by David Kubicek
There is a new free promotional tool for authors called Shepherd. This is how it works:
- You recommend five books similar in theme to your book.
- You write a short, personalized recommendation for each book.
- Above your recommendation is printed a short bio and photo of the author (the photo is optional).
- Also above your recommendations is a short description of the book you are promoting.
- You supply the author photo and cover photo of your book; Shepherd will pull the cover photos of the books you recommend off Amazon.
- Shepherd will link to your book on Amazon and Bookshop.
Here is the email I got from Ben at Shepherd when my page for In Human Form went live on September 26:
- Last month we had 152,000+ visitors! A new record!
- We launched a new recommendation system in August that will help even more readers find your list!
- We will add genre and age pages toward the end of 2022. The new pages will allow readers to browse genres like historical fiction or children’s books. We will also add filters so readers can search for things like:
- Show me all books about World War 2 that are historical fiction.
- Show me all the science-fiction books about cyborgs published in the last two years.
- Show me all the children’s books about robots for kids age 8.
Check out my page: The Best Science Fiction About Outsiders and check out Shepherd to see if it is for you.
Learn more about David Kubicek’s books.