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Author Tips to Promote Your Books on I Turn Pages

I Turn Pages is built to give authors real visibility with readers who are actively looking for their next book. Here is how to make the most of what our reader social network offers, from free community activities through to paid promotional features.

Start With Your Profile

Before you promote anything, make sure your author profile is complete. A full profile earns you points towards your author status level and gives readers a reason to follow you before your book even comes up.

Important Note: You will not be showcased on our "Find Authors" hub until your profile is complete with an image or avatar. This is where readers can search for your genre and find YOU, follow you and see your books, posts, groups and your reader community that you build on I Turn Pages!

Build Visibility Through Community Activity

Everyday activities build your presence and your points at the same time.

Author Spotlight

Our Author Spotlight is a permanent hub featuring an editorial profile piece about you and your book. Unlike a social media post, it does not disappear into a feed. It stays live and discoverable, so readers finding your Author Spotlight months from now will find you too.

  • Written profile format that readers trust more than an advertisement
  • Tells your story, your book, your influences, and your writing life
  • Stays permanently indexed on the site
  • Apply for an Author Spotlight - slots are limited, so get yours now to avoid disappointment.

Five-Page Friday

Five-Page Friday lets readers sample the first five pages of your book, with a direct link through to buy your book. It's a fabulous way to let your writing speak for itself.

The Story Bible is an add-on available with Author Spotlight and Five-Page Friday. It gives readers the world's rules, character traits, and key lore behind your story, kept short and designed to tease rather than explain everything. 

Plus, you have the option to add an event to give away books and collect subscribers!

Genre Ambassadors

These are recognition programmes for authors who are active and visible within their genre community on I Turn Pages.

  • Genre Ambassadors are featured authors per genre on a dedicated hub where readers can find you to engage within their genre
  • Apply to be a Genre Ambassador to build a bigger genre community in the genres you write

Author Events

Author book events give you a live or self-recorded format to talk directly to readers, often paired with a signed or digital copy giveaway to drive sign-ups. Events with higher membership tiers are given priority placement, so your event is easier for readers to find.

Find out how to promote your book through book events.

Check out these examples of how you can build your reader subscribers.

And there are lots more Author Giveaway Ideas to explore for your own books.

Groups

Create a Group to Build your author community around your books and genre. Readers join, follow, and come back.

Just look at all the activities Paula is posting to promote her books. You can too! Follow her examples on the links above.

Reviews and Word of Mouth

Reader reviews on I Turn Pages are structured, covering pace, mood, and various ways readers can share your book. 

Encouraging your readers to leave a full review helps your book surface in more places across the site, since detailed reviews carry more weight in search and discovery.

Advanced Review System to Ensure Books Are Discovered

We have taken time to build an advanced review system built for books. We studied what power reviewers actually want — and what Goodreads and others are not delivering.

We’ve turned reviews into a powerful discovery engine. How?

Our review system makes it easier for readers to articulate why they loved your book, which adds more discovery fields to help your book titles surface to new readers.

Our review system makes it easier for readers to articulate why they loved your book, adding unique meta-data fields that actively surface your titles to entirely new organic audiences.

Here's how you benefit from this:

  • We encourage readers to find you and your genre on our all author's page and follow you. Ensure you have an image or avatar and a profile bio; otherwise, you will not show on this page for readers to find you.
  • Check the reviewers on our homepage's top reviewers section. You can connect directly with them to ask them to review your book.
  • Build your tribe on I Turn Pages. 

Readers and fellow writers are here waiting.

A quick to get your books more discoverable on I Turn Pages: Invite your existing readers to review your books on I Turn Pages and start building your rankings now.

Track Your Status

Every rating, post, review, and profile action you take builds your engagement, which never resets, and your monthly author leaderboard points, which do. 

As your engagement points grow, you move up through author status levels, giving you more visibility and standing within the community.

Getting Started

A good starting combination for a new or relaunching book is Author Spotlight paired with Five-Page Friday, with a Book Bible add-on if your world or characters are a strong selling point. 

From there, our Book Promotion Packages are built to be 'automated book promotion' on steroids - you add the content, our community site does the rest of your long-term, continual book promotion.