Quick, but simple: I have a few questions about Goodreads, and I know a number of you are way more into it than I am, so maybe one or more of you could help out. One of these is sort of a LMGTFY sort of question, but the other isn’t, so I may as well just ask both of them.
- I am pretty sure the answer to this is “yes,” and this is the LMGTFY question: if I’ve assigned an unreleased novel an ISBN, let’s say the novel is called Skylights, and I wrote it, I can put it up on Goodreads even though it’s unreleased, right? And this is a good thing, because it lets people set it as to-read and they will let me do giveaways and such. Right? I’m about to literally start rereading my own book so I’d like to be able to mention that there.
- The slightly more complicated one: what’s the culture like over there? If you’re an author on Goodreads (particularly if you’re an author) do you find yourself getting lots of friend requests? You can find my Goodreads page through two places on this site, but I monitor my clicks and don’t see them that often– which means that the fact that I tend to add two or three followers/friends on GR every day seems a trifle weird to me. Are these people coming over from the blog? (Have you followed me through the blog?) Or are they more likely to be Goodreadsians who are friend requesting authors in genres they find interesting?
Note that I am not complaining, and that I’m approving all of these friend requests– I’m just curious if my account is more popular than it ought to be given how infrequently I use it, or if being an author on GR is always a ticket to a fairly high number of friend requests.
(I’m here, by the way, and I really do say yes to everybody, so feel free to hit me up.)
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I used to be on Goodreads (as a reader, not as an author though) and I eventually deleted my account. It felt more time consuming than anything else to me. I never really understood the “culture” either, contrary to some other platforms. My best interactions with (fellow) authors has been on WordPress and Twitter (and sometimes through emails) over the past year or two.
Dunno if that helps, but good luck 🙂
That helped me, Jenny, because I write yong adult historical fictions.
And I write, but I can’t type, especially with my left hand, while feeding my aggressively loving Maine Coon cat with my right hand – he only eats baby food.
If you’re listed as a Goodreads author, then any time anyone looks at any of your books, they see that you have a Goodreads account and click over. I do that a lot and friend some authors just so they’ll show up in my news feed, whether the author is actually posting anything or not.
Email ahoy.