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About meNovelist. Essayist. Realist. Idealist.

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Member sinceJul 15, 2011

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Yes, I agree about the reply system, it's something of a pain. Tim may do something about it one of these years...

Part of the problem is that authors join and start advertising their books, and only after someone yells at them do they get pointed to the many useful pages explaining what LT is and what it's for. I posted a topic in Recommend Site Improvements suggesting that all new users get a big link to the page I pointed you to, so that (hopefully) we get fewer authors saying "I had no idea...". Nobody ever reads the Terms of Service - I certainly didn't, when I joined.

Hope I see you around!

posted by jjmcgaffey at 12:09 am (EST) on Nov 3, 2011

Where did you see that I was a 'reviewer'? Do you mean Early Reviewers? That's specifically a setup for publishers to send books out and get reviews. A detailed and complicated program. Most members of Early Reviewers are not book bloggers (I'm not, I don't have a blog), and while we get books through the program we don't "make $$ on our sites" with the reviews.

Perhaps I was a little abrupt - but I was trying to warn you. Sending out private messages advertising your book is strongly frowned upon on LibraryThing. It happens all too often, and each time people get just a little bit more annoyed - and the latest author gets the whole load of annoyance each time.

Did you do the 'Take a Tour'? That explains quite a bit about LibraryThing - what it's for and who it's aimed at. This page is also helpful to authors - http://www.librarything.com/about/authors - unfortunately it's kind of buried, I found it through a chain of links starting with the Tour. Near the bottom is the warning:

Tread Lightly

LibraryThing is a place to connect with readers, not a place to advertise. As we say in our Terms of Service, "Do not use LibraryThing as an advertising medium. Egregious commercial solicitation is forbidden. No matter how great your novel, this does apply to authors."

I hope you'll come to use LT as it's meant to be used - as a place to catalog books (all your books, not just the one you've written), contact other book-lovers, and contribute to the shared knowledge on the site. If you're contributing to the site, you'll make friends here, and many may be interested to buy, read, and review your book. But if your only presence on the site is advertising for your book, you will turn off people who might otherwise have been interested.

posted by jjmcgaffey at 11:56 pm (EST) on Nov 2, 2011

No. You're flirting (hard) with getting banned on LT. If you want to discuss your book and offer it for reviews, you can put it in Member Giveaways or talk about it in the specifically author groups - Hobnob with Authors and Writer's Brag and Rag Bag, basically. If you post stuff like that in other groups, you'll be flagged as spam; if you send out messages like you did to me, you're likely (as I said above) to be banned. LT is for people to talk about books, not for authors to spam people trying to promote their works.

posted by jjmcgaffey at 11:33 pm (EST) on Nov 2, 2011