BookGoodies Author Interviews are Now Being Accepted

Published: Sat, 04/22/17

We closed our interview submission form while we did some clean up and while we were getting caught up on a backlog of posts and interviews. We are pleased to announce we are now able to accept interviews again! Come on over and submit yours if you don't already have one on our site - please do check for one BEFORE you submit a new one. Read the rest of this email for information that could pertain to you if you have an interview already on our site.

http://bookgoodies.com/contact-us/author-self-serve-interview/

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Is BookGoodies Deleting Your Posts?
We do regularly check older posts and delete them when the books are no longer for sale at Amazon. We find these through various ways. However we don't just blindly delete batches of the permanent book listings. For free book promotions and bargain book promotions you have a choice of a 30 day post or a permanent post, so those 30 day posts do get removed from our site.  The search engines like sites with "history" so removing old posts just to remove old posts isn't good for the site in general. 

Authors that have supported BookGoodies Network sites via advertising with us are going to see their books start popping up in new places and being advertised in new ways. Also authors that have advertised with us will be the first on the list when we start recording podcasts again in the near future. We like to be able to continue to assist the authors that support us by adding extra value.  We are and always have been a long term advertising site and not a "one and done" type of advertising.

Below is what we sent to the authors that have older interviews on our site, after you read it - if you have an interview old or a little more recent you can follow the steps to replace your interview.  A common question we get is why can't you just go edit your own posts? That is actually technically not possible since authors are not users on our site. Author interviews should be "evergreen" as much as possible - meaning don't include a list of books or other information that requires updating. You can have a link to your author page at Amazon, Smashwords or BN, and to your author website if you have one. That is where you do your updates. You can also come and comment on your author interview to update those that find your page on our site. We won't edit your post with those comments but they will be at the bottom of the post for your readers.  The same applies to our permanent book posts - if you have changes or updates, leave a comment on that post or if there are extensive changes create a new post and tell us in the description to remove the older post.

If you don't have an author interview on our site yet, now is a good time to add one.  

One other thing we do is remove duplicate book posts - again at the the beginning of our site we had a lot of different places you could add your book information or some of your didn't realize your book was already on our site.

Here is the email about the older author interviews so you can have accurate information and in case you do have an older interview and didn't get that email from us (if you keep reading you will find a coupon):

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Hi!

This is an automated message for all those authors that have an author interview that was submitted to BookGoodies.com in 2013 or 2012. We have upgraded our site and our interviews a lot since then and we are requesting that *if you haven't done so already* that you come back and fill out a new author interview for our readers.

*This email is going to all authors that filled out a form initially in 2013 or 2012, if you have already created a *new* interview in 2014 or more recently you do not have to do this unless you want to.

There are a couple of steps we would like you to follow for us:
1. When you create your new interview put at the top of the Author Bio "This is a requested update to an old interview" - doing this will allow us to know to delete your old interview and use the same url so that any links you (or we) have to it won't break.
2. We will not do corrections to old interviews, we will only accept new completely filled out interviews.
3. Keep your interview "evergreen" - don't put a list of your books that would need to be updated in the future. We don't allow updates to interviews.
4. Check your interview submission for typos BEFORE you hit the submit button.  We anticipate a high number of interviews to be submitted and making manual corrections means it will take a LOT longer for your new interview to be posted.
5. Be patient.  We don't post more than 10 or 12 per day.  We will republish them in the order they are received and it may take a few weeks for your updated interview to appear.

You will get an email from us when your new interview is posted.

We will be deleting all interviews posted in 2013 and 2012 over the next couple of months, so please be sure to come and fill out a new one.

Here is the link to the new interview form:
http://bookgoodies.com/contact-us/author-self-serve-interview/

We look forward to your updated interviews!

P.S. For your efforts we also have a special coupon for 30% off any of our BookGoodies Features listed on the link below until the end of May.  Use coupon code INTERVIEWUPDATE and be sure to click the apply button after you put the code in the box.

http://bookgoodies.com/advertising/seasonal-features/

Deborah Carney
BookGoodies.com
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