We offer complete book publishing and promotion campaigns. We can help with how you package your book, how you distribute it, and how you reach readers. We provide services for authors in the United States and around the world. Our main brand is BooksGoSocial but we also provide editorial reviews under the International Review of Books brand and we have run the annual International Dublin Writers' Festival since 2014. Our focus is on supporting authors at every stage from idea to best selling status.
BooksGoSocial (bgsauthors.com) has 48 customer reviews on Five Star Index, with an average rating of 4.5 out of 5.
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2026
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I've had BGS do most of the covers in my Portia of the Pacific Historical Mystery series. They were great covers, and I've also done their book launch. Now that I see they're using A.I., which is the bulwark in the service I want to market to authors, I'm using them again for the Diamond promotion plan on Amazon ads with my first mystery in the series, and Facebook/Instagram/Tiktok, plus the mailings to get the info out on my new business. I've also recommended them for my clients who want to purchase ads and have them run efficiently! Tanja is a great manager, and has made some superb suggestions about this. I look forward the results and leads.
NG
Nancy G.
Great customer support
Very pleased with service and customer support.
Response from BooksGoSocialDec 12, 2022
Hi, we have sent you a new password and a code to get free access to all our other courses. Please check your spam folder. If you have not seen any reply, please email: [email protected]
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Eric Garner J.
Initially a disappointment, but they recovered and improved
I have been a client of BGS for almost three months, and chose the Platinum membership, which cost almost five hundred dollars. Since the start, I have sold exactly five books. The staff I have had contact with are very pleasant and helpful, and I have been contacted by Mr. O'Bryan, the founder of BGS. He was very generous in offering to help me directly, and I am going to give it a shot. I am amending my review to three stars for now, simply because they are trying to help me. I will post a final update later. Final update. I changed my review to five stars, not because I've sold any books (I haven't), but because the staff and owner of bgs have bent over backward to help me improve my listing, my cover, and even my sales strategy. Whether I actually sell many copies or not, I cannot fault them for lack of effort.
Response from BooksGoSocialDec 12, 2022
Hi, we have sent you an email and an offer to provide a free cover upgrade and a free format for a print edition and help edit your book description and a free extra month on NetGalley now or when book 2 comes out. Please check your spam folder. You may not be seeing our emails. If you have not seen any email, please email: [email protected] We can also refund you, but want to ensure you see all the offers to help your book sell.
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MH
BGS is the best book marketing company
BGS is a wonderful company to work with. I used their Editorial Review service, which was thoughtful, constructive and accurate, and I highly recommend it. You can read this review on the book's Amazon page.
I also purchased their NetGalley service for three months, which was excellent in providing quality reviews for my book, "Holmes's Complete Guide To Stop Drinking Alcohol; The Easy, Mindful and Pain-free way", which you can also read on the Amazon page.
BGS is simply the best book marketing company in the world.
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S.E. W.
BGS, you are awesome :)
I have recently self published a book, but was clueless about marketing. I hired BGS for their silver package.
It was set up for me quickly, and I was able to see the promo posts go up on Twitter several times a day.
The marketing person I was assigned was Denis. He replied to my emails within twelve hours, and was friendly and polite. One of the most important things to me is rapport and relatability with whoever I’m working with. The publishing business can be pretentious and very formal, and the the publishing company I used previously sent me generic copied and pasted replies, and the emails were impersonal. When you’ve put your heart and soul into a book, you need to know that the people who are looking after your book know you, know the book, and have a vested interest in its success. I feel that BGS give me the feeling of security and that close working relationship that is so important. In retrospect, I wish I had discovered BGS before I employed another company to initially publish my book.
I was happy with the service given to me with the silver package, and it did generate a few sales and reviews to help with gaining awareness of the book’s release. Nothing incredible happened, but BGS worked hard and it definitely helped, alongside a bit of my own promo.
I have now employed BGS to set up and run my Amazon ads (which to be frank, is a pain in the ar*e for anyone with limited knowledge!). I have yet to see if the ads generate sales, but if they do, I will keep using BGS indefinitely.
Real people with good souls. Top notch, dedicated service. Great pricing structure for indie authors.
TB
Tom B.
First Rate Service and Performance
I came across Books Go Social in August of 2019. Their website offered an interesting range of services for book reviews, launches, and promotions, with a range of prices my then-meager purse could afford. I decided to give them a try, not really expecting success, because for every hundred promises you're lucky to get a handful of successes, right? Well, Books Go Social is one organization that delivers what they promise, in my case more than two-hundred-fold. If you are a new author trying to navigate the fraught world of the modern literary marketplace, you can't have better advice and assistance than the bunch at BGS. Always helpful, always friendly, and always profitable! Obviously, I can't give them enough praise. Give them a try, you won't regret it!
JA
James Alan M.
I come from a family of writers who are…
I come from a family of writers who are also working with the people at BooksGoSocial and from what they tell me, the services these guys serve is a "Godsend."And I believe them. I don't have any experience with other publishing companies but I know they're mostly not that affordable, BooksGoSocial is MOST DEFINITELY that. They are thorough in their editing processes and they really go out of their way to understand your characters/story so that they can help you translate it into a format like you would only hope to achieve in your mind.
I just got done reading their third pass on my first book, "The Altered Moon," I read it all the way through and it felt like I was reading the story for the first time. And that's coming from someone who's been working on the same book, reading through the same story, for ten years!
I trust that this company and the head of it Mr. O'Brian, is going to do their best when the time comes to promote and sell the book. Though, I don't expect my career to sky rocket right off the bat, as I continue working with them, working on additional books and series of mine, that they can make my dreams of becoming a professional and well respected Author, a reality.
Thank you BooksGoSocial and everyone I've been in contact with over there.
DL
David L.
Highly recommend
Laurence and the team are very hands-on and keep in weekly contact with their clients.
They have taken the task of evolving my AMS ads for me and continue to do a terrific job.