Manual book entry: here.
Giveaways are now paid. You will no longer see who enters your giveaway but you can see who puts the book on their shelf and keep using this system.
List a giveaway: https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/new
Message during giveaway :
Message after giveaway:
No giveaway:
Descriptions:
What are your questions?
Alinka, I’m a little confused. How can we claim our book if it’s not yet released on kindle?
Maria, you simply go here https://www.goodreads.com/user/new?remember=true to enter it manually with the expected release date and then you claim it 🙂
It doesn’t have to be available anywhere outside of Goodreads for us to do so.
Thanks Alinka. As usual, so helpful.
You’r lessons are packed with such great information. Congrats Alinka. One question, what great prizes are you giving away to your reviewers?
You are ahead of the game, Jocelyn 🙂 More about prizes in https://authorremake.com/welcome/promotion-launch/5-1/ but you can do:
– paperbacks
– signed paperbacks
– Amazon gift cards (one higer value, several smaller)
– time with you
– mix and match 🙂
Thanks, will check it out.
Very useful module!
Thank you, AJ! 🙂
This module was very useful. Also I have some feedback from my own experiences:
I created my Goodreads Author Page. I loaded my Permafree book onto Goodreads. Within a week some kind person had given me a 4star rating. Then when I released my first full length novel and created a paperback version on Amazon, I created a giveaway for my paperback. It’s been running for two weeks and has one week to go. So far 250 people have signed up for the giveaway, 80 people have added my book to their “to read” list, and 6 people have “followed” me on Goodreads. For a totally unknown first time author, that can’t be all bad. If nothing else I’m creating a tiny slice of my “author brand awareness”. I know it is just a start… but “from tiny acorns….” And I probably would not have done all this early in my cycle without this training.
This is great news, AJ! The people who hang out on Goodreads are hard-core readers and if they like a book they spread the word. Many of them have blogs and post their book reviews there and all over social media.
Yes I can see this is the case. Unfortunately because my current genre of writing is erotic romance, I also have to accept that it generates less reviews and conversation than most other genres due to the “embarassment” factor. Even so all your points in this module are excellent and I hope other students take them on board.
I went to post a giveaway and I see it now costs hundreds of dollars to do so.
I’m not sure it’s worth it to pay over $100 dollars to give away one book. Yikes!
I’ve been getting people signing up for my review copy from Twitter. Should I just stick with that?
Hi Karen,
Yes, they’ve become much less author-friendly recently.
If you’re getting good results from Twitter, scale that.
Alinka