Goodreads, Facebook and Twitter: Share What You Read, Rate and Add

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Grin and share it. Goodreads users have the ability to share what they’re reading, rating, and adding on Goodreads with Facebook friends (and Twitter peeps, too) through an app. Interested in partaking? To arrange all this automated sharing, go to the Goodreads website, and click “edit profile” on the drop-down menu beneath your user image [...]

De-constructing Criticism is a Required Skill for Writers

How do you know what criticism to take versus what criticism to politely decline? I’m not talking reviews; I’m talking before-you-publish comments from early readers. You’ve got a manuscript finished. Before you publish it, you have someone – hopefully a few someones – read it and let you know what they think. You’re looking for [...]

Goodreads Members’ E-reading Devices: E-readers or Tablets?

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Before Amazon announced its plans to purchase Goodreads, I noticed the results of a survey on the Goodreads blog that examined what devices members use to read ebooks. Naturally, Goodreads members don’t just read ebooks on Kindles and other devices that are specifically e-readers. The blog points to a New York Times article (http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/20/e-book-reader-tablets-cannibalized/) that [...]

Authors: What Do You Do When a Reader Asks You For a Free Copy of Your Book?

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I’ve blogged before about giving away books on Goodreads (http://thewritersguidetoepublishing.com/goodreads-giveaways-part-one). But I recently heard a couple different authors mention that they’ve been contacted by Goodreads members following a giveaway. The readers, even though they didn’t win the giveaway, are asking for a free book copy. About Goodreads giveaways: The site allows authors to give away [...]

Happy Valentine’s Day, WG2E-Land! Let’s Share Our Love of Indie Epublishing!!!

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Since today is Valentine’s Day, I thought we could share what we love about being indie authors! I’ll get us started. I love: Control over my writing. There’s nothing like being able to take as much time with a story as it needs, to be able to select exactly the right cover and pricing, to [...]