GoodReads is all about sharing books, including those that you've written. I have no problem with authors making posts to promote their books, but I would like to set up a few guidelines.

1. If want to promote your book, you must be involved in the community. If you join solely to promote your book and do not enter discussion, you are spamming. As of 9/11/08, if a self-promotion topic is posted and the author has not participated in any discussion, or has posted only the most cursory of comments, her topic will be deleted.

It is simply rude to join just to shill your books and not respect the community's rules by ignoring them OR the community's members by spamming them with book promotion and sockpuppet reviews. This will no longer be tolerated here at Paranormal Romance.

2. All self-promotion topics MUST be posted in the Self-Promotion folder. This seems obvious, but I have had to move several posts from the wrong folders. From today on, all self-promotion topics posted outside of the Self-Promotion folder will be deleted.

3. Please create only one topic for each book you are promoting. In other words, if you've already made a post about one particular book, and you'd like to post a review or the like, post that as a reply to your topic. Don't make a new topic.

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to send me a message. Thanks!

Very resonable and I completely agree...but I just wanted to know, what is your policy with having a signature? If, for eaxample I was to post with a link but not say anything about it and merely respond to whatevers being discussed? Would that be ok?

Personally, I am not a fan of signatures. The format for discussions on Goodreads doesn't lend itself well to signatures, and they end up looking spammy. This has been discussed in the Goodreads Feedback group as well, and I'm in the camp that would prefer that signatures not be used.

The Discriminating Fangirl wrote: "Personally, I am not a fan of signatures. The format for discussions on Goodreads doesn't lend itself well to signatures, and they end up looking spammy. This has been discussed in the Goodreads ..."

Fair enough. I actually took a look at that discussion and agree that since you actively have to post it every time it could get irritating,for both the reader and the poster. Thanks. ;)

Just a friendly reminder from your friendly mod! If you are an author and would like to promote your book/blog/contest/what-have-you, PLEASE read these rules!

You must post all self-promotions in the Self-Promotions folder, and you must participate in the group if you'd like to advertise with us. If you join just to post your promos, I will consider them spam and delete the topics. Likewise if a self-promo topic is posted outside of the Self-Promotions folder.

Thanks for posting the rules. I am completely new here and wanted to advertise my website contest, but I see I didn't comply with your policies. I apologize now that I know. This looks like a great group, and I am very interested in participating in the discussions.

Debbie

The Discriminating Fangirl wrote: "GoodReads is all about sharing books, including those that you've written. I have no problem with authors making posts to promote their books, but I would like to set up a few guidelines.

1. If..."

Thanks, Debbie, for checking out the rules. I really appreciate it, and hope you reposted about your contest. :)

You're welcome, Fangirl. I haven't had a chance to repost, but I will do that now to the promotion folder. Thanks for giving me the go ahead, and I hope you will enter the contest.

Debbie

Fangirl, I just posted a book review to my blog. It is about a topic which is being discussed. Is it appropriate to notify the group about this reviw? If so, where would I post the notification? Thank you. Although I've had to lurk, I've enjoyed the discussions.

Hi, Frances. There's a discussion folder called Member Reviews; you can create your own topic there (i.e. "Frances's Reviews") and post about any reviews to your blog there. :)

Pardon me, for posting a notice about THE GALAXY EXPRESS. It's a wonderful site for discussion of Science Fiction Romance. It's a great honor to be asked to guest blog there, and I was excited and wanted to share my honor, and the honor of the other guest bloggers with everyone here. I thought that the readers of that genre would be interested. If my notice did not comply with the rules, I am sorry to have inconvenienced anyone.

I have gotten over a half dozen identical notices of this, just this morning. You may turn off the auto notification now.

Thank you.

Frances Drake