Important Author Survey - More Information
Published: Fri, 04/10/15
and wanted to respond for those of you that may not have
emailed me but think the survey looks daunting. There are
8 questions that are required that have to have
answers typed in, the rest of the required questions are
selectable and should be things authors know off the
top of their heads. If they don't then they need to be
thinking about them.
BookGoodies is about community and sharing, our
Facebook Group has a LOT of information about promotions
that work and don't work. Since there are a LOT more
authors here than are in the group plus I wanted to
get information from more than the authors that visit
us regularly, I built this survey with very specific
goals. I could do 4 separate ones, but that isn't
going to accomplish what I want.
Authors need more information about certain things
and if I don't know the level of expertise you already
have I can't help. I read a lot of sites and social
media that tells me that the issues I brought up in
the survey are issues authors need to address.
I'm actually a little disturbed by the lack of thought
many authors put into what happens after they finish
writing a book. If you are serious author then the
questions in the survey are ones you should have answers
to. Some are "fun" questions and some are very
serious. The "fun" questions are first and should
be easy to answer or you can just put "I don't have
anything for this."
I hope more of you will go back and take a second
look rather than blow it off as "too long" or "too
complicated" and consider how filling this out will
help you and your fellow authors in the long run.
http://bookgoodies.com/author-survey/
I hope this helps you understand why I am doing this
instead of giving authors a bunch of short "fluffy"
surveys that don't really mean much.
The results will be shared with the BookGoodies
community. You can see some of the results now
by clicking the link at the bottom of the survey.
Sincerely,
Deborah Carney