Google indexes good reads. So if you ever have your book self published or traditionally published, it will also extract the rating to the book page.
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That pretty much sums up the kind of stuff I tend to get, but fortunately not on goodreads. I haven’t had a review there since the dark ages. More or less.
Most of my reviews are like “here for the free coins” and “trash” and I even got many at one stage where I had ended playing space invaders with emojis because all people were using was emotes.
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noo, put it on Goodreads, library staff uses that to find books for their collections.
also Kirkus Reviews.
why isn’t that venn diagram a circle
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Ahh, I didn’t know that at all. Thanks for letting me know.
D: A long time.
Wow. Just emojis? 
That would also annoy me too, if there were too many emojis in a review.
Oh, I didn’t know that. Imagine Churroverse books in a library lol.
Because I made it 
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Yiii, Goodreads and Amazon reviews are mostly used for general checks. Like, is this book popular enough to justify purchasing; is there anything glaringly wrong with it, ect. And sites like Kirkus Reviews and Library School Journal, which cater more towards vendors and libraries, are used to gauge the “value” of a book and whether it suits a particular library’s collection development policies. That’s why you see reviews from Kirkus and LSJ included on a lot of YA book covers/front pages, they’re like “NY Times Best Seller!!!” stickers but for library staff lol
If you self-publish you have to donate them to get them into a library collection and it has to be to each individual library you want it to be in. Also there’s no guarantee it will be added to the collection, all libraries have their own collection development/maintenance plan that details what books they can accept or whether they even accept donations at all.
Unless you get really popular like Nora Sakavic or Arthur Slade.
you made the venn diagram of Stories You Like and Stories You Are Going To Write… not a circle, on purpose?
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goofs off on ww instead of writing
gee i wonder why this chapter is taking so long.
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I never knew that either. Kirkus sounds like something that I would be getting on the good side of, and making sure my book was promoted for.
I will find a way for everyone to read it, and get it popular enough so that the libraries will know they are missing out by not adding the Churroverse to their collections
Yes, I made it squares so that I could fit the writing in neater. 
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yeah! I don’t know how books get added there tbh. It’s not like Goodreads where you can just add your book :s
good luck!
alright, smartass 
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Fair enough, maybe there are guides online.
np
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Thank you! <3
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maybe 
I bet one of my teachers would know, i should ask… hm
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Yes, please thanks.
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Probably where you can’t post yours without a poll attached that is about likeability of the prose in question:
- Very well done
- Cool but needs work
- I don’t like this
- Other
If you know you’re only putting it up there with at least the chance of a generic “this sucks”, you’re going to be a bit more careful about what you bring to the table.
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Yeah, in the end of the day, I just want readers. And no publisher can give me that, only social media. Once I am through with my creator obligations for this year, I think, I will try to do social media yet again.
But, in the end of the day, the only path I see is still ‘write good’
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And if we are honest with ourselves, most our chocies will be #2. I mean, what touches me generally ain’t going to be what gets to anyone else, so it’s often more glaringly obvious to me. People who find commonality more easily aren’t going to notice it as quickly.
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I like polls, they’re quick and easy but they can be abused too.
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Yep. I’ve been screwed over one too many times by traditional and media giants. It gets hurtful after a while.
I’m at the point where I don’t know what is good. I can only write the story my way and hope for the best. I guess that’s all we can really do. 
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Honestly, after my experience so far, I think my goal is either land an agent and get into a big publishing house (ha! I wish), self publish or make it big on Wattpad.
Even then, I’m not entirely happy with publishing anymore. This process with a small house, while probably isn’t the norm, has really put me off. Not even the creative control, because to be fair, for example, if I hadn’t liked the cover, they offered to make a new one. But more of the way they treat authors as if we’re just doing the work for them pushing out books.
Maybe it’s a romantic view, but I thought there would be much more care and love given to the work than I got - I got that treatment off one woman who did my development edit, but they sacked her half way through my editing process.
It’s disheartening - the whole publishing industry needs work.
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I’m going to test one scifi saga with neovel. The interface is basic, but has what is needed, and they have a nifty schedule feature. And a book can be deleted, which is good.
If the book is popular with the masses, it can earn some money. But it has to be popular, as in lots of people talking about it.
I’m just hoping to be read and have some reader engagement. I dislike book silence. Lots of views and no other reader signs of life screws with the mind. I don’t care what anyone says, silent readership is the death of a story.
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I actually got into both but both axed me before I even had the chance to be released.
I got screwed over when one big house was going through some brand and staff changes and the Chief Editor said no thanks. And an agent who had undergone a merger and all new contracts were gently placed into a void when the other company took it over. Like, all the querying I did, and I get that. I’m sure not many people went through my unlucky streak.
I decided to try my own thing.
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