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Post by Suzy on Mar 4, 2014 3:09:14 GMT -5
I want to share some info a friend has gathered from other groups on FB. They are mainly romance groups but I'm sure this works for any genre that has a group on Goodreads.
I always saw people do cover reveal events weeks in advance of their release. I don't do much with Goodreads (but maybe I should?)
These authors do these events, but beforehand they add their book to Goodreads (without links obviously, as it's not published yet, but with a description etc.) An interesting thing they do is that they add a review of their book - but not an actual review. They write in it: if you want to know when this book is out, sign up to my newsletter, and they add the newsletter link, thereby getting lots of sign-ups. It seems the author "review" stays at the top so many people see it.
Then in the cover reveal event they add the Goodreads link, which gets even more people to see all this and sign up.
Worth a try, no?
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Post by shawninmon on Mar 4, 2014 10:29:24 GMT -5
Yes, it is. Anything that drives traffic to my mailing list is worth a try. I've had a goal to add 50 people to my list each month and so far I am failing badly. (Two month in and I've added 56 names.)
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Post by Pru Freda on Mar 4, 2014 11:13:04 GMT -5
Aw Shawn, buck up. After 14th months, I've got 20 names on my mailing list and that includes 1 person with two different email addresses. Sheesh.  I'm not sure how you would manage to list a book on GR without it actually being published and I've absolutely no idea where to put a cove reveal. Although I'm a member of several groups, the place still baffles me when it comes to the author side of things. |
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Post by shawninmon on Mar 4, 2014 12:10:44 GMT -5
Aw Shawn, buck up. After 14th months, I've got 20 names on my mailing list and that includes 1 person with two different email addresses. Sheesh. I'm not sure how you would manage to list a book on GR without it actually being published and I've absolutely no idea where to put a cove reveal. Although I'm a member of several groups, the place still baffles me when it comes to the author side of things. I feel like a babe in the wilderness on GR's too. I keep meaning to put more time into figuring it out, but that time always turns out to be better spent writing the WIP. WHICH I SEND TO MY EDITOR TOMORROW! (Sorry for shouting, but this one drug out a bit.) |
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Post by Suzy on Mar 4, 2014 12:14:35 GMT -5
WAAAHOOO! that's terrific!
My e-mailing list is growing slowly. I have about 100 names after two months. But I figured it can't hurt to have a few...
I don't much like Goodreads. It's such a jungle that I get lost there.
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Post by shawninmon on Mar 4, 2014 14:46:58 GMT -5
Isn't it just about the best feeling in the world when you've finally wrestled a non-cooperative story to the mat and pinned it?  |
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Post by Suzy on Mar 4, 2014 14:50:13 GMT -5
Isn't it just about the best feeling in the world when you've finally wrestled a non-cooperative story to the mat and pinned it? The absolute bestest! |
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Post by Daniel on Mar 4, 2014 19:41:07 GMT -5
I'm not sure how you would manage to list a book on GR without it actually being published and I've absolutely no idea where to put a cove reveal. Although I'm a member of several groups, the place still baffles me when it comes to the author side of things. I don't know the answer to that either, but some GR reader or librarian put the third book of my trilogy into the system about the same time I started the first draft. There's no cover or anything, just five or six people who have marked it "to read." None of it was my doing.  Goodreads is a strange place. I tread lightly over there. The idea of mentioning the releases list in a "sticky" review sounds good as long as I don't have to rate the book. Readers seem to hate it when authors review/rate their own books.  |
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Post by Becca Mills on Mar 4, 2014 23:09:07 GMT -5
Isn't it just about the best feeling in the world when you've finally wrestled a non-cooperative story to the mat and pinned it? Sha. I'm going on a three-day bender when I finally get Solatium out there. (Specifically, bender = three days of lying around reading trashy novels and grading no papers at all. And cheesecake. There'll be cheesecake.) |
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Post by vrabinec on Mar 5, 2014 11:18:27 GMT -5
Cheesecake's a solid choice, but I'm going for custard in some form when I do MY bender.
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Post by Daniel on Mar 5, 2014 16:25:19 GMT -5
Cheesecake is one of our regular "celebration" sweets. For savory, I go for melted brie and roasted garlic on warm sourdough.
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Post by Alan Petersen on Mar 5, 2014 19:28:42 GMT -5
I'm afraid of Good Reads, I've heard such horror stories on how readers there can turn on you, so I pretty much stay away. But it's an interesting strategy. Sounds like a great way to build pre-publishing buzz.
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Post by Becca Mills on Mar 6, 2014 17:27:19 GMT -5
Cheesecake is one of our regular "celebration" sweets. For savory, I go for melted brie and roasted garlic on warm sourdough. Wish you hadn't said that ... hungry now! |
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Post by Becca Mills on Mar 6, 2014 17:28:51 GMT -5
I want to share some info a friend has gathered from other groups on FB. They are mainly romance groups but I'm sure this works for any genre that has a group on Goodreads. I always saw people do cover reveal events weeks in advance of their release. I don't do much with Goodreads (but maybe I should?) These authors do these events, but beforehand they add their book to Goodreads (without links obviously, as it's not published yet, but with a description etc.) An interesting thing they do is that they add a review of their book - but not an actual review. They write in it: if you want to know when this book is out, sign up to my newsletter, and they add the newsletter link, thereby getting lots of sign-ups. It seems the author "review" stays at the top so many people see it. Then in the cover reveal event they add the Goodreads link, which gets even more people to see all this and sign up. Worth a try, no? This sounds like a great idea to me. |
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Post by cate on Apr 12, 2014 13:22:25 GMT -5
I've done it several times. You go to the add a book link on the author dashboard - it's at the bottom of your list of book - then just fill in the info. I add a note at the top of the description that it is coming soon. I got quite a few adds for book one. I need to go do it for book two.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2014 15:11:51 GMT -5
I do Goodreads and LibraryThing give-aways almost ritualistically. I do garner *some* reviews that are cross-posted to Amazon, which is the main reason I do it. I'm truly debating about a netgalley slot - $75 for one month, $100 for two months. I did NetGalley for my first two fairy tale collections, but didn't bother for my illustrated single story books. I don't know whether it's worth it for my current book, which is illustrated (but other than the first 3 illustrations, which was the basis on which I hired that illustrator, I'm awfully disappointed in the other illustrations she did for me).
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Post by joenobody on Apr 12, 2014 15:35:32 GMT -5
I have trod many of war zone and hostile environment, and I don't dare make a peep in Goodreads. I don't understand the rules, nuances or prerogatives over there and have heard enough horror stories to avoid it completely.
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Post by Suzy on Apr 12, 2014 15:38:13 GMT -5
I have trod many of war zone and hostile environment, and I don't dare make a peep in Goodreads. I don't understand the rules, nuances or prerogatives over there and have heard enough horror stories to avoid it completely.
All of that, combined with the worst interface every designed by mankind, makes me happy to stay away. Me too.Never got that place. I was to lazy to do anything there but I might try this. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2014 15:42:04 GMT -5
I use their blog function because I don't have a website or blog yet, and it was easy to RSS it to my Amazon Author page. That's mostly all I do with GR. I did 'review' my second book because it prompted me to, but I didn't rate the stars (duh). It was a good place to tell more about the book and how it was different from the first in the series...moving from Coming of Age/Suspense to New Adult/Romantic Suspense. So if readers found the first book too 'dark,' my explanation told them the 2nd was where they'd start to see the HEA's they were after.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2014 19:22:35 GMT -5
I've done it several times. You go to the add a book link on the author dashboard - it's at the bottom of your list of book - then just fill in the info. I add a note at the top of the description that it is coming soon. I got quite a few adds for book one. I need to go do it for book two. Why don't I see this "add a book link"? I see add ebook/edit/stats but that is for an excerpt...could you please clarify this? Thanks! |
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