CN Central: Directing readers to my book

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  • Kate Nivison

    Kate Nivison

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  • 31 Jan 00:18

    Anna, could you tell me the quickest way to direct readers/buyers to my book?
    Now that the website has changed, I even have trouble getting to it directly myself!
    www.completelynovelcom/Kate_Nivison doesn’t seem to lead them there directly, yet I thought this was the idea of having this.
    I recommend the website, but people say they can’t find my book at all easily. I miss that scroll system that used to come up first pop. At least with persistence, people could scroll across and find a particular book.
    Now Completely Novel books seemed to be swamped by books on Amazon.
    Is anyone else finding this a problem?
    Surely, if people know the author and/or the title, there should be a direct link to it?
    Thanks,
    Kate Nivison

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    • Kate Nivison
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      Kate - Page ranger: +60

      31 Jan 00:18

      Anna, could you tell me the quickest way to direct readers/buyers to my book?
      Now that the website has changed, I even have trouble getting to it directly myself!
      www.completelynovelcom/Kate_Nivison doesn’t seem to lead them there directly, yet I thought this was the idea of having this.
      I recommend the website, but people say they can’t find my book at all easily. I miss that scroll system that used to come up first pop. At least with persistence, people could scroll across and find a particular book.
      Now Completely Novel books seemed to be swamped by books on Amazon.
      Is anyone else finding this a problem?
      Surely, if people know the author and/or the title, there should be a direct link to it?
      Thanks,
      Kate Nivison

    • Hi Kate – I know I sent you an email reply, but thought would put something in here too, for others to see.

      Your author page is the best page to give to other people if you want them to head straight to your titles, rather than find out more about you and what you are like as a reader (not just a writer). That can be found if you click on the ‘Portfolio’ link which is on the left of your profile (or via the dropdown arrow from the ‘My Home’ tab).

      An alternative is for people to just search for the title in the main search bar of the site. If you type in ‘THe Wine is Reed’ for example, your book comes up in the list so your visitors can click straight to it from there.

      Thanks,

      Anna

      - Anna 11 Feb 13:07
    • Thanks, Anna, but I’ve now found that the best thing to do in my case to direct people to THE WINE IS RED is to request them to use SEARCH and using KATE NIVISON, rather than the title. If they use the title, masses of other books about wine from Amazon come up, which are nothing to do with Com Nov, which is no good at all.
      Everything else seems far to complicated.
      However, I think SEARCH using my name only works here because it’s an unusual name.
      Glad I’m not a Smith!
      But at least I now have a way of instructing people to access it.
      Thanks,
      Kate

      - Kate 18 Feb 12:31

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