How to FIND your story on Goodreads

[Bonnie]

Hi, All -
I posted the opening Chapter to my sci fi novel Home World on Goodreads a few weeks back. I must be doing something seriously wrong because I can't find it even on a name search. Please clue me in how to fix this?

[A.K.]

Tell us how you posted it, what the process you used was. :)

[Bonnie]

Ummm..embarrassing as it is, I couldn't even figure out where or how to find the posting site; Rivka was kind enough to send me a link with the posting place in it & I worked from there. I did see it post, so I do believe it's there. Somewhere. Only when I do a title search I get 37 pages of every other story with the word 'Home' in it - but never Home World.

Oh! Process...just cut & pasted from a Word doc.

What am I missing?

[J.D.]

I went to your profile and found it in your comment history.

http://www.goodreads.com/story/show/3...

[Bonnie]

Is that the way folks on Goodreads normally find new stories? Seems really weird that a title search won't bring the story up.

Forgive my ignorance, but as you can tell, i'm totally new to this site.

[A.K.]

If you want it to show up in a search, you have to register as an author (http://www.goodreads.com/author/program) and create a book. You need an ISBN for that. Then you can upload the eBook or a sample.

If you're looking for just somewhere to post tidbits of a story that's not actually published, you might look at a website like WattPad. :)

[Bonnie]

Ah, HAH! Thought I'd done that, but will go back & double check; I'll bet I missed adding the ISBN number.

Cannot BEGIN to thank you enough for the guidance!

[A.K.]

:)