I am no blogging expert. I am learning as I’m going. Some things I fuck up, somethings I pick up. Most things I just wing it. Either way here 1 thing I’ve learnt as a new book blogger part 7;
This site is used by pretty much most people in Publishing/Book blogging community. From indie authors to publishing houses, to blog hosters and everything in between.
Anyone can signup to be listed as long as your blog is active, been alive for at least 2 months. Anyone who becomes inactive gets removed pretty regularly from the list.
= More traffic to your blog = More book requests/people contacting you = increase in stats
Now if you are not too bothered with the above, then don’t bother. The amount of people I have been contacted via it isn’t that massive a number. But it all helps and helps people to find you.
Did not know what the requirements were for that list. Thanks for saving me the bit of research time 😊😄😉
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No problem 🙂
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This is really helpful! My blog is one month old and I can’t wait to join the club and find bookish blogger friends!
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Yeah I was in the same boat 😛
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🙂
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I’ve never heard of this before! Thanks for this helpful post 😀
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No problem.
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Oh fab, thank you for this!
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Very interesting. I’d worked with the list as an indie author, trying to solicit reviews for my work. I didn’t know about the requirements to stay on the listing, however. It was also interesting to see the motivation in terms of blog stats–I think when I began looking at book bloggers’ sites, I hadn’t really considered motivations beyond free reading materials. Feel kind of silly for not thinking about that kind of thing before, but I suppose I’m older and wiser now! 🙂
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The higher stats you have the bigger publishing houses are likely to accept any book requests you may have.
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That makes perfect sense! I haven’t really tried to get any ARCs or anything like that before. Not unless it’s from an author I’d like to support, in which case I just ask the author for an e-copy. But if I were after the nice ARC copies, I can see why boosting your stats would be important.
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Well the people I contact are smaller houses, so I always get copies. One of my main goals is to get friendly with more publishing houses. So when I come to publishing my own stuff, I am not an unknown person.
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I see! It’s good to have a long-term plan like that. Getting stuff successfully published isn’t something that just happens. Takes a lot of work, and a lot of that work has to be done ahead of time.
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Exactly.
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