00:04:45 Lori Scott: Hi, I'm on a phone call so I muted y'all right now. I'll unmute soon! 00:04:56 Patricia Tiffany Morris: My photo went missing after the last update!! How can I add that? 00:05:51 Patricia Tiffany Morris: It used to be there. 00:05:55 Patricia Tiffany Morris: Not anymore. 00:09:53 Patricia Tiffany Morris: Even coffee won’t help my face until at least noon! 00:19:53 Regina Walker: Hello everyone!! 00:19:57 Karen Bradford: Hello everyone Im from Scottsboro Alabama 00:20:12 Melissa Stroh: Hi Jo! 00:20:31 Barbara Britton: Hi Martha! I really enjoy Avid Readers. 00:20:57 Melissa Stroh: Hey Patricia! 00:21:11 amandag: Hi all! Good morning! 00:21:16 Cindy Sawyer: Good morning! It's good to see familiar faces! 00:21:22 Cindy Sawyer: Hi, Jean! 00:21:24 me and the boys: Hi!! I'm new here. I'm excited to participate. I'm going to stay muted because I have a whole gaggle of children here. 00:21:44 Regina Walker: me and the boys - SAME!!! 00:21:57 Martha Artyomenko: Thank you, Barbara. I appreciate that. I work hard on it! 00:23:52 Melissa Stroh: Love Olivia Kimbrel! Yes, I may be just a teensy bit bias. ; ) 00:23:53 Lori Scott: Hi all! If anyone wants to connect on IG, I'm at @Lori.Z.Scott 00:28:22 Lori Scott: There is not a handout link on the schedule. There was for the other 10:15 class 00:30:59 Patricia Tiffany Morris: LOL Mr Hallee 00:33:48 Lila Diller: The handout I found and downloaded was only 5 pages long, most only links. 00:34:02 RondaWells: same here 00:34:29 Amanda Wen: Yes, same. 00:34:39 Regina Walker: Same 00:35:16 Melissa Stroh: Say that three times fast. Lol! 00:35:59 Patricia Tiffany Morris: lol 00:37:17 Lori Scott: I am loving these Star Trek images. 00:37:30 Melissa Stroh: Me too! Total Trekkie here. 00:38:34 Gene Rowley: My favorite 1-Star review… “Highly unattractive and superbly stupid main character. How could the author come up with this nonsense?” 00:39:47 Melissa Stroh: Wow! 00:40:26 Gene Rowley: I doubt this reviewer read the book, but had an issue with me personally. It happens. 00:45:17 Melissa Stroh: Amen! 00:46:18 Brenda Flowers: Good reminders! 00:46:24 Susan Pettit: Thank you for sharing the truth! 00:48:15 Carrie Cotten: Yes!! I know a bad review will come eventually so I need to tattoo these reminders on my forehead...ok maybe just write them down on a sticky. 00:48:34 RondaWells: wow that demographic really is gullible and believes everything online! 00:54:06 Martha Artyomenko: Great book! 00:54:15 PeggThomas: Lost sound 00:54:33 Melissa Stroh: It's on my To-read list. 00:56:34 Hallee Bridgeman: Pegg - not sure why. Sound is working on my end! 00:57:10 Cindy Sawyer: Sorry If I missed it, but will we be able to download the slideshow? I'd like to save it in my files for reference. I am missing a few things while taking notes. :) 00:57:18 Melissa Stroh: That's one thing I'm afraid of is Amazon cutting out reviews because of a connection they may find. I have several author friends who lost reviews because Amazon found a connection. 00:57:29 Martha Artyomenko: If sound is not working, you can go out and reload again with the link. 00:58:52 Martha Artyomenko: One thing with Amazon reviews and street teams, is often they like you to post them on the first day it is out. Amazon will start blocking them if they get flagged that there are 30 new reviews suddenly the day it releases, so I always wait at least to where they think it is reasonable to have read the book after it has come out. 01:01:27 Regina Walker: Do you offer them the book free for that kind of review? 01:02:58 Lila Diller: I'm also on the other side of this -- I'm a book blogger and respected Amazon reviewer. 01:03:21 Heather: Would you suggest developing a relationship with the reviewers you find through an amazon search, as well, or is it appropriate to reach out to them without that step? 01:04:28 Carrie Cotten: It's hard to find many book reviewers in my genre (christian fantasy fiction), most of my reviewers have been from other genres who "took a chance" on my book, which I appreciate! But where do you find the genre specific reviewers? 01:04:35 Melissa Stroh: What's the best way to thank reviewers? 01:05:24 Lila Diller: Goodreads has groups just for Christian reviews. 01:05:32 LORI: That's just hysterical!!! 01:05:44 Patricia Tiffany Morris: Lila, That’s good to know. 01:05:57 Susan Pettit: Oh wow!! Amazing . . . 01:06:04 Regina Walker: @Lila Diller - I've been cautioned not too look for reviewers on GR because GR is for readers not authors and I will offend readers. Thoughts? 01:06:17 Martha Artyomenko: There are several FB pages where reviewers are looking for books to review. 01:07:17 Heather: What is an affiliate code? 01:08:30 Lila Diller: @Regina, I disagree. You of course want to engage in most groups as a fellow reader. But this Goodreads group is specifically for Goodreads authors asking for reviews in their Christian genre. 01:08:33 Hallee Bridgeman: An affiliate code is a code put into a link that gives you credit for the person clicking the link. On many places, you get a commission for people clicking that link and buying something. 01:09:51 Regina Walker: @Lila - Okay, thank you very much. 01:10:18 nmusch: Lila, can you direct us to that group with a link or group name? 01:10:45 Susan Pettit: Thank you for that explanation. 01:10:52 Martha Artyomenko: I would agree with Lila. There are several groups for authors to connect with reviewers and it is fine there. If you cold message readers asking for reviews, that could be offensive. 01:11:37 Regina Walker: Thank you Martha. 01:11:48 Carrie Cotten: Can you explain the contest more? 01:12:01 Karynthia Phillips: Handout is there refresh your screen 01:12:52 Lori Scott: Thanks, refreshing the page brought up the handout. 01:14:01 Lila Diller: Here is the link to that Goodreads group that I was talking about for reviews: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/193829-christian-book-reviews. 01:16:49 Regina Walker: Lila - Thank you! 01:16:58 Lila Diller: you're welcome 01:18:34 Lila Diller: There are a few reasons that you can ask the review to be taken down. -- especially if it's a spammer 01:19:30 Amanda McNeiss: On Goodreads readers can also ask questions about your book. I always trust answers from the author more than from other readers. There is a separate section for questions away from reviews, usually above reviews. 01:20:56 Martha Artyomenko: I would recommend not contacting a reviewer to ask why they chose the star value, unless it seems very incongruous to the review, like a one star on a positive review. It can just be uncomfortable often to ask them to explain why. 01:22:02 Patricia Tiffany Morris: Great advice 01:23:04 Melissa Stroh: Love that quote! 01:23:17 Carrie Cotten: Yass! This is so good. Thank you so much. 01:23:27 Regina Walker: Thank you Gregg!! 01:23:36 Yvonne MacKay: Thank you, Gregg! 01:23:40 Regina Walker: This was such a great class! 01:23:43 Gene Rowley: Stop sharin 01:23:55 RondaWells: Charlton Heston’s book was “In the Arena” 01:23:57 Laurel Blount: This was absolutely wonderful!!! Thanks so much!! 01:24:03 Barbara Britton: Thank you, Gregg. This was affirming and informative. 01:24:11 Nancy Grace: “Fail while daring greatly.” 01:24:22 Nancy Grace: thank you, Gregg! 01:24:28 RondaWells: fabulous class, thanks 01:24:30 LORI: Awesome quote! And excellent teaching! I learned so much that is giving me some peace of mind about the process of reviews. Thank you Gregg! 01:24:33 Tracy Crump: This was very helpful, Gregg! 01:24:43 Brenda Flowers: Thank you for the information. Very helpful! 01:24:51 Melissa Stroh: Thank you, Gregg! 01:24:57 Amanda Wen: Thanks so much, Gregg and Hallee!! I've never received a review, but my debut comes out in a few months, so this is super helpful information for dealing with the inevitable bad review! 01:25:08 nmusch: EVERYONE: I've always felt the star system is very subjective. I'd be interested in a Facebook page discussion about everyone else's criteria for how they choose a star rating for a book. 01:25:46 Mary Luce: I think choosing the right number of stars is the main reason I rarely leave reviews. I'm not sure what the criteria should be. 01:26:03 Laurel Blount: This is my very first experience with KCWC--it won't be my last. I am so impressed!! 01:26:22 Regina Walker: Yes - an Author's Assistant will do this. 01:26:30 Lila Diller: a VA, virtual assistant 01:26:46 Martha Artyomenko: Yes, you can hire someone to do that. I work doing that. =) 01:26:52 RondaWells: Isn’t that a publicist? 01:26:57 Regina Walker: Reedsy.com is a great resource 01:27:22 Regina Walker: Bye thank you! 01:27:29 Heather: A lot of great information! Thank you for a very full workshop presented in an interesting way. I can't wait to get into the handouts and start making a plan to implement what you've discussed.