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Using Amazon Search to hit #1!

Suggestion: books for girls
Reason: The girl is the hero of the story and a good role model for other girls.
The Dead Parade by James Roy Daley
Suggestion: scary book
Reason: Spine tingling tale of an ordinary man, who gets caught up in a horrific circle of death and mayhem.
Ferryman by Carole Sutton
Suggestion: Murder Mystery
Suggestion: Crime Fiction
Reason: Solving a mysterious death within a sleepy Cornwall coastal village.
Patulous, The Different Caterpillar by A. Volta
Suggestion: children’s books with Christian values
Reasons: Lovely children’s tale of faith, hope and understanding.
Misfit McCabe by LK Gardner-Griffie
Suggestion: juvenile fiction
Reasons: A book about a young girl’s trials and tribulations, that other YA readers have gone through.
Sons of Avalon: Merlin's Prophecy by Dee Marie
Suggestion: Arthurian Legends
Reasons: The book is the retelling of the traditional Arthurian Legends from Merlin perspective.
The Time Cavern by Todd Fonseca
Suggestions: books for boys
Reason: Amazing adventure of a young inquisitive boy that would appeal to all YA male readers.
Your Roots Are Showing by Elise Chidley
Chick Lit
Reason: Meaningful tale for woman of all ages.
Harbinger of Doom
by Glenn G. Thater
Suggestion: fantasy
Reason: Fantasy adventure
Sanctuary of Darkness by Titus McGuire
Suggestion: vampire books
Reason: Tragic vampire love story
No Sucker Left Behind: Avoiding the Great College Rip-off by Marc Scheer
Suggestion: College guide
Reason: great guide for college students and their parents
Nora's Soul by Margay Justice
Suggestion: Angles and faith
Reason: Main Character struggles with her good and evil angels, as she struggles with her faith.
The Wonderful Demise of Benjamin Arnold Guppy by Gina Collia-Suzuki
Suggestions: dark humor
Reason: Hilarious tale of murder and mayhem.

I also corresponded with Glenn Thater who has played around a bit with this. He mentioned that Amazon is more likely to approve the phrase if the reason doesn't sound too promotional. It will be interesting to compare notes of what does and doesn't get approved...


Vera Jane--so glad your book is taking off.

Suggestion: books for girls
Reason: The girl is the hero of the story and a good role model for other girls.
The Dead Parade by James Roy Dale..."
All that looks terrific Dee. I have written something similar to all of them, but am now worried about the 'promontional' aspect of it that Todd has mentioned. Anything from now on I'll do more simply I think.
BTW Guess whose book came through my letter box today? Though I am going to have to wait awhile before I can get into it, I have just started Bryce Courtenay's Fishing for Stars --- and it is enormous!

I have just completed the beta test and tagged all 15 books. When I checked on the 'Manage' your tags button I found two missing, and several extra ones of my own book. Three of those on Ferryman I put in on an earlier date before we startd this. But I can't understand why two of the others should be missing. Should I re-do them, or wait to see if it comes through later?

You are such an amazing person Carole...can we clone you?
Oh, did I tell you that I started the Ferryman last night. I was fascinated by the dolphin story. Wonderful start to the adventure. I love the interaction between the old man and his wife.
Reading Ferryman and Gina's Grumpy man book at the same time :]

I had the same thing happened. I think it occurs when your go through the all the steps and don't complete the very last "accept."
Just a guess.
I would redo the ones that do not show, as they show up right away...or should anyway...on your manage page.

Right, I have re-done the two missing books and now all 15 are properly in place.
Dee: I'm glad you liked the dolphin scene, one critiquer once told me it softened the scene too much, so I wondered whether I should leave it in.
BTW Beaky was a real character, (the only real one in a work of fiction) In that year, 1977,he came to Falmouth and made friends with the locals. I have some super b&w photos of him swimming with my son who was sixteen at the time. Maybe, if the old photos scanned up okay, I could put that story on my web!



Ok, where do you want to go first?
Are you a member of the Tag Team?
Start off on the following thread's link.
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/6...
Todd is wonderful in getting the lost, found.
Whispers to you...I think it is because he has a time machine :]



Thanks for the help!
All,
If you submit anywhere on the blog, I'll find it (though I'm way behind again - argh!).
Todd

Hi Gina,
How lovely to meet someone else who actually 'knows' about Beaky --- after all it was 30 years ago! In the book Ferryman he is the only real character in the work of fiction, and only appears in the first and last chapter -- you could say a swim in, swim out role! So, I am thinking of writing a piece on him for my webb. If you like I'll let you know when it's up.
Carole

Yes, please do let me know when you write the piece. This is bringing back memories of my childhood :o)
Gina

Dee and Gina,
Short article on Beaky, the dolphin who has a brief part in the opening of Ferryman, is now up.
If you, and anyone else interested, would like to visit my site: http://casutton.tripod.com/
Goto the page titled 'Fin, Fur and Feather Friends'and hopefully you will find it!
Carole

I've added a new "Amazon Search" tab to hit #1 yet another way on Amazon - this time us..."
Thank you,have submitted my book"Ponder Awhile"
Regards
Mohit.K.Misra

Welcome to the tag team.
Going to tag Ponder Awhile right now :)"
Thank you for your kindness.

Thanks for submitting your book! I'll update the blog in tonight if I can.
Todd"
Thanks Todd.



To put Ferryman on that list what would I have to do? Find other books of similar ilk?
My Beta experiment has not yet changed from still pending.
Carole

Thanks for the update on the search experiment! Regarding the "tag other books", you are correct that the idea is to find books in the same genre as your own that when searched upon your book would show up in the "tags" section. take a look at some of the other authors and what they have suggested for their own books and maybe visit the websites of the books they requested to see how it comes up in Amazon.
T

It appears that all of Glenn's suggestions have been approved.
I just found the following note on the Sons of Avalon Merlin's Prophecy Amazon book site.
Help others find this product - tag it for Amazon search Glenn G. Thater suggested this product show on searches for "arthurian legends".
However,I am still waiting for any of mine to be approved.
The most wonky Amazon thing, is that the review I posted for Gina's book (on Feb. 9th) has still not been approved.
I am going to wait one more day and try to resubmit Gina's book review. Hopefully by that time more of the test-teams' suggestions will be approved as well.

Books mentioned in this topic
Ponder Awhile (other topics)Sons of Avalon: Merlin's Prophecy (other topics)
I've added a new "Amazon Search" tab to hit #1 yet another way on Amazon - this time using their search function.
It's a little more complex than tags. I'm looking for a few folks to participate in an experiment of this function.
Check out the blog post and submit your book if interested!
http://tagmybookonamazon.wordpress.co...
Todd A Fonseca, author of The Time Cavern
"[The Time Cavern:] is an intelligent youth literature combination of adventure, fantasy and science" -- Aileen Cho, Associate Editor, McGraw-Hill