Uncaged Book Reviews discussion

Hi all! If you've been featured in Uncaged, has it helped you at all? I'd love to know if it has.

January issue will be releasing in a couple days!

Cyrene wrote: "Hi all! If you've been featured in Uncaged, has it helped you at all? I'd love to know if it has.

January issue will be releasing in a couple days!"

I can't really tell yet. I've yet to receive my royalty statement from my publisher.

I do wonder about how readers find new books. I polled my own readers via my newsletter, and most seem to pick up books that are recommended to them by friends, family, and other trusted sources. I suppose magazines and blogs can be trusted sources too? But when I think about my own reading tendencies--I have authors that I already love and read, and then I might browse a bookstore or library to find something interesting . . . But though I do sometimes see things on blogs and in book magazines, I can't think of a time I ever went and bought a book after reading a feature or review. Then again, marketers say it takes 7-10 separate mentions of something for a person to decide to buy it.

I do add books on Goodreads pretty regularly, if they look interesting. And again, this is based on what my Goodreads friends are reading--I see it in my feed and think "that looks cool" and add it and then go buy one from my TBR list when I'm looking for something to read.

The bottom line question is: How do readers find books? And how can you get your book to those places? I *hope* they find new books in Uncaged, cuz that's one place my books are!

I'm hoping it's helping. Uncaged is hitting over 30K views in the first month an issue is released, I'm hoping that's adding up to some kind of help for authors. My goal with Uncaged was to get the work out to the readers, and hope to see it work a bit for them in a very competitive market. How does any author become the next Nora Roberts or James Patterson without anyone seeing the work?

Personally, I've found books all types of ways, through browsing, word of mouth, and even my friend's blogs and some Facebook groups where books are mentioned. Probably not a surprise I belong to book groups, is it? :)

I of course, also have found many many new authors asking me to review - but my circumstances aren't the "normal." :)