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i just started and i want people to read my book but i dont really know how

Ask people to do book swaps. 8)

It's a process, Lexi; sometimes frustrating. You're "competing" with thousands of other writers here and "out there".

First, and maybe foremost at this site: Make new friends. Ask them kindly, and with tact, to please read what you've slaved over:) Don't spam, though. One message, maybe a reminder days or weeks later. Be gracious.

Join groups that you might find interesting and beneficial to your beginning career. Serious Writers is great. Young Writers. Many others. Communicate with the members in posts. Be thoughtful. Get your face out there...and your reads will follow:)

Edit, edit, edit. Make your blurbs, your book interiors, your covers, the best they can possibly be. Remember that there are thousands here who are asking for attention, vis a vis their books. Try to stand a bit above the crowd...but never look down on it. We are all in this together.

Best of luck. I'll read. Give me a bit of time, I have a long list, lol.

Forgive me. I failed to mention the group, "The Reading List." !!!! Advertise there!

Thanks Rebecca, if you wish to delete the pics from my posts now that you have seen them I respect that.

I sent the links ahead - so you can remove them now if you'd like :)

Thanks once again, Rebecca. I am willing to leave the matter in your hands & have deleted my posts. :D

I reread what I have written to avoid this problem. I find it helps a lot!

I would hope everybody rereads before posting. But if I change my mind on the wording, content or the post as a whole, I have to delete it, thereby creating those pesky "This comment was deleted" posts.

Hi obsessed.,
Can you give us more details so we can help you? Is there nothing inside a book when you open it to read, or are you unable to click on books at all? Please be as detailed as possible and we will do our best to help you solve this problem.

Thanks,
-The BookRix Team

Cool!

Great, Tanya!

I just created a new book (for friends only) just to see how the new feature works. It certainly isn't as complex as the old, and to my delight the upload from my files showed up exactly as I wrote them in Word! All indentations, all italics. It was a breeze. Good, good job, Team! The one thing I need to investigate in this trial creation now is how to edit the title and the cover. I just pulled a title out of thin air and uploaded a cover from those saved here at Bookrix to see what would happen.

@felixthecat - We're so happy that it worked for you, exactly how we planned it to! To edit your title, you need to click on "Edit Book" and then once you're in edit mode for your book, you will see three big buttons - the middle one is "Edit Book Info" and inside of that you'll find your title, author name, blurb, dedication, age rec., copyright info, etc. Easy-peasy! For your cover the big button on the right is "Edit Cover" and there you should be able to either choose a BookRix cover, select one of your previously uploaded images, OR upload a new image.

Let us know if you have any issues!

Thanks,

-The BookRix team

Unfortunately right now we don't offer the 'cover link' to post the book on blogs and other pages. But it will be back soon. I will post an update in this group when it's back on. Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.

Alright, thanks for getting back to me.

I agree. It leaves you with a great workshop to work on your stories on site~ so you can pull or log into it at any time on any comp/smartphone/ tablet etc. I often create books for my eyes only that contain plot summaries, notes, maybe abstracts of chapters, character studies, etc. That way I can pull from it / organize it at will without trying to figure out where I put that crumpled piece of paper or which computer I wrote down my thoughts in and in what file etc. It is all in Bookrix to pull from, make copies, tinker with etc.

Along with using all those parts to create a finished project for sale.

We at BookRix are really happy to read this. :-)
We hope that future changes will add to this.
Thanks for your positive feedback!

Yeah, I love the new style ;)

Hi ripples,

No, I'm sorry to say that you can't send group messages anymore - but if you create a new post, it will still send a notification to all the members, just like the group message did.

The big white block on your page is to make all your info easier to read. A lot of members were making so many changes that all the personal info, comments and book links were impossible to see. I've heard that people would be happier if it was at least an off white, so I'm going to bring it up at the meeting to see what we can do about it.

You can't use HTML on your profile anymore - for the reasons stated above :) It's sad, I know, but for the best!

In regards to your sale book, let me go and take a look - I'll post a message on your profile as soon as I have an answer!

Thanks Rebecca

PS: And please be lenient toward my English; unlike our Community Management we are not native English speakers, just a couple of German nerds working on that BX stuff. :-)

Nice knowing who's behind the development curtain xD

Looking forward to the new changes. Cheers.