through helps, along w/ discounting them/giving one away often so readers grab all of them.

@CJSimone333 Why do you think they went so well?

You guys!!! I have reached a huge milestone of 10k orders on the Zon for my 4 #thriller books!!! So much love to all who've taken a chance on a no-name's books!!!😮🙏🥳😍

@BruceRF1 Thank you!

@CJSimone333 Congrats 👏🎉

@namaferd @BruceRF1 It's mostly been what the Zon does, I think. It's also helped to do promos and to have a series (I frequently discount them or give one away) b/c readers tend to grab them all. Read-through has been high. It was going really well till the new barrage of AI books.

@CJSimone333 @BruceRF1 Holy cow! What is your marketing secret please?

@BloodyRedBaron Wow, you have over a thousand books?

@CJSimone333 I'm a writer. I'd like to talk to you about your achievement. amazon.com/dp/B0GRJKGZZN

@graestonewriter I hear links hamper our reach on X, which is a shame.

@CJSimone333 CJ, always provide a link to make it easy to look inside.

@BloodyRedBaron It's Amazon. Since X is said to limit the reach of posts that mention Amazon, many of us call it the Zon on X.

@CJSimone333 What's the Zon?

@deanpb_author ❤️

@CJSimone333 Congratulations, that's one heck of a milestone

@LaughingRoguePA Thanks so much!

@CJSimone333 I'm still building the audience, but I hope to get there soon! Congrats, and I wish you all the success you can reach!

@byrdbritt Thanks!

@CJSimone333 Congratulations -

@NymCoy Thank you!

@CJSimone333 Congrats! So jealous!

@RIPattermoore ❤️

@CJSimone333 Congrats! Since I started in 2023, I have sold 75 via Amazon. If you count all platforms, it’s 108. I cannot wait until I get to 10,000.

@SarahMayIsom Thank you so much my fellow thriller writer!❤️

@CJSimone333 10k is incredible—congratulations!! 🎉 Love seeing thriller authors win like this.

@SPwrite ❤️

@CJSimone333 Congratulations!!! 🎊

@DylanWestAuthor Thank you!❤️

@CJSimone333 Congrats!

@FlissZak ❤️

@TAR_Kirk @TheOfficialJOTS @AuthorTRobare 😂

@CJSimone333 @TheOfficialJOTS That's wild! I swear @AuthorTRobare has that same poster hanging in his room to this very day!

I find it amazing they still got us out here apologizing for loving gorgeous women and their features. I'm a grown ass man; the fuck do you expect? Oh, you're gonna roll up on me and TELL ME WHAT TO DO? Got me fucked up. All y'all got INSANE audacity, I swear to God

@TiltAtGiants @AlyssaMatesic I don't read as if I'm them either, but I still love to read first person & write in it. Also, since I often write unreliable narrators, I don't want you to agree with everything they're telling you to feel. But my MC Gabe in his mania can make some readers feel too overwhelmed.

My issue is when first person is trying to subvert the mind of the reader. It is one thing to be told a story, it is another to be replaced by the character. Personally, I dislike the obsession with removing distance between the reader and characters. I am not them, nor do I want to be them. This is partocularly bad if I don't agree with any interpretation the character is telling me to feel. It becomes like second person, or psychosis.

It's undeniable: first person novels are EVERYWHERE. And some people aren't here for it, calling first person writing "lazy" and "juvenile." But does more first person mean the death of the modern novel? I'm not so sure... youtu.be/WmcnL_kFhMQ

@TheVikingSkald Thank you!

@CJSimone333 That's amazing! Well done.

@AlisonLyleBooks Thank you so much!

@CJSimone333 Congratulations!!