This brief presentation will help you set up and customize your Goodreads author profile, as well as help you navigate your author dashboard.

1. A Guide to Your Author Profile, the Author
Dashboard, and Widgets on Goodreads

2. As soon as your book is listed on Goodreads,
you have an author profile, but to be a “Goodreads Author,”
you need to claim your profile.
• Claiming your profile means that you take control of how your profile
appears. It’s your first step to becoming an active Goodreads Author.
• To claim your author profile, search for one of your books and click
on your name as it appears beneath the title. Scroll to the bottom of the
page and click the link next to “Is this you?”
Can’t find your book on the site?
You can manually add it to get started.

3. Your author profile is your home base on Goodreads
Tip: If it doesn’t say
“Goodreads author
profile” here, you’re
not yet in the program.
Click here to find out
how to join.

4. Make your author profile stand out!
Add your blog
As a Goodreads Author, you can add your blog to your profile. Whenever you post
something new, your fans and followers will see the post on Goodreads. Readers
can also receive an email digest of all new posts by their favorite authors.
Shelve some books
Goodreads is primarily a site for readers. Our members expect to see
bookshelves and reviews on a profile. Create an influences shelf and
add your favorite books or the books that have inspired you as a writer.
Post your events
Post your events and invite your friends. Author Lisa See has gotten
excellent results by messaging friends located in each city she visits on
tour. This kind of focused outreach is exactly what you should be striving
for, as it is far more likely to produce results than a mass mailing.

5. Your Author Dashboard contains many useful links
widgets & buttons
To view your
Author Dashboard,
click here.
your blog edit books & stats

6. Encourage your fans to add your book with widgets
Adding a widget or button to your Web site is easy.
To see all of the widgets or to add one to your site, visit your Author Dashboard.
Add to My Books widget Reviews widget
This widget lets Goodreads Show off your reviews.
members add your book to
their shelves directly from
your Web site.
Books widget
This widget shows
off your books and
their ratings. Goodreads buttons