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Post by Alan Petersen on Feb 13, 2014 15:01:44 GMT -5
That's strange. When I submitted, I had 42 reviews and an average of 4.7 or something. Those reviews came from an earlier Bookblast promo I did in August. As a result of this, I have this strategy; 1) publish book, 2) do a Bookblast promo two months later, which will get you a lot of reviews. Then: 3) do the Bookbub about 4 months after the Bookblast. The Bookblast will push you up enough for Bookbub to accept you. But you have multiple books published all with good reviews. I think BookBub sees my one book with good overall reviews, but that's it, so they don't put as much stock on those reviews as if I had more of a track record. That's my opinion of course. I've seen books with less reviews than I had get picked up by BookBub, but the author had several other books so overall they had much better reviews than me. |
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Post by Suzy on Feb 13, 2014 15:06:00 GMT -5
That's strange. When I submitted, I had 42 reviews and an average of 4.7 or something. Those reviews came from an earlier Bookblast promo I did in August. As a result of this, I have this strategy; 1) publish book, 2) do a Bookblast promo two months later, which will get you a lot of reviews. Then: 3) do the Bookbub about 4 months after the Bookblast. The Bookblast will push you up enough for Bookbub to accept you. But you have multiple books published all with good reviews. I think BookBub sees my one book with good overall reviews, but that's it, so they don't put as much stock on those reviews as if I had more of a track record. That's my opinion of course. I've seen books with less reviews than I had get picked up by BookBub, but the author had several other books so overall they had much better reviews than me. I don't know what criteria they go by. I suppose having lot of books with good reviews would help. But I've seen books with very few reviews on Bookbub too. I think you just have to keep submitting. |
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Post by Becca Mills on Feb 13, 2014 15:17:11 GMT -5
That's strange. When I submitted, I had 42 reviews and an average of 4.7 or something. Those reviews came from an earlier Bookblast promo I did in August. As a result of this, I have this strategy; 1) publish book, 2) do a Bookblast promo two months later, which will get you a lot of reviews. Then: 3) do the Bookbub about 4 months after the Bookblast. The Bookblast will push you up enough for Bookbub to accept you. I've heard before that really prefer authors with multiple books. I haven't bothered applying for that reason. (Not sure they're great for fantasy, anyway.) |
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