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Free and Easy Holiday Gift Ideas for the Author in Your Life
5 min readDec 5, 2023
Update 11/20/2024: I have left Medium because their new royalty model made the membership fee no longer worth it. I have moved to Substack. You can find me in the following places:
#1. Reviews
Reviews help authors in myriad ways, but here are my top three reasons to leave a review:
- Reviews provide credibility to their work. Other people are likely to make a purchase if they see that others have enjoyed it.
- Reviews boost auto-populated searches. When my book Survived By first launched, it wouldn’t auto-populate in Goodreads or Amazon search bars. (What does auto-populate mean? It means when someone starts typing in “S-U-R-V-I-V-E-D” that my title would then pop up. Only after typing in “Survived By Anne Marie Wells” would my book show up. But now after several reviews and reaching the Top Ten for many of Amazon’s poetry lists, it auto-populates.
- Reviews become…
