by Barb Drozdowich on Self Publishing Advice Centre:

Social media expert Barb Drozdowich counts the ways for indie authors to network on Goodreads to help market their self-published books.

Goodreads is often the site that is dismissed as difficult to navigate or full of nasty people.  Let’s talk about these elephants shall we?

• Can Goodreads be difficult to navigate? I think so.  But like learning to write excellent dialogue,  navigating Goodreads can be learned  with a little bit of patience.
• Is Goodreads full of nasty people?  Not really.   There are 50 million account holders on Goodreads.  In a group that large there are bound to be nasty people.  Take your local mall as an example.  Not everybody there is pleasant,  yet you continue to shop there.  You develop a way to cope with the nasty people –  you can do the same on Goodreads.

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The Enormous Potential Reach of Goodreads