D. Powell
D. Powell asked Stuart Aken:

IMO? The attempt to get readers to read it, and get a review. I love to have feedback, even as hurtful at times that it may be.

Stuart Aken Getting your work noticed; that's half the battle. There's a website that displays the depressing statistics, live, showing how many new titles have been published so far this year: https://www.worldometers.info/books/ the current count is 2,034,975 as I write this. No wonder we struggle to find readers, when there is so much 'choice'.
Feedback, reviews in particular, make a huge difference to reader numbers, but there's a statistic that suggests only 1 in a 1000 readers ever bothers to write a review.
In the end, we have to keep writing, and hope for the best, I suppose.

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