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A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that I'd joined a NetGalley co-op with 19 other authors. I own my "spot" in the co-op for a year (instead of the normal 6 months if you go direct) and I can swap out my title throughout the year (which I plan to take full advantage of, since I expect to have approx. 6 new releases this year).
I also volunteered to help out with the approval process for the 20 of us in the co-op (so that the author who organized the entire thing wouldn't get swamped), so I have admin privileges and can see statistics in the account.
I've just passed the 2-week mark, so I thought I'd shared what has happened so far in the very short time I've been in the co-op. I don't know if this is average, below average, or above average. I honestly don't know what to expect. But it's interesting at least. (No, I'm not going to share actual titles -- keeping this quasi-anonymous, although I don't care if you know my own stats.)
Of the 15 titles currently being managed (a few spots have been paid for but the author isn't ready to submit yet), the title with the least number of requests was a spicy contemporary romance that has been requested 55 times, but I don't believe it has been actually live on NetGalley for the full two weeks, so this might not even be a relevant statistic. (My book, a YA contemporary, had the second least number of requests, with 80. It was also the only YA in the sample.) The book that has been requested the most is a New Adult, which has been requested 214 times. The second-most requested book was an erotic romance with 190 requests. (The mean number of requests in our sample of 15 is 105.)
As for my own YA, of the 80 requests, 66 of them were approved (with 18 of those reviewers being added to the auto-approve list). 2 have already resulted in Goodreads ratings (one of which also has resulted in blog reviews and Amazon reviews -- my very FIRST Amazon review, mind you!). Several have resulted in Goodreads TBR adds, and a few have resulted in mentions on their blog as "up next in my TBR pile!" with a picture of the cover.
Here is the breakdown of my own approvals. Of the 66 that have been approved:
24 are book bloggers (who also review on Goodreads and most cross-post to retailers as well)
12 are Goodreads reviewers with large networks
11 are educators (mostly high school and middle school teachers)
11 are librarians (about split evenly between school libraries and public libraries)
5 are booksellers
3 are media professionals (magazines, newspapers)
So there you go. Like I said, I don't know how these results compare to others who use NetGalley, but I thought that was pretty good for 2 weeks and VERY little effort on my own part.
Of course, whether those 66 approvals results in reviews remains to be seen (the 27 librarians, teachers, and booksellers probably won't -- they're most likely requesting to see if it's worth ordering and recommending).
But I still have 50 weeks ago, and still have the right to put in any of my other titles, so I definitely think it will shape up to be $295 well spent.
I also volunteered to help out with the approval process for the 20 of us in the co-op (so that the author who organized the entire thing wouldn't get swamped), so I have admin privileges and can see statistics in the account.
I've just passed the 2-week mark, so I thought I'd shared what has happened so far in the very short time I've been in the co-op. I don't know if this is average, below average, or above average. I honestly don't know what to expect. But it's interesting at least. (No, I'm not going to share actual titles -- keeping this quasi-anonymous, although I don't care if you know my own stats.)
Of the 15 titles currently being managed (a few spots have been paid for but the author isn't ready to submit yet), the title with the least number of requests was a spicy contemporary romance that has been requested 55 times, but I don't believe it has been actually live on NetGalley for the full two weeks, so this might not even be a relevant statistic. (My book, a YA contemporary, had the second least number of requests, with 80. It was also the only YA in the sample.) The book that has been requested the most is a New Adult, which has been requested 214 times. The second-most requested book was an erotic romance with 190 requests. (The mean number of requests in our sample of 15 is 105.)
As for my own YA, of the 80 requests, 66 of them were approved (with 18 of those reviewers being added to the auto-approve list). 2 have already resulted in Goodreads ratings (one of which also has resulted in blog reviews and Amazon reviews -- my very FIRST Amazon review, mind you!). Several have resulted in Goodreads TBR adds, and a few have resulted in mentions on their blog as "up next in my TBR pile!" with a picture of the cover.
Here is the breakdown of my own approvals. Of the 66 that have been approved:
24 are book bloggers (who also review on Goodreads and most cross-post to retailers as well)
12 are Goodreads reviewers with large networks
11 are educators (mostly high school and middle school teachers)
11 are librarians (about split evenly between school libraries and public libraries)
5 are booksellers
3 are media professionals (magazines, newspapers)
So there you go. Like I said, I don't know how these results compare to others who use NetGalley, but I thought that was pretty good for 2 weeks and VERY little effort on my own part.
Of course, whether those 66 approvals results in reviews remains to be seen (the 27 librarians, teachers, and booksellers probably won't -- they're most likely requesting to see if it's worth ordering and recommending).
But I still have 50 weeks ago, and still have the right to put in any of my other titles, so I definitely think it will shape up to be $295 well spent.
