WESLEY CROSS

Would you like to read my books before they appear on Amazon?

In that case, I’d like to invite you to my ARC team. On an off chance, you’re not familiar with the term; ARC stands for Advance Reading Copy, which is a book shared with a few chosen people before its official publication.
It is incredibly important to get reviews on new books as soon as they launch. I’m sure you’ve made decisions on whether to buy this or that product based on their reviews—I know I have. But besides helping potential readers to make a decision to give an unknown writer a chance, reviews help drive early sales, and that helps to turn Amazon from a soulless spectator into a friend that helps with marketing of the book. And, of course, no one can help with Amazon marketing better than Amazon itself.
To help with that, I have a small group of fans as my ARC team members. They get the advanced copy of the book, and they are also the first people to see the finished cover (and, in some cases, if they are so inclined) participate in making some suggestions after I get the first draft from the designer. All you’d have to do is to read the book (which I hope was your idea in the first place) and to fire a quick honest review on the day of publication. That’s it.
Some of the readers have found a few errors that I was able to fix and others have made suggestions to the storyline that I’ve incorporated into The Upgrade universe. And, I hope, most of them enjoyed the stories.