Online reviews are EVERYTHING for the sale of indie books. I focused almost exclusively on reviews as a marketing strategy when my first novel, Saving Grace, was published. Three and a half years later, it has more reviews (2300+ with 4.3-stars) on Amazon than Janet Evanovich’s One for the Money (the book it’s most often […]
Tag: goodreads
Amazon Giveaways: An Update
A few weeks ago, I blogged on giveaways on Amazon and Goodreads. For us, Goodreads was an ongoing strategy, but Amazon was completely new. Pamela Fagan Hutchins tried it for her mystery Heaven to Betsy. The promo ran for one week, which was the set period and not something that could be changed. That matches the time […]
Five Tips For Indie Authors on Goodreads
If you’re an indie author and you’re not on Goodreads, it’s time to take the plunge. With a rapidly-growing community of readers and authors numbering over 10 million — thanks to integration with Facebook timeline — and a data partnership with industry giant Ingram, Goodreads is the leading social media site for bookophiles. We congregate […]
You can help an indie author.
Do you love indie authors (or an indie author)? SkipJack loves indie authors. In fact, we love them so much, we publish them. Which begs the question of whether they’re really indie anymore once we do that, so we’ll answer it. Yes, yes they are. We’re an indie author collaborative, and our authors have our […]