I’m with Julian 100% on the whole "credits should be for readers, not authors" thing.
I don’t think we can expect any other authors to go through the effort of scrutinizing a reader’s profile page before sending a pitch - people are just going to send a pitch. One reader who doesn’t like scifi getting a scifi pitch isn’t going to hurt Author A at all; they’re going to methodically send 100 pitches a day, hoping to gain some interest. It won’t matter if a reader’s profile says "Interested in: scifi" or not. No one is going to go to that level of effort before deciding to pitch.
(If you want a tip for who to pitch to, just go to a book that you think shares your target audience and pitch to all of its readers.)
It would be cool if Inkshares allowed readers to identify what genres they’re accepting pitches from for a given month, and then the system could automatically stop pitches from other genres from going through. Authors could just receive a "[Reader] is not accepting horror pitches at this time" message, and then maybe readers would actually READ THEIR PITCHES instead of disregarding them because there are sooo many.
The fact that readers can’t browse by genre needs to be fixed immediately. We as author should also be able to tag our projects with key words that readers can search by. These would improve the reader experience immensely.
(Now that I’m on a roll...) The fact that I can search for "Matt Sobin" and
@Matthew Isaac Sobin doesn’t show up as a possible search result is frustrating. Same goes for searching for "A Life Engineered" when I really mean "The Life Engineered". These things need to be fixed.
I’m not a fan of requiring a fee to post a project; I don’t see the point of that. There’s already a limit to the number of pitches you can send to a given reader: one. I don’t see how asking an author to pay $15 would do anything to recruit readers.
I don’t think we can expect any other authors to go through the effort of scrutinizing a reader’s profile page before sending a pitch - people are just going to send a pitch. One reader who doesn’t like scifi getting a scifi pitch isn’t going to hurt Author A at all; they’re going to methodically send 100 pitches a day, hoping to gain some interest. It won’t matter if a reader’s profile says "Interested in: scifi" or not. No one is going to go to that level of effort before deciding to pitch.
(If you want a tip for who to pitch to, just go to a book that you think shares your target audience and pitch to all of its readers.)
It would be cool if Inkshares allowed readers to identify what genres they’re accepting pitches from for a given month, and then the system could automatically stop pitches from other genres from going through. Authors could just receive a "[Reader] is not accepting horror pitches at this time" message, and then maybe readers would actually READ THEIR PITCHES instead of disregarding them because there are sooo many.
The fact that readers can’t browse by genre needs to be fixed immediately. We as author should also be able to tag our projects with key words that readers can search by. These would improve the reader experience immensely.
(Now that I’m on a roll...) The fact that I can search for "Matt Sobin" and @Matthew Isaac Sobin doesn’t show up as a possible search result is frustrating. Same goes for searching for "A Life Engineered" when I really mean "The Life Engineered". These things need to be fixed.
I’m not a fan of requiring a fee to post a project; I don’t see the point of that. There’s already a limit to the number of pitches you can send to a given reader: one. I don’t see how asking an author to pay $15 would do anything to recruit readers.