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Hi - I'm a lurker but I read all your posts and often find them helpful. I distribute through Ingram Spark so don't have access to my titles on KDP. Ijust received a Kirkus review and have added it to the Ingram description but would love to have it show up on Amazon. Is there a way to make that happen? Thanks, Tamara

Jennifer wrote: "You can't have the Kirkus review shown on Amazon because the review was not written on Amazon's site. "

That's not correct. The Kirkus review cannot be posted to Amazon or Goodreads as it is a PAID review and not a customer review. Only consumer reviews can be posted directly to a retailer site. You can however add the Kirkus review to the editorial review section of the book page on Amazon.

A.W. is correct. Add editorial reviews through your Author Central site.

Thanks, Jennifer and A.W. - I knew it needed to added to editorial but didn't know where to find it. I'll go look on my Author Central. Tamara

Thanks again, all. The Kirkus Review showed up! Hurrah! But while I was in Author Central I realized that my Bio and was out of date - so in all a successful day. T

Jennifer wrote: "Hi, I am a goodreads advertiser...."

You have an author account. Or do you mean you are using Goodreads advertising?

Jennifer wrote: "Hi, I am a goodreads advertiser , do I get paid and what'S being a goodreads advertiser all about. Thanks so much."

Using your account to post ads is not allowed, so no you don’t get paid. You’re likely to get booted for spam

Jennifer wrote: "Hi, I am a goodreads advertiser , do I get paid and what'S being a goodreads advertiser all about. Thanks so much."

You certainly don't get paid advertising your own books. I'm surprised the mods haven't deleted your posts yet.

Jennifer wrote: "I am not advertising my own book, goodreads gave me books to advertise and I needed to know why and how it works but no problem now, I now know the answers to my question. Thanks to you all."

You’re listed as the author, and no, Goodreads doesn’t give people books to advertise on Goodreads. They do that themselves

Jennifer wrote: "...goodreads gave me books to advertise..."

I have never heard of this before. How does one get books from Goodreads in return for advertising them?

A.W. wrote: "Jennifer wrote: "...goodreads gave me books to advertise..."

I have never heard of this before. How does one get books from Goodreads in return for advertising them?"

The way I understood it, Goodreads asked her to advertise some books, and by sheer coincidence, the book she was given to advertise had her name on it.

lethe wrote: "A.W. wrote: "Jennifer wrote: "...goodreads gave me books to advertise..."

I have never heard of this before. How does one get books from Goodreads in return for advertising them?"

The way I under..."

She's not making sense. She claims she's not the author, however she's claimed the author profile, which is a claim she IS the author. She's certainly posing as the author, by having claimed the author profile.

And she's spamming all over the place about this book, which we all know Goodreads did not give her, and Goodreads is not wanting her to "advertise", and what she's doing isn't advertising.

Alexandra wrote: "She's not making sense. She claims she's not the author, however she's claimed the author profile, which is a claim she IS the author. She's certainly posing as the author, by having claimed the author profile."

I know. The cover also bears her name. Yet in her (duplicate) posts, she recommends the book as if it's by another author.

The only thing I have heard of besides Goodreads Authors and Librarians are Goodreads Ambassadors, but they are strictly for the Help section.

I think Jennifer is confused about what being a Goodreads Author actually means.

lethe wrote: "I know. The cover also bears her name. Yet in her (duplicate) posts, she recommends the book as if it's by another author."

I know! LOL I figured she was just one of the many authors who do stuff like that and don't realize we can tell the post is from the author. ;)

I think Jennifer is confused about many things. She sure gets the purpose of "ask a question about this book" function very, very wrong. She seems to think it's for authors to quiz readers.

Alexandra wrote: "...she's spamming all over the place about this book, which we all know Goodreads did not give her..."

Thank you. From what the op was saying it sounded like some weird program where Goodreads gave people books to advertise - which we know they don't do. Trad publishers do give out ARCs to bloggers so they can talk about them, but that obviously isn't the case here. It's a new author who thinks spamming is "advertising" and that she should then be paid by Goodreads for spamming her book? *head desk*

Jennifer wrote: "DON'T TALK ABOUT ME THAT WAY, PLEASE."

I'm sorry, Jennifer, but you really brought it upon yourself.

You did not bother to read either the Goodreads Author Guidelines or this group's rules before posting here, but immediately started two threads promoting your book while acting as if it was not your own book you heartily recommended.

"4.00 average customer reviews": you failed to mention that one of those was your own 5-star review (i.e. *not* a customer review), and that the other one was only 3 stars.

You comment on your own review "Great book!", again giving the impression you are talking about somebody else's book, not your own.

I also find it strange that you would sign up to become a "Goodreads advertiser" without knowing what that entails. I suppose the title "Goodreads Author" confused you.

Jennifer wrote: "DON'T TALK ABOUT ME THAT WAY, PLEASE."

Don’t spam your book from your author account then claim you’re not the author then.

Jennifer wrote: "...search "best authour group for infos click it then join the group."

Are you soliciting for people to join some sort of spam group? Although I'm not even sure what a "group for infos" even is? Or an "authour"...

A.W. wrote: "Are you soliciting for people to join some sort of spam group? Although I'm not even sure what a "group for infos" even is? Or an "authour"... "

No clue why she thinks anyone would hunt around to find these groups, much less be interested in joining them.

Obviously she's not very fluent in English, which doesn't bode well for her book.

Jennifer wrote: "I advise you go to Family life/fiction book club to get your book advertised for free!"

You're not fooling anyone Jennifer Ajibola.

I see you still haven't familiarized yourself with how this group works.

Can a user be flagged for creating spam groups? "Jennifer" is creating duplicates of popular GR groups with herself as moderator and it looks like an attempt to deceive other members and (most likely?) to spam her book :(

A.W. wrote: "Can a user be flagged for creating spam groups? "Jennifer" is creating duplicates of popular GR groups with herself as moderator and it looks like an attempt to deceive other members and (most like..."

Groups don't have a Flag option, but they can certainly be reported to GR.

Jennifer wrote: "Try it out and see if I am fooling anyone"

We can already see that so far you've fooled no one ;)

Jennifer wrote: "Hear yourself, I don't fool people except if you do, Alexandra."

You really need to work on your English. That doesn't actually make sense.

Jennifer wrote: "I am giving you an oppurtunity to get your book advertised for free but you don't want to listen. So let it be."

You're spamming GR with your crap, keep it up and you won't be along much longer.

No one with an ounce of sense would want you "advertising" their books, after seeing how stupidly you try to promote yours.

Jennifer wrote: "...see if I am fooling anyone"

I would hope you're not fooling anyone. You are, however, being deceptive.

You claimed you book had a 4-star average but attempted to fool people by omitting it only has 2 stars, one of which is a 5 star you put on it.

You have created multiple groups mimicking popular GR groups (like the Moderators one!) in an attempt to fool people into joining your groups thinking they are the official GR ones.

You are selling reviews, a violation of GR and Amazon TOS and I sincerely hope you don't "fool" anyone into paying you for reviews as they could get their accounts banned.

A.W. wrote: "You claimed you book had a 4-star average but attempted to fool people by omitting it only has 2 stars, one of which is a 5 star you put on it."

If it weren't for her own rating on her own book it'd have a 2 star average. So no, it doesn't have a 4 star average from "customers" as she claims.

The "quizzes" is just her misusing the Question function. Posting stupid questions regarding her own book to which presumably she already knows the answer - which is not what that function is for. No one is interested in an author quizzing them about their book.

If she keeps it up GR will certainly kick her as a spammer.

A.W. wrote: "Can a user be flagged for creating spam groups? "Jennifer" is creating duplicates of popular GR groups with herself as moderator and it looks like an attempt to deceive other members and (most like..."

Wow. That is a new low.

Alexandra wrote: "Jennifer wrote: "Try it out and see if I am fooling anyone"

We can already see that so far you've fooled no one ;)"

Hahaha!

I am wondering though, where are the mods in this group?

@A.W., @Alexandra

Groups do have a flag option. You will find the link on the group home page, underneath the description.

lethe wrote: "@A.W., @Alexandra

Groups do have a flag option. You will find the link on the group home page, underneath the description."

Thanks!

lethe wrote: "I am wondering though, where are the mods in this group?"

Clearly not around much ;)

lethe wrote: "Groups do have a flag option. You will find the link on the group home page, underneath the description."

Awesome. Thank you :)

Well, Jennifer has gone, and so have her groups :)

lethe wrote: "Well, Jennifer has gone, and so have her groups :)"

Good riddance!