I’ve just held a promotion for one of my books on Amazon.
For five days Guilty? the first book in the Dean and Steph detective series,
was completely free. I promoted it daily on social media and the response was
good with more than 150 copies being downloaded. This is pleasing, it
introduces people to my work and hopefully some of them will like it enough to
want to purchase other books in the series.
What is less pleasing though is the readers response to the
last line of the ad telling them book was being given away. This was simply a
plea for those who read it to go to Amazon and leave a short review. It seems
people either missed that line or didn’t feel the need to do it because so far
there have been no new reviews.
Reviews are important to authors. They are what attract the
readers to a book. They also tell the writer what they have done right, where
they’ve gone wrong and what the public think of their work. Guilty? already has
six, five star, reviews on the US Amazon site and five on the UK site (why
Amazon won’t show all reviews on all sites I don’t know). I’m very grateful
for these and for those for my other books too.
Personally I always leave reviews for every book I read. They are
never very long and I don’t go into great detail but I do say whether I liked
the book or not and I always sat why I've given it the marking I have. Giving a review doesn’t take long,
two minutes at the most, and it not only gives the author important feedback but
provides other potential readers with someone else’s thoughts on the book.
That being said I sincerely hope those who downloaded my
book enjoyed it and, if any of you who read this have read my work and have a
couple of minutes to spare a review would be much appreciated.
