Testimonials

I participated in free ebook Friday and it was AMAZING!  Thank you WLC for everything!  I had a lot of downloads and got some great recognition.  

An open letter to Melissa Foster
Dear Melissa,
after several 'traditionally published' novels in Germany, I thought it should be easy to get an agent/publisher here in North America for my first 'English language' novel. It wasn't. I decided to go indie and regretted it very quickly as sales averaged about 10- 20 downloads per month for the next several months - until I discovered WLC on twitter last April. Through WLC I found your 'Fostering Success' course, Melissa. This has been the best money spent - ever. Not only did you teach the basics of social marketing to me, the computer dinosaur, with laudable patience, you got me into the Fostering Success Facebook group. This group is a constant inspiration and source of information, a friend in need when stuck with minor or major problems, and a lot of fun. I must say, your reminder to curb my expectations has helped me through the initial difficult phase when I sat on the computer for hours and saw only small rewards. Since April however, my sales are steadily growing, and if it goes on like this soon my writing can actually support me - which is a miracle, isn't it. So, thank you, Melissa, with all my heart. May God bless you and your family!

Melissa Foster and the generous authors, bloggers, and readers at the World Literary Café helped catapult The Last Supper Catering Company to #159 overall, #11 in Literary Fiction, and #1 in Religion/Spirituality/Channeling on Amazon the week of my launch.  Without their dedication to getting the word out through Twitter, Facebook, and an amazing blog tour, I’m certain my book would have remained in the shadows.  Indie authors, if you’re looking for a place to call home, hang up your coat, kick off your boots, and rest a spell.  The World Literary Café is that place.  Michaelene McElroy, Author

As a new author, I am learning things every day. There is so much to discover!

World Literary Cafe and all the wonderful folks that work here have been a blessing.  .  Everyone is always happy to help.  Melissa has freely offered her guidance on more than one occasion. .  I have participated in so many great, synergistic promotions, always with a positive outcome.  What brilliant concepts: authors helping authors, sharing the love… I’ve always been delighted with the result, whether I was participating in Free eBook Friday (thank you again!) or any of the other promotions for my books.

Thank you again to the team at World Literary Café : ))

I've said it before and I'll say it again, great website!

Melissa

I have been an on-again/off-again fan of WLC, depending on my time, schedule and mood.  But today I became a loyal, pretty-much-always-there supporter.

I paid for Book Buzz when I did my Kindle promo more than a month ago.  But today, to my delight, a WLC Book Buzz promo showed up several times through the re-tweet system. WOW, how lucky can a girl get!

In a small effort to balance the scales, I sent out all of the WLC tweets today, even though I wasn't part of today's re-tweets.  I will probably do it on a regular basis in the future.

You are definitely running a cool site/business/support service.

Thanks!

I had a great experience while featuring my novel, We, The Hidden - The Race Within on the World Literary Café site offering Free eBook Friday. All day long I heard the little tone my phone makes when a new email comes in. Time after time it was the Smashwords notification of a new book sale through the coupon provided. I also added more Twitter followers that day. Thanks WLC for a great promotion. -Terry LaBarba

As many first time independent authors do, I spent months fumbling around the internet searching for quality promotional information. Sure, I found bits and pieces, but when I discovered the World Literary Café, I had no idea the self-publishing treasure trove awaiting me.

Tweet teams, forums, hundreds (maybe thousands?) of other indie authors, promotional suggestions and packages; I didn’t know where to start!

The amazing social media leverage employed and Melissa Foster’s inspiring leadership both make the WLC a must for independent authors.

Thanks for helping The Fall of Billy Hitchings reach number eleven on the top 100 Amazon FREE bestseller list (twice), and the paid suspense bestseller list as well.

You found a lifelong fan!

Kirkus MacGowan

My book got 11,000 downloads on it's last free day, and I am sure it's because of the resources available on World Literacy Cafe. I used the twitter and facebook like resources, and saw my numbers rise throughout the day. I am amazed at the creative help this site provides. Whoever created it had all sorts of genius ideas, so thank you to them!

Thank you so much to WLC for the the fantasic opportunity to have a Free eBook Friday last Friday for my first romance novel, The Royal Sheikh and then an Author Feature a couple of days later for my second romance, Her Latin Lover. This type of layered exposure has been invaluable in spreading the word about my books!
Thank you again!
Katheryn Lane

My lastest event, a Free Ebook Friday with World Lit Cafe has been just as successful and stress-free as the others. This is a wonderful community full of supportive, knowledgeable professionals and I'm glad to be a part of it. A big Thank You to everyone who works so hard behind the scenes so we are all empowered to reach great heights!

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.