An Author's Guide to Goodreads

An Author's Guide to Goodreads: How to Network with Millions of Readers by Barb Drozdowich

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Based on the premise we, as authors, need to find our audience, and Goodreads is a free platform with over 50 million subscribers worldwide, it’s a potential goldmine for writers to connect with readers – but of course, it’s not without hard work and commitment. Drozdowich, in this second book on Goodreads.com, focuses on the need to network. Actually, this book comes as a responses to her first book- The Ultimate Goodreads Guide for Authors - and the fact the visual (screenshot) approach didn’t work across all reading devices, and that in the intervening years Goodreads has changed.
Drozdowich has dropped the embedded graphic approach and instead included links to screencasts – a free series of mini-courses which contain the visual elements supporting her narrative. A great feature of eBooks.
The written content provides a succinct yet worthwhile introduction to each feature of the Goodreads platform, and is ideal for both novice and seasoned users. Well researched and written, it’s a useful time-saver for us hard pushed writers…
In my opinion, Barb could include some hacks or how-to-get-the-best-out-of-Goodreads pointers, but hopefully, they may be forthcoming.




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