If you’re a writer and reader, you’ve likely heard of the
popular site goodreads.com. If you haven’t, you should check it out. The site
is devoted to the love of books and has twelve million members. Among those
members, 410,000,000 books have been listed on their shelves! But here’s the
other reason you should join, particularly if you’re an author. According to
one blog, it’s a great way for a new book to get noticed, as demonstrate by new author Colleen Hoover with her first book, Slammed.
Hoover succeeded by first offering a pair of free
giveaways. From there a few prominent bloggers wrote about the book, spreading
the word to their followers (there’s more about these bloggers in the link below). The bloggers gave the book enough ratings for the Goodreads
search engine to place it on their recommended reading list. The book
came out in January. By summer it was on the New York Times ebook bestseller list,
and then Simon & Schuster’s Atria Books imprint took notice.
As noted, one has to have a lot of good ratings. Slammed had
20,000 averaging 4.4 out of 5. Of course, it
all starts with writing a good book!! To read more about Hoover ’s
success story in the Goodreads blog post, go to http://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/394-how-readers-discovered-a-debut-novel-a-case-study?auto_login_attempted=true
By the way, I invite you to visit my Goodreads page at Debra Purdy Kong
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