Use Goodreads Author Program As A Book Marketing Tool

What Is the Goodreads Author Program? The Goodreads

Author Program is a completely dree feature designed to help authors reach their target audience – passionate readers.

This is the perfect place for new and established authors to promote their books.

What Can You Do As A Goodreads Author? Take Control of

Your Profile Promote Your

Books

Take Control Of Your Profile Here are some of the

features you can use on your profile: Add a picture and bio Share your list of favorite

books and recent reads Write a blog and

Publicize upcoming events,

Share book excerpts and other writing

Write a quiz about your book or related topic

Post videos Add the Goodreads

Author widget to your personal website or blog

Promote Your Books Get the word out! Here are some of the

promotional tools available on Goodreads: Sign up to

advertise your books to the Goodreads Community

List a book giveaway to generate pre-launch buzz

Lead a Q&A discussion group for readers

Participate in discussions on your profile, in groups, and in the discussion forums for your books

How Do I Join? Sign in or

sign up for an account Search for yourself and click

on your published author name

Clicking on your name takes you to your basic author profile page. This page is part of our

database of books and authors and is separate from your member profile page (which lists your bookshelves and friends)

Scroll down to the bottom of the page. Click “is this you?” to send a request to join the Author Program.

Who Can Join? The Author Program is

designed for people with published books, or who are in the process of publishing a book.

It’s best if your work is on a bestseller’s website, such as Amazon.com or BN.com, but Goodreads will accept any author who has published a book.

If your book is self-published and is not yet in the Goodreads database, you may manually add it.

Additional Book Publicity Services Goodreads is a great

place to go to market yourself as an author and your books.

However, you will benefit more as an author through add book publicity services.

Consider hiring a book publicity firm like Smith Publicity to teach you how to market your book for added exposure.