What’s the most recent nonfiction book you’ve read that has impacted you? How or why? It’s been a while since I’ve read a nonfiction book (apart from the Bible, of course). It’s almost the end of May, and I don’t think I’ve read a single nonfiction book this year. Yes, there are a couple on …
I’ve recently finished my advance reader copy of Indigo Isle by T I Lowe. It’s not due to release until 6 June, so my review will post then. But I can give you a few hints … Here’s the book description: Sonny Bates left South Carolina fifteen years ago and never looked back. Now she’s …
What are the benefits for readers of joining an author’s street team? As a reader, the biggest advantage of being on an author’s street team is that you get an advance copy of their book. There are other advantages. Most authors will set up a Facebook group exclusively for members of their street team. The …
A street team (in case you’re wondering) is a team of readers who get early access to an author’s new books in return for agreeing to review the book on sites like Amazon and Goodreads, and/or for sharing about the book on their websites or social media pages. It may be called a street team, …
I’m sure you’ve all heard the old saying: You can’t judge a book by the cover. And I’m equally sure we’ve all judged books by the cover. In fact, savvy authors and publishers go to a lot of effort to design covers that will appeal to their target reader. They know we judge books by …
A lot of authors offer some kind of freebie or incentive to sign up for their email list to receive their newsletter. Do freebies inspire you to join an author’s email list? If so, what kind of freebie do you like best? My least favourite freebie is a download that sounds interesting or insightful but …
When you sign up to a newsletter list, you often receive a few emails in fairly quick succession to introduce you to the author and their writing. Newsletter marketing gurus will often call this the welcome sequence. As a reader, the value of the welcome sequence is correlated to how much I already know about …
What inspires you to continue receiving an author newsletter? That’s not an easy question, so I’m going to turn it around and instead share what is likely to encourage me to unsubscribe from an author newsletter. The first is if I get too many newsletters. For obvious reasons, particularly given the state of my overflowing …
I do 🙂 I subscribe to a fair few author newsletters. I don’t actually know how many. Some are favourite authors. Others are authors I don’t know and haven’t read, but signed up for their newsletters as part of a promotion. And there are a couple I am part of simply because I enjoy their …
While I am actively trying to reduce my email, knowing I will be added to author mailing lists wouldn’t stop me entering multi-author contests. No, because modern privacy laws mean they always have to offer an easily visible Unsubscribe button, and Gmail makes it easy to block any authors silly enough to not offer that …
