What do people think about a section where we can ask for suggestions for published books to read? I'm thinking of it as primarily a way to help people find comps, but people could also find some nice reading suggestions from it. But while I read a ton, I know I struggle to find good comps for my MS, so it's the sort of thing I think would be useful. Maybe you've written a YA dystopia, but you need help finding comps that aren't things like Hunger Games or Maze Runner. Or you've got some comps that really match your book well, but they're not recent enough. So you can make a post describing what sort of things you're looking for, and people can chime in with their ideas. Do people think that would be a useful section to have?
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Kind of agreeing here. It's a good idea. Prob easiest to categorize it by genre, and then we can give each book in the genre sub-tags for voice / other categories for genre. Anything other than genre is going to be highly subjective, so let's remove that from the category list.
I guess what I am saying is this. Make sub-forums for genres (use the same categories as the private forums?), then possibly a list of tags that could be applied to the book. For example, these could be sub-categories of the genre (such as Dark Fantasy within SFF), and other aspects that could be used for comps (humour, action, character driven, world building, etc).
If we aren't careful, this could REALLY run away from us, so KISS principle at the beginning. Let the 'users' be the ones to flesh it out more later on.