#PublishingReinvented 264 International Dublin Writers' Festival '25 Line Up + Another Book In The Running for $100 of Free Ads in May - This One Looks Very Good On Amazon

International Dublin Writers’ Festival 2025

See our line up for our 11th live event in September at this link.

I will be featuring a different speaker here occasionally. Here’s the first:

Joseph O’Connor was born in Dublin. He is the author of nine novels including Star of the Sea (truly amazing), Ghost Light (Dublin One City One Book novel 2011) and Shadowplay (June 2019). Among his awards are the Prix Zepter for European Novel of the Year, France’s Prix Millepages, Italy’s Premio Acerbi, an American Library Association Award and the Irish Pen Award for Outstanding Achievement in Literature.

His work has been translated into forty languages. In 2014 he was appointed Frank McCourt Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Limerick. Twice-Booker Prize-winner Peter Carey has written, ‘There are few living writers who can take us back in time so assuredly, through such gorgeous sentences. Joseph O’Connor is a wonder.’ Joseph’s web site is also here.

Our Next Candidate for Free Advertising in May:

The above is another of the books in the running for $100 of free ads in May. Each book will be shown in a post here. See the above book on Amazon here.

Do you think it will sell well if advertised?

72 reader reviews and a 4.5 star rating is a good way to be on Amazon.

If you want your book to be bought by others on this SubStack, all you have to do is post a link to it in the comments.

BooksGoSocial will decide whether to spend the $100 on Facebook ads or Amazon ads, depending on the genre. Only books with 5 or more good reader reviews please.

You will see from the comments & our updates who gets this and you will be able to track if ads work for that book!

Can you predict what book will sell with ads?

We will bid high too when the ads start so the book def gets seen!

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