Goodreads.com

Goodreads.com is a great place for book readers, book lovers, and authors. I'm trying to find ways to generate interest in my book and Goodreads.com offers a perfect, free way to do that.

You can list your book to giveaway and people can request it over a certain period. At the end of the giveaway period, Goodreads.com sends you who the winners are and you send the books out to them. They are not required to write a review, but that is highly recommended.

I've listed two book giveaway in November and I had 347 requests (limited to US only), but I've listed another two book giveaway in January and two days before the giveaway closes, I have 1014 people requesting my book (this time, I opened it up to US as well as Canada, Britain, France, Germany, Taiwan, and Korea). Woo. Hoo. However, only 71 of these people have marked my book as "to-read." This supposed to mean that they’d eventually buy and read it, even if they don’t win it. I know it's still an uphill battle, but it also meant that 1014 people have read my book summary, probably checked out my profile and decided that this was something they were interested in reading. That's 1014 exposures. I'm so happy.

I know..., this is half full/half empty stuff. I'd rather think of this as half full. Always.