Request Withdrawn

[Candice]

I'm withdrawing my original request. I appears I misconstrued the intent of this thread, i.e. for authors to solicit reviews from reviewers and reviewers to let authors know what type of books they were looking to review. Again, to those I've offended, I apologize.

[Jax]

Not sure if it was just me - but I got an error from the link above.

So, if interested, try this one:
The Daemon Whisperer Excerpt

[Sarah]

Yeah, I got an error, too, Jax, thanks for mentioning it so I wouldn't think it was just me :)


Candace, apparently you were blocked by me--either you spammed me or attempted to friend me without answering my challenge question (Why do you want to be friends?) the answer to which is fairly simple: reviews (or really, I would take anything other than blank space but a friend request with no answer is automatically blocked without myeven checking the profile. I get a dozen or more a day like that, 99% of which are authors who want to "invite" me to their "events" which are typically giveaways and sales on a book that I've never heard of, won't be likely to read and have not actually been requested to review.

If you wanted a review, I have a queue and a process for submittals. See the Author Feature page on my Webbiegrrl Writer Blog for more details. The queue is now out to late the May timeframe after adding the books from my 30,000 Hit Giveaway but I'm still accepting books for 2013.

I have to confess, your book's description would turn me off and gives no indication whatsoever of it being a romance; however, several of the reviews I read mentioned it was in fact a romance novel. Specifically, most of the 3-star reviews "found fault" with it for being a romance after setting up to be a gritty paranormal about daemons. I think the problem there lies in your description not forewarning/setting up the expectation of a romance.

-sry
@webbiegrrl

[Candice]

Jax wrote: "Not sure if it was just me - but I got an error from the link above.

So, if interested, try this one:
The Daemon Whisperer Excerpt"

Thank you, Jax, for correcting the link. I'm not sure how it got corrupted in the first place. :/

[Candice]

Candace, apparently you were blocked by me--either you spammed me or attempted to friend me without ..."

Sarah,

When I first joined goodreads a while back it was as a reader, not as an author. When I tried to friend people and got the "challenge question" I interpreted it as a "I only want to be friends with my inner circle, please leave me alone" and then would cancel out of my request. I wouldn't have been looking for reviews from you at that time, because I didn't have a new book for you to review. Make sense? My apologies for being a bad goodreads newbie back then. I didn't realize people would ban me for that behavior, but in retrospect and what I understand of goodreads now, it makes sense. For over the past year the only way I've been connecting with people in goodreads has been via twitter or G+ (i.e. people I have external connections with already).

FYI, I've only ever done one giveaway--it was after my book release. So I don't personally consider myself a spammer. Out of curiosity, do you consider me a spammer for using this built-in goodreads tool once? It's something goodreads appears to encourage, and I don't feel using it once is spamming, but I'd like your thoughts. Also, do you have feelings on if/how it should be used best (or just not at all?).

As I'm not a reviewer, I get 1-3 such requests a day, and I tend to ignore them, or occasionally join them if they are of interest to me, but they aren't burdensome. I can certainly see how you'd block people if they sent out repeated requests.

Btw, the vast majority of the reviews I've garnered have come through my researching book blogs which seem to fit my genre, reading their review policies to if they are accepting new requests, and then pitching my book to them. Occasionally I also get other spontaneous reviews from readers. I ran across this group and erroneously though it might be a similar resource to connect with reviewers. Thanks for correcting me of that assumption.

Thank you for the feedback on my book blurb. I will take your advice and rework it to clarify the intensity of the romance angle in the book. It is cross-genre, not simply romance, but you're correct in that the blurb doesn't portray it well enough.

I will be leaving this group shortly, as clearly it's not intended for authors. But more so reviewers/readers.

Thanks, again, for pointing me in the right direction. My intent has never been to offend.
Candice

[Alana ~ The Book Pimp]

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