Lisa's comments
(member since May 01, 2009)
Lisa's comments from the Goodreads Author Outreach Project group.
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Thanks for that information Lori. I'm not surprised that you've already tried. I know some others might ask him too. Maybe numbers will matter. I always make it clear to authors I invite that being an author member at Goodreads does not have to be time consuming.
There have now been at least a dozen instances where I've received no reply at all to my invitations. When I've received a no reply, the most common reason is lack of time, even though I always have let them know that author membership does not have to be too time consuming.
Wow! The authors I know on here seem happy, some participate more than others, of course.
Thus far, of all those authors I've invited I've either heard back a maybe when they're less busy or I haven't heard back at all.
Elizabeth, Did that author say anything else about why such a dislike of Goodreads? Poor reviews here? Are you sure they weren't trying to be amusing/using satire?
I just invited Matt Ball, a not very well known author, but I really hope he joins.
Ah, That makes more sense. Several days only is impressive too.
Yay Rivka! That was fast!
I just invited Ellen Klages for the second time, letting her know I would not pester her again; I didn't hear back from her the first time I invited her.I invited Anne Fadiman.
I invited Nevada Barr.
I invited Jean Hegland.
I just invited Sue Grafton! (Actually, I just wrote a snail mail letter, which I will mail out on Monday. She doesn't have time for email so I'm not hopeful but I wanted to try.)
Elizabeth, I think that's what I did, and it's showing on my tweeted page and was showing up on my feed, but is not showing up in TP's stat page.Help! ;-)
Edit: I'm not really a luddite; I love technology and don't generally have too many problems, although I do have my gaps in what I can do.
Mine definitely didn't work. My tweet (first one I've posted) shows at my profile and home page feed but not at the stats page Otis posted.In my twitter's post message box I posted:
@terryandrob Please join the Goodreads Author Program. Neil Gaiman did! http://bit.ly/kIyBJ
Please tell me what I need to do to do it correctly.
Thanks for an help and sorry for being such a luddite.
I guess that I did it, and it's still not too late in England; he might see it.Edit: Maybe I didn't. My invite isn't showing at the stats, only from my own Twitter page. What did I do wrong?
Sorry; I'm obviously very new to Twitter.
Ok. Thanks Otis. I'll try it again.
Has anybody figured out a way to do this if the Twitter members aren't following each other's tweets? Thank you.
I am confused. I just joined Twitter a week ago and it's almost 6/29 where I am and it's morning in England where Terry Pratchett is, but the only way I see to send someone on Twitter a private message is if you're following each other's Twitter feeds. What am I not understanding about these instructions? I can try @terryandrob Please join the Goodreads Author Program. Neil Gaiman did! http://bit.ly/kIyBJ
and see if it sends.
By the way, Terry Pratchett is following Neil Gaiman on Twitter, and he's also following Jasper Fforde, another author we were considering for this group invite.
I haven't known what thread to post this in, but given Angie's post # 31, I've had some thoughts that when inviting authors it might be helpful to explain that they can be relatively passive members if they choose to do that.
Fiona, Neil Gaiman is an active member too! I read/voted on one of his reviews that was one of the best reviews I've ever read here.
Mara, You can list some children's book authors you'd like to see join Goodreads. Then, if there are authors you'd like to see here, you won't have to do all the inviting; other members will probably pitch in and send some invitations too.
Lisa Lutz! Thank you!!!
Summer, Maybe he joined as a Goodreads member then but not as a Goodreads author? There are authors here who are Goodreads members but who have not enrolled in the Goodreads authors program.
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