Amazon has a tab on your author page that readers can hit to follow their favorite authors to get alerted to new releases. Do you know how many readers are following you? I believe that until recently, this number wasn’t shown to authors. But it is now, if the number is more than 20. To find out if you have any followers, you need to go to your Author Central page. There you can:
Click the “Reports + Marketing” tab
Go to the “Reports” section.
You can then see the number of your followers under “Amazon Followers.”
If you dare.
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I was born in 1950 and spent the 1960’s reading hundreds of SF books while dreaming of becoming a SF author when I grew up. I enrolled as a journalism major in college, but dropped that after my freshman year when I realized I was too shy to be a journalist. I then decide I either had the talent to write or I didn’t. Time would tell. In the late 1970’s I finished and submitted a SF novella, a SF short story, and a fantasy novel. They brought me a small collection rejection slips. I continued to write for fun. In 2009, now with a computer with a built in spellchecker I got more serious and completed three novels the course of next six years, for the fun of writing. I had no intention of submitting them to traditional publishers. Been there, done that. If I felt they were good enough, I’d self-publish them, which I did in 2015, for free since I don’t need to be paid for having fun. As of 2021 I have published 10 SF/adventure novels, 2 novellas and one children’s short story.
I’m married. My wife and I have two children, and two grandchildren. I have lived most of my life in Wisconsin. I’ve worked at various jobs, including 13 year with a commercial printer and small town daily newspaper. I operated a cottage industry mail order tea business for a decade, and quit my day job at 53 to try my hand a making a living as an artist. Never made it big, never went bust. We’re retired these days and living a quiet life. The type of life I like.
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Woohoo!! I have 34 followers!! Is that good or bad?
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I didn’t know about this, even though I regularly visit Author Central! I was surprised to see 66 followers.
I have to admit I don’t know what anyone gets from following. Maybe because I don’t actually follow anyone on Amazon.
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I managed to find it eventually, but it looks like I have 56 followers. I have no idea why people are following me because I’ve no clue as to where I’m going.
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“If you dare,” being the operative phrase!
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I didn’t see the 20 follower baseline when I looked, but I was happy to find 212 followers vs 6 on Goodreads. Though to be honest, I don’t know how much of an effect having followers have on anything.
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I believe a follower gets an email whenever an author publishes something. At a minimum. A number of years ago I published something. A friend who had read my first book asked my wife about my new book. The only way I think she would have learned about it is thru a follow on Amazon.
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“We’ll display your follower count here after you reach 20+ followers.” — to be expected…
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