Goodreads Authors/Readers discussion

I’ve been doing a lot of marketing/promotion lately for my books and have come up with a “must-be-on” list for writers who want to promote their books. These website provide free services that can really get your books noticed. There are many other sites out there but I highly recommend you concentrate your marketing efforts on these. If you check their Alexa rankings you’ll see that they far higher than most free writers sites.

Between finishing my latest novel and marketing and promoting my other books I haven’t tim e to explain what each site is like and how they work. The instructions for signing up are simple and if you take time to fill out your profile information you will get noticed. My books are on all of them and so should yours.

One other thing. If you have a website or blog add it to http://www.pingomatic.com. It is a free service that lets search engines know your site is active.

Also check out my blog: Always Writing http://www.neilostroff.blogspot.com for tips, inspiration, and personal experience on selling ebooks in today’s publishing world.
Did I mention all the sites below are free?

http://www.Linkedin.com

http://www.Thebookmarketingnetwork.com

http://www.Authorsden.com

http://www.Shelfari.com

http://www.Goodreads.com

http://www.scribd.com

http://www.Bookwhirl.com

http://www.Indieauthorsunite.com

http://www.Bookblogs.com

http://www.Booktown.com

http://www.Bookdaily.com

http://www.Published.com


http://www.Bookhitch.com

thanks for the info :)

I will be sure to check these out!

Me too!

The problem I see is that many of these are social sites--I'm thinking probably only help if you are active. But if I try to be active on even 4 or 5 sites, I'll never have any time to write!