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Post by cate on Apr 12, 2014 22:44:10 GMT -5
Hi Caddy - I just this. Okay, when you go to your author dashboard there will be a partial list of your books, and a link that says more books by (author name, i.e. you). Click on that link, and the complete list of your books will be on the page. Now scroll all the way to the bottom, and in tiny letters there will be a note about this being the complete list blah blah, and at the end of the note, it says "to add more books click here."
It took me flipping forever to find this link. I hope this makes it easier for other frustrated people. I find Goodreads to be not so user friendly.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2014 1:23:26 GMT -5
Hi Caddy - I just this. Okay, when you go to your author dashboard there will be a partial list of your books, and a link that says more books by (author name, i.e. you). Click on that link, and the complete list of your books will be on the page. Now scroll all the way to the bottom, and in tiny letters there will be a note about this being the complete list blah blah, and at the end of the note, it says "to add more books click here." It took me flipping forever to find this link. I hope this makes it easier for other frustrated people. I find Goodreads to be not so user friendly. Ah! It isn't the Author Dashboard, it's the Author Profile that the public sees. The author dashboard they don't see, it's where I update my stuff, the behind the scenes page. That's where the mix-up was. So, for other people reading this: Author Profile.  |
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Post by cate on Apr 13, 2014 1:28:11 GMT -5
Crap - sorry! I don't use it enough to know all the technical names. Thanks for clarifying. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2014 1:30:22 GMT -5
Nice tip! Thank you, Suzy, for it. Thanks, Cate, for how to do it. I don't have a description yet, but I did create it with the notice and link for new release sign-up. As soon as I have the cover I'll ad it, then the description. Cool!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2014 15:23:48 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. It's become a lot quieter lately. As for adding/editing your own books: you have to ask for librarian status. I did after someone botched up my series. |
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Post by Alan Petersen on Apr 14, 2014 19:23:57 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. It's become a lot quieter lately. As for adding/editing your own books: you have to ask for librarian status. I did after someone botched up my series. I did request and was added as an a "Goodreads" author last year. I have 16 ratings and 5 reviews of my book. Not sure how that fares or how they found my book since I'm not active over there as an author. I do like to add the books I'm reading on there and their reading challenge is fun. I'm doing again this year, but that's more on the reader side though. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2014 20:35:06 GMT -5
It's become a lot quieter lately. As for adding/editing your own books: you have to ask for librarian status. I did after someone botched up my series. I did request and was added as an a "Goodreads" author last year. I have 16 ratings and 5 reviews of my book. Not sure how that fares or how they found my book since I'm not active over there as an author. I do like to add the books I'm reading on there and their reading challenge is fun. I'm doing again this year, but that's more on the reader side though. Frankly, I just let Goodreads be Goodreads. It started out as a site where both readers and authors could talk about books, but it was claimed by readers as "their" territory. A few months ago there was a cleanup and some badly behaving readers who, in packs, attacked authors for perceived "bad behavior" and vandalized their book pages have been either banned or saw their reviews disappear. A kerfuffle featuring lots of drama llamas. To be fair: there actually were some authors who abused the system. Now it's a lot quieter there. Even so, I don't interact with readers there. I have librarian status and I maintain my book pages. I've filled out my author bio. For the rest I use the site to drive traffic to my own site whenever I post one of my rare blogposts. |
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Post by Becca Mills on Apr 14, 2014 22:05:46 GMT -5
Frankly, I just let Goodreads be Goodreads. [snip] Even so, I don't interact with readers there. I have librarian status and I maintain my book pages. I've filled out my author bio. For the rest I use the site to drive traffic to my own site whenever I post one of my rare blogposts. Same here. I advertise there in a very low-key way, just to get the book cover in front of eyes, and I go though spurts of adding books I'm reading or have read. That's about it. ElHawk over on KB reported great luck asking top Goodreads reviewers to review her books. But she's friggin' fearless. I don't think you could pay me to try it.  Edited for clarity. |
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Post by Rinelle Grey on Apr 15, 2014 6:58:09 GMT -5
I've asked some reviewers to reviewe books, but haven't had too much luck with it. No real problems either.
I do use it to mention my books free days, but I'm really careful about where I do it, and follow the rules of each group. If they say no author posting without group participation, I don't! I haven't had any problems, and have had found a few fans there.
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Post by Becca Mills on Apr 15, 2014 17:37:12 GMT -5
Maybe I'll put Solatium up there a couple weeks before it comes out, with the mailing list link. I can always delete the "review" if I get blowback.
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Post by Daniel on Apr 15, 2014 18:47:00 GMT -5
I maintain my books on Goodreads and feed my blog posts into it, but I no longer interact. I did a giveaway once long ago, and I did manage to get a couple of mediocre reviews from it. I also set up a group for the Magic Appreciation Tour, but it didn't get any traction. Some authors are obsessed with Goodreads and think it's the greatest thing for promotion, but the place scares me worse than KB. An author/coach I know is doing a book marketing presentation next month. Half of her slides are dedicated to Goodreads.  I must say that I like Goodreads better as a reader than as an author.  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2014 19:27:47 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? Suzy, Thanks for sharing this. I've made some notes about it in my notebook. I don't have anything due for release yet this year, but I'll have the info for later. ~ Aithne |
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