Goodreads Authors/Readers discussion

April, Jeffrey, Stefne, I just tagged you. Good luck!
--John

No Greater Sacrifice

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/tags...

My novel "Perfect Score" isn't on Amazon yet - the publisher's holding onto it :-), so no-one can tag me, but I'm going to find out some of you to tag once I go through the whole thread.

My question is: I've been getting some great reviews here on GoodReads. Honestly, there isn't one below 4 stars. But I don't think anyone ever sees them except me. What do you do with your reviews that come on here?

Sue: "Perfect Score" ttp://www.awe-struck.net/books/perfect_scor...

Hello All.

Just about half way through the list, and I'd like to add my own book to it.

Sylvianna: http://www.amazon.com/Sylvianna-ebook...

Any tags would be appreciated.

Done, Keryl

JR, Keryl, Jason, you've been tagged. Good luck to all!
--John
No Greater Sacrifice

And I have tagged everyone.

Will be back in a week or so to see what's new.

Thanks for the tags.

I tagged a few of you so far.

Here is mine to tag:

Draconia: Forging Trust"

Suggested tags:
science fiction
fantasy
dragons
space travel

Hey everyone! My name is Kait and I am a author/marketer, deadly combination (smile). One of my personal goals is to educate authors on how to use Amazon to promote their books. As we all know Amazon is a force you can not ignore. Ironically though I believe goodreads (more so than Amazon) to be one of the best places for sharing information on the subject . I have often found that the Amazon Discussion Boards can be a not so friendly place and unfortunately many authors fall victim to "cyber-bulling". None of that here!

For the last few weeks I was attending the Taipei International Book Fair in Taiwan and let me tell you the desire to distribute foreign books into the U.S (as well as bring American "English" books into their region) is HUGE! It is all very exciting. One thing I noted which I felt everyone should know is that Amazon is the go to site for Foreign Rights buyers! Yup you heard me. Basically foreign publishing companies are realizing the value of Amazon and how it can essentially be used as a search engine when looking for new titles for rights purchasing. Having an amazon presence is more crucial now than ever as the site will only grow in the proceeding month/years in popularity.

That being said I wanted to let you all know I have created a blog to which I will be making 2 new posts a week all relating to Amazon. This blog will cover marketing tips, facts, and general information about Amazon. My aim is to help educate authors on using Amazon as this site should be treated by an author just as you would Facebook or Twitter. Social Media baby! ITS HERE TO STAY! Below is the link to my new blog! Hope you enjoy it and please feel free to leave comments!

How to Use Amazon to Promote Your Published Book
http://amazonauthors.blogspot.com/


Kait

I left a comment on the other discussion board, but I wanted to thank you for the info here, too. When I first placed my book on Amazon, I did not realized how much I could do to promote myself. I'm looking forward to this time around:)

Hi Kait, thanks for the info. I have two books on Amazon and your blog is very helpful. I just followed it.
Christa

Hello everyone!

I sure could use some tags for my novel, The Great Collapse.

Paperback: http://www.amazon.com/Great-Collapse-....

Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/The-Great-Colla...
Tags: Christian Fiction, Futuristic Thriller, Apocalyptic

Just finished doing a lot of tagging (whew!). Please return the favor!

Thanks!

Jeff

Hi Susan.

I sometimes refer back to them when promoting the novel. I look at every positive review as a recommendation to others to buy and read my novel.

Jeff


Susan wrote: "My novel "Perfect Score" isn't on Amazon yet - the publisher's holding onto it :-), so no-one can tag me, but I'm going to find out some of you to tag once I go through the whole thread.

My questi..."

Jeff and FJ, tagged you!
God luck!
--John

Keryl wrote: "Hello All.

Just about half way through the list, and I'd like to add my own book to it.

Sylvianna: http://www.amazon.com/Sylvianna-ebook...

Any tags would be appreciated."

Tagged Keryl Mine is http://www.amazon.com/Bellyache-Delic...

Jeff wrote: "Hello everyone!

I sure could use some tags for my novel, The Great Collapse.

Paperback: http://www.amazon.com/Great-Collapse-......"

I tagged yours. Mine http://www.amazon.com/Bellyache-Delic...

I've starting tagging! Will try to tag some every day :-)

Here are my two short stories on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Mobsters-Recipe...
http://www.amazon.com/Mobsters-Guide-...

Did yours Beth. Love the funny titles.

The Empire
The Empire (Kindle)

Delyse wrote: "Hi,
Everyone please tag my book--my link to my romance ebook Wrapped in a Rainbow seems to be missing. Here it is again:

www.amazon.com/Wrapped-In-A-Rainbow-e..."
They are having problems with your book on amazon-you may want to track it down...couldn't tag it.

Dianne wrote: "Hey all-

If you could tag mine I would appreciate it. I will come back around and tag all of yours when I get home, for some reason my work computer blocks amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/..."

Dianne,

I saw this book before somewhere and I thought this was a great topic. I'm gonna have to recommend it to a friend of mine who is just jumping into Match.com.

Daniel J. Norman

Ya'll been tagged.

Irish Marines of the Pacific

still new to this newfangled tagging thing, and hopefully I'm doing it right, but here's one of mine and will return the favor:)
The Depths of Deception

Hi, I need some tag love. My book's title tends to throw people off so tags are really helpful. Here is the Amazon link:

http://amzn.to/LearnJustEnoughtoGetLaid

The book is a humorous but also practical How-to. It's a "goal oriented" Dummies or Idiots Guide. It features chapters on Guitar, Cooking, Wine etc. The tags I need are:

Humor
Funny
How to
Comedy

Thanks! Happy to return the favor.

Please tag my art and poetry book Renaissance Woman

http://www.amazon.com/Renaissance-Wom...

tags are poetry, art, sunprint, science fiction, fantasy, mythology

Brand spanking new at being published, I would love some help with all of this and am willing to reciprocate.
http://www.amazon.com/Odessa-Seraphym...

Hi all. I'm just going through the tagging requests from the bottom up, but I will get to all of you. I'd love you to tag me too! I'm new and need all the help I can get : ) Thank you.

Oh! And congrats Rebecca!! It's an exciting time and that is one beautiful cover.

http://www.amazon.com/Guardian-Jewel-...

Ian with Depths of Deception. Needed to put your amazon link - here it is for others to tag

http://www.amazon.com/The-Depths-of-D...

Will go add mine now : )

Ian, LaVerne, Rebecca and Erin, I just finished tagging your books. I could use a ilttle tag as well if you have the time.
Thanks,
A Touch of Deceit

Gary wrote: "Ian, LaVerne, Rebecca and Erin, I just finished tagging your books. I could use a ilttle tag as well if you have the time.
Thanks,
A Touch of Deceit"

Done - and thanks for yours! : )

LaVerne wrote: "Gary wrote: "Ian, LaVerne, Rebecca and Erin, I just finished tagging your books. I could use a ilttle tag as well if you have the time.
Thanks,
A Touch of Deceit"

Done - and thanks..."

Gary--Done, Thanks for mine.

Karen wrote: "Hi all! Looking for some tags for my two books, if you wouldn't mind taking the time to aid a fellow author, I'd appreciate it.

http://www.amazon.com/Art-Finding-You......"

Karen -- I did both books.

LaVerne wrote: "Ian with Depths of Deception. Needed to put your amazon link - here it is for others to tag

http://www.amazon.com/The-Depths-of-D......"

Ian -- tagged yours.

LaVerne wrote: "Hi all. I'm just going through the tagging requests from the bottom up, but I will get to all of you. I'd love you to tag me too! I'm new and need all the help I can get : ) Thank you.

Oh! And co..."

LaVerne--done

Erin wrote: "Please tag my art and poetry book Renaissance Woman

http://www.amazon.com/Renaissance-Wom...

tags are p..."

Erin--Done

Tyler wrote: "Hi, I need some tag love. My book's title tends to throw people off so tags are really helpful. Here is the Amazon link:

http://amzn.to/LearnJustEnoughtoGetLaid

The book is a humorous but also pr..."

Tyler--Done

Hi,
I'm new to the group, and new to tagging. If I could get some simple instructions, I'd love to help you all out. Here is my website and Amazon link as well.

Thanks!
Amy

website: http://www.AmyLayneLitzelman.com

http://www.amazon.com/This-Beloved-Ro...

Yes, I'd be willing to Tag your books if I knew how to do it. Does it means just adding your url for the book to my web-site and blog? If so, I'll go ahead and do it. I'd like somepeople to tag my two books, Transformed http://www.amazon.com/Transformed-Ani... and When God Speaks http://www.amazon.com/When-God-Speaks...

Amy, Anita, all you need to do is go to someone's book on Amazon and scroll down to the part where is says tags, then click on the box next to the tag you believe deserves to be tagged. Most authors prefer to have all of them tagged, but that's your decision.
A Touch of Deceit

Gary wrote: "Amy, Anita, all you need to do is go to someone's book on Amazon and scroll down to the part where is says tags, then click on the box next to the tag you believe deserves to be tagged. Most autho..."

Hi Gary, I tagged yours the first 15 if you could do that for me I would appreciate it.
http://www.amazon.com/Bellyache-Delic...

Just tagged Amy's and Karen Sala's books on my web-site, but stil didn't see how to tag on my blog.Amy wrote: "Hi,
I'm new to the group, and new to tagging. If I could get some simple instructions, I'd love to help you all out. Here is my website and Amazon link as well.

Thanks!
Amy

website: http://..."

Gary wrote: "Amy, Anita, all you need to do is go to someone's book on Amazon and scroll down to the part where is says tags, then click on the box next to the tag you believe deserves to be tagged. Most autho..."

Thanks, Gary! I had a feeling it was something like that, but nice to know for sure. I'll back-track here and start tagging some books above. Ireally appreciate you all doing the same with mine.

Thank you!

Hi, I'd deeply appreciate it if you could tag my book. All help is deeply appreciated :)
Thanks!

http://www.amazon.com/Distract-my-hun...

Suggested tags:
Vampire romance
Urban fantasy
Paranormal romance
Young adult

Thank you again!

X. wrote: "Hi, I'd deeply appreciate it if you could tag my book. All help is deeply appreciated :)
Thanks!

http://www.amazon.com/Distract-my-hun...

Suggested tag..."

Did it :)
Amy

X you are tagged. Crystal I had already tagged you so when I went back to do it again it began to untag it, so I reversed it back to a tag,
Anita and Amy, neither of you have tags set up yet on your site. You need to go to your Amazon Author page for your books and add tags. It should be fairly easy to do. There's ussually a "What's this," button which will tell you what to do.
Good luck.
I'll take whatever tags I can get.
A Touch of Deceit

Just put Amy and Karen on my blog too. Here's my links for Transformed http://www.amazon.com/Transformed-Ani...
and When God Speaks http://www.amazon.com/When-God-Speaks...

Everyone,
Please tag The Acorn Stories as Texas or West Texas.
http://www.amazon.com/Acorn-Stories-T...

I'll keep adding more of the tag suggestions from this discussion.

Vincent, this is a great discussion and idea! Thank you! I added some of the suggested tags for your book.

Duane, http://DuaneSimolke.Com

Vincent wrote: "This folder is designed to help support our fellow Goodreads authors. All tips are welcome!

Hi everyone,
Can u please tag my books?

http://www.amazon.com/Forbidden-Secre...

http://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Light-At...

the fist one Forbidden Secret is a paranormal romance and the second one is a book of poetry. Thank you.

Delyse wrote: "Jaleta wrote: "I'd appreciate tags for mine:
http://www.amazon.com/Nexus-Point-Jal...

Suggested tags:
science fiction, young adult, adventure, spac..."

I tagged Nexus Point

I've added tags for msg 105 and up. I'll continue going down the list. No tag options appeared for a few of the books, but I'll try back. Please add Texas or West Texas tags for The Acorn Stories.

http://www.amazon.com/Acorn-Stories-S...

Duane,

you've been tagged :)

And I'm going to ask again for some more tags. Please tag as Paranormal Romance, Romance, Young adult or anything along those lines thank you.

http://www.amazon.com/Forbidden-Secre...

And poetry, self-help, depression for this one. Thanks again everyone.

http://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Light-At...