Goodreads Article in Writers Digest

Recently, Writer's Digest asked me to write an article for them on Goodreads. Anyone who knows me, knows how important I think that venue is for writers, and how important it is to "do it well."  The article appears in the February edition of Writer's Digest. I'm not sure it's on the news stands yet, but I know it's "out there" (maybe to those who have subscriptions?) because I've been getting a lot of positive feedback from it.

Some people have asked me if the article is available for free anywhere. I know that my local library carries this (and many other magazines) so you can certainly go see if yours does as well. I don't think it is available online.
I should note that you don't need a subscription as they do sell copies individually.  Whether downloaded or in print the magazine is just $6.99 and besides my article there is some great stuff in this edition on website building and book promotion, so I think it's well worth the price. Here are links for both the print and digital version.

Of course there is only so much that be put in a single article, even one as large and as compact as I tried to make it.  So here are some other resources that might help people out:

• Forbe's Author Brading Article 
• My subreddit that has advice for authors
• An Author's Guide to Goodreads 
• My Goodreads Presentation from the 2014 Writer's Digest Annual Conference

There are also a lot of information that Goodreads puts out to help authors, and here are some of my favorite resources from them:

• Goodreads Author video
• Goodreads How to videos
• Goodreads Presentations on Slideshare
• Goodreads Ask the Author

I hope that you find some of this useful.