Goodreads

Traffic

HopSafari earned 8 views yesterday, down from 12 views on Wednesday. This represents almost twice the average daily traffic for http://www.movingavg.com over the past year. With all the interesting content I should get from the Great American Beer Festival, I suspect raising traffic levels shouldn't be too difficult.

There are no changes in book sales today. I don't think sales are recorded until a book ships, so that makes sense. No changes in the affiliate clicks either, which I suspect are updated at least on a daily basis.

Goodreads

I requested to join the author's program on Goodreads this morning. The program is free, which seems like a great price. Most of my friends on Goodreads read novels, so I'm not sure if they will have much impact on my numbers. That will be interesting.

I only became aware of the Goodreads author program because Scott Sigler invited me to favorite him on goodreads. Scott is definitely a role model for me -- I've been following his career since he first started offering his readings of Earth Core online for free. His books and his marketing is great.

Unfortunately, I don't write SF horror fiction, so I probably can't just rip off Scott's techniques wholesale. I probably can't give myself a cool title like "future dark overlord". I probably can't even call my readers Junkies. That seems like a terrible injustice. Don't you agree?