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Jessica's comments from the Goodreads Author Outreach Project group.
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We'll be interviewing Jasper Fforde, author of The Eyre Affair (the Thursday Next series) and The Big Over Easy (the Nursery Crime series), about his new book, Shades of Grey. Post any questions you have for Jasper here!
Audrey Niffenegger has a new book: Her Fearful Symmetry. I'll be interviewing her for our October Goodreads newsletter. For those of you who are fans of The Time Traveler's Wife, let me know if you have questions for her!
Any Nick Hornby readers in the group? I'll be interviewing Nick for our October newsletter. He has a new book coming out: Juliet, Naked A Novel. Let me know if you have a question you'd like to ask him, and I might be able to include it!
Feel free to keep Tweeting, even if you miss the 24-hour window today! The idea is to get the message through eventually!
A reminder for all you Twiitter folks to send an invite tweet to Terry Pratchett tomorrow, Monday, June 29!http://twitter.com/terryandrob
Post here to tell us if you tweeted!
Hi everyone - Let's try something organized! And Sir Terry Pratchett is our first target.
If you have a Twitter account, send a Tweet to Sir Terry this coming Monday, June 29, any time during the day.
Here's his Twitter: http://twitter.com/terryandrob
And here's how:
@terryandrob + your personal message
Also, I created a shortened URL for Terry's author page on Goodreads, and I suggest you include this link at the end of your tweet:
http://bit.ly/kIyBJ
EXAMPLES:
@terryandrob You have thousands of fans on Goodreads. Please join! http://bit.ly/kIyBJ
@terryandrob I love your books! Please join Goodreads so I can follow your book news. http://bit.ly/kIyBJ
@terryandrob Please join the Goodreads Author Program. Neil Gaiman did! http://bit.ly/kIyBJ
If an author joined because of your invite or because of a campaign you started, share the good news here!
Tell us who you have invited!
Do you think it would be more effective to organize email-writing campaigns or letter-writing campaigns? Combination of both? Often authors have a physical address where they receive fan mail, but no publicly available email.
Does Stephenie Meyer has an email address for fans? Or an address where she receives fan mail?
Who are the authors you really want to talk to on Goodreads? Post their names here!
HOW TO INVITE AUTHORS:
Search for the author you want and click on his/her name. If he/she is not already a Goodreads author, at the very bottom of the author page, you'll see this phrase:
"Is this you? Let us know. If not, help out and invite______ to Goodreads."
Click "invite" and you'll be taken to a page with instructions on how to invite an author to join Goodreads. You'll see a special link tailored to that author and a sample invite. Feel free to jazz up the invite with your own explanation of why you love Goodreads and why you are a fan of that author.
Go for it!
Thousands of authors have already joined the Goodreads Author Program. Our (lofty) goal is to get all living authors (with an Internet connection) registered in the program. This means that those authors would be available to interact with readers, blog on Goodreads, share information about their upcoming books, and host online author chats. Let's make this happen!
Some authors are harder to reach than others. Newer authors are usually eager to join. Established authors have joined the site with great success (Neil Gaiman, Paulo Coelho, and Jennifer Weiner). If Stephen King, J.K. Rowling, or Stephenie Meyer each received emails from thousands of Goodreaders, they might sign up!
If you would like to spearhead the effort to convince a certain author to join, please post a new topic in this group. If you know the contact email for a certain author, post it in this group. Do you moderate a fan group for an author? Are you active on a forum for a certain book? If so, tell other fans about this group and explain how to send that great author an invite!
HOW TO INVITE AUTHORS:
Search for the author you want and click on his/her name. If he/she is not already a Goodreads author, at the very bottom of the author page, you'll see this phrase:
"Is this you? Let us know. If not, help out and invite______ to Goodreads."
Click "invite" and you'll be taken to a page with instructions on how to invite an author to join Goodreads. You'll see a special link tailored to that author and a sample invite. Feel free to jazz up the invite with your own explanation of why you love Goodreads and why you are a fan of that author.
Go for it!
Goodreads Author Outreach Project
