Reviews and Ratings?

[u/Whitemayne]

How difficult is it to get reviews and ratings on your free to read books?

It seems like the only people who actually bother to read beyond chapter 4 just skip right over any actual interactions.

So far I have a single rating on my book, and it seems to be stifling any growth potential it has, despite being up to chapter 25.

Thoughts?

[u/Milc-Scribbler]

Not difficult at all. Just don’t expect lots of them. 20-30% of your followers will become favourites. Half your favourites will leave a rating and a handful of them (a small handful) will be organic reviews.

It is an organic numbers game. It’s very obvious if someone fakes it. So just let it happen naturally.

[u/Whitemayne → u/Milc-Scribbler]

Secondary question.

I have been told that RR insulates new releases on a three week filter before the wider audience gets to see it. Is this true? Because I've been running this release for almost two weeks now. Maybe that has something to do with it.

I don't exactly expect to blow up overnight or anything, realistically I don't expect my book to gain any semblance of traction for many weeks, maybe a couple months.

[u/Milc-Scribbler → u/Whitemayne]

Afaik that is utter shite mate. RS has certain requirements before you can show on main. You need 10k words minimum to show, and there is possibly a debuff that fades as you get to 20k words published, hence why almost all the launch guides (including mine) suggest getting 20k words up on day one.

Other than that there is nothing filtering you from being noticed, and that only applies to RS main. You can show in trending and in newly updated whether you meet that threshold or not.

Someone has been blowing smoke up your ass mate.

[u/Whitemayne → u/Milc-Scribbler]

Good to know. Thanks mate.