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.