Today I submitted 'Mary Read - Sailor, Soldier, Pirate' to GOODREADS. Goodreads is a fantastic site, made for readers and writers to rate and share a huge number of books on all possible subjects. You can set up your own profile, citing your favourite genres - mine of course is historical fiction - and they give you recommendations of books you might like to read. You can also rate and, best of all, review your favourite books, so other readers can get a good idea of what they are like.
I am not a computer whiz kid, but once I was accepted as a Goodreads Librarian, submitting my book was really easy, as it is already listed on Amazon. 'Mary Read' appeared immediately on Goodreads, and now it needs rating and reviewing by people who have read and appreciated 'Mary Read'. Good reviews are essential to really blast this marketing campaign into the stratosphere.
Thanks to Russell's marketing on my behalf, over the last two weeks, the Author Marketing Club has promoted 'Mary Read' at the top of its Sunday Select Books promotion page, and this has also increased the number of sales.
Marketing your own book on the internet is a slow and steady process, but who else has the passion and commitment than the author? If it wasn't for the internet, 'Mary Read' would still be sitting in a box in the cupboard.