Publicity

[close] Read, Vote, and Help Promote! Imagine you are one of the hosts on the TV show, Shark Tank. Instead of vetting new business ideas, you are vetting books ... and you have clout. Self-published authors appear each week, vying to get your help to make their book a success. In a nutshell, this is The Book Club Experiment. * Week 1 - Three authors will present their books (Tues, Wed, Thurs). Prior to their Q&A session, each author provides an excerpt for review on BCRL. To build some enthusiasm around their book, authors can post trivia questions for a giveaway (also on BCRL). Q&A discussions will help us get to know the authors and their books. At the end of Week 1, we vote and declare a winner for the month. * Week 2&3 - Members purchase and read the selected book. At the end of Week 3, we have a follow up book club meeting, hosted again by the author, to discuss the book in greater detail. * Week 4 - If members like the book, we help promote it by doing the following in a coordinated effort: 1) Leave reviews on Amazon and Goodreads, 2) Click 'Like' on Amazon, Goodreads, & Facebook, 3) Click Tags on Amazon, 4) Send Tweets, 5) Post the book's BCRL page to StumbleUpon 6) Post on Facebook Aside from writing your review, the rest should take no more than a minute each. We'll do these over a 2 or 3 day period. Note: Authors assume the risk that members may not like the book and leave negative reviews. Building a Buzz? The most difficult part of an author's job is marketing ... getting the word out. In today's web-toctracy, we all have a vote. As a group of 300, 500, or even 1,000 members, our coordinated votes have the potential to make a real difference. We will track our impact by following the Amazon Best Seller's Rank. Why Do This? To give our discussions meaning. We will be helping to define an industry and ensure that real talent rises to the top.

[close] Authors' Review Exchange is for new and more experienced authors. The purpose is for finding other authors in or near your genre willing to exchange reviews one-for-one. Goodreads.com is driven by reviews and so should we be to improve our writing. We are all extremely busy, but can handle reading one book for review at a time in exchange for another author reviewing our work.

[close] This group is for those reading and reviewing books via my publicity company - Booklover Catlady Publicity. All my valued reviewers are considered VIP Reviewers! If you are not on my VIP Reviewers database but would like to be and are an avid reader, willing to review on both Goodreads and Amazon then please complete this quick form: http://goo.gl/forms/zmQaS98Ici Please note: If you are an author seeking reviews I am happy to talk to you about the services that I offer including my review generation campaigns. Please EMAIL me at booklovercatlady@gmail.com or complete the following form: http://goo.gl/forms/hTYgwpNrTn You can talk about anything to do with being on board the VIP team, discuss books you are reading and reviewing, get to know each other, make connections and whatever goes!I will update on new information in here and let you know what books are new for review as they come in. I will also announce the monthly random prize winner here in the group as well as by email. Feel free to post links to your review under each book heading. Share your blog page too if you like. Authors are welcome if they want to review other books (I have a few authors on board the team already). Welcome aboard and happy reading and reviewing!

[close] This group is specifically for authors. It is intended to keep you up to date on upcoming events, etc. We constantly have shows and events that are taking place. This is where our staff will post them up and if you're interested, then you can query us about any info & questions you may have.