What happens if you get to 3 reviews between the time you sign up and the time the book is to be featured?
Is your book feeling unloved? Join our "Book Discovery Day"
We've been looking for ways to assist authors in getting some visibility for newly-published and overlooked books. These books typically don't have any reviews yet, or few reviews... and thus they don't qualify for many of the promotional opportunities out there.
So, twice a week (on Tuesdays and Fridays at 4pm Pacific), we're going to replace our usual 'Spotlight Post' with a 'Book Discovery Day' post. This post will contain a simple table (see graphic below) with newly-published or overlooked books. The table will be limited to 16 books or fewer.
Starting today, you can submit your book here:
http://kboards.com/book-discovery-promo
The only requirements we'll make for the book submissions are:
(a) no erotica;
(b) a family-friendly cover; and
(c) the book has fewer than ten reviews on Amazon *or* an Amazon ranking of higher than 100,000.
We've set a price for this of $15/book. For those of you who may be interested, I would also offer a couple of tips:
- Having a really good cover matters. Get it professionally done if you can... it truly does make a difference when trying to attract new readers!
- Take a look at your blurb and see if it could use some tightening up. Note that, due to space restrictions in our posted table, only the first 500 characters of the book's description are included.
I would appreciate your feedback on this and how we can make it as effective as possible for authors, and for readers. Thanks!
-Harvey
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So, twice a week (on Tuesdays and Fridays at 4pm Pacific), we're going to replace our usual 'Spotlight Post' with a 'Book Discovery Day' post. This post will contain a simple table (see graphic below) with newly-published or overlooked books. The table will be limited to 16 books or fewer.
Starting today, you can submit your book here:
http://kboards.com/book-discovery-promo
The only requirements we'll make for the book submissions are:
(a) no erotica;
(b) a family-friendly cover; and
(c) the book has fewer than ten reviews on Amazon *or* an Amazon ranking of higher than 100,000.
We've set a price for this of $15/book. For those of you who may be interested, I would also offer a couple of tips:
- Having a really good cover matters. Get it professionally done if you can... it truly does make a difference when trying to attract new readers!
- Take a look at your blurb and see if it could use some tightening up. Note that, due to space restrictions in our posted table, only the first 500 characters of the book's description are included.
I would appreciate your feedback on this and how we can make it as effective as possible for authors, and for readers. Thanks!
-Harvey
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Always coming up with great ideas to help new authors, eh? What's your angle? 
This one seems like an unmet need, for those zero-review books out there! Plus, it's fun to program these things.
Pretty sure it's some sort of general awesomeness thing ... very suspicious, if you ask me!H.S. St.Ours said:Always coming up with great ideas to help new authors, eh? What's your angle?
One of my newest books only has 8 reviews. I'm going to report 5 of them as abuse so I can get down to 3 and book a slot, if that's okay.
Just in case you don't get my humor...I'm kidding, Harvey! Great program, though. I know there are many **gems** out there from KB'ers waiting to be discovered!
Just in case you don't get my humor...I'm kidding, Harvey! Great program, though. I know there are many **gems** out there from KB'ers waiting to be discovered!
KayBratt said:One of my newest books only has 8 reviews. I'm going to report 5 of them as abuse so I can get down to 3 and book a slot, if that's okay.
Just in case you don't get my humor...I'm kidding, Harvey! Great program, though. I know there are many **gems** out there from KB'ers waiting to be discovered!
KayBratt said:One of my newest books only has 8 reviews. I'm going to report 5 of them as abuse so I can get down to 3 and book a slot, if that's okay.
Just in case you don't get my humor...I'm kidding, Harvey! Great program, though. I know there are many **gems** out there from KB'ers waiting to be discovered!
Actually, one thing I'd like some feedback on is whether "3" is a reasonable maximum for the number of book reviews. Should it be a higher number?
From a logistics standpoint, I would think that the number of submissions will give you a feel for that, Harvey. If you are inundated, maybe three is enough.
Some review sites have a minimum number to accept books for review, don't they? Is it three or five? I can see Book Discovery Day being a plus for those authors whose books aren't eligible for those other sites.
Betsy
Some review sites have a minimum number to accept books for review, don't they? Is it three or five? I can see Book Discovery Day being a plus for those authors whose books aren't eligible for those other sites.
Betsy
Harvey, is three the maximum that a book can have, or is two? Your initial post reads "less than three" which would mean two was the maximum.Harvey said:
Actually, one thing I'd like some feedback on is whether "3" is a reasonable maximum for the number of book reviews. Should it be a higher number?
Betsy
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