Reviews can help sell more copies of your books, including Kindle ebooks. However, many authors are unsure about how to send review copies of Kindle ebooks to potential reviewers. It turns out that Amazon provides a simple way to send copies of your ebook to anyone. The above video explains it in more detail. To…
Category Archives: Book Reviews
Avoid Bad Book Reviewers
Many book reviewers are out there. Many good book reviewers are out there. But so are some less than honest reviewers who will produce reviews for books they haven’t even read. No matter how popular a book reviewer may be, if that reviewer isn’t reading the books he reviews, he is doing authors a disservice….
Finding Qualified Book Reviewers
Book reviews are essential recommendations to get readers to buy your books. But not all reviewers do a professional job when reviewing; some don’t even read the books they supposedly review. Here are some guidelines to help authors determine which reviewers are legitimate and a good choice for reviewing their books. Back in the twentieth…
Author Tips: How to Get Your Book Reviewed
Are you wondering how your recently published book can receive more reviews? You may have heard that dedicated book blogs are excellent sources for exposure. Studies have shown that the online word-of-mouth (WOM) that comes from a recommendation can be more effective than even social networking. Self-published author Amanda Hocking was very recently in the…
Author Friends Make Effective Fans
All authors want to promote their books, but their readers are not always the best at building buzz for them. An excellent way authors can find people to share their vision for marketing their books is to ally with other authors, become each other’s fans, and cross-promote. No one understands the need and desire to…
What Writers Can Learn from Criticism
Nobody likes a critic and yet everybody is one. We all have our opinions and some of us put them to good use by becoming critics. Unfortunately, this means that there is a measuring stick by which your work will be judged when it comes time for you to publish. And while there are literary…
What If You Get a Great Review?
So you’ve written a book. You’ve published it (whether traditionally, publish on demand, joint venture, or self published). You finally have this thing that you’ve been working so long and so hard on in print. If you didn’t before, you’ve probably realized by now that the true work begins after your work comes out in…
How to Handle a Bad Review
Face it. Bad reviews happen. Even the most acclaimed writers get bad reviews. Evaluating a book is a subjective process, and personal preferences won’t always match the book. Unfortunately, too many writers take bad reviews personally and even go to the extremes, engaging in negative banter, slander, and threats. Here are a few tips to…
The Death of the Book Review?
Industry experts offer varying opinions on the issue of book reviews, but as anyone in the publicity business knows, securing ‘traditional’ book reviews is more difficult than in years past. Large galley mailings are becoming less common. Instead, as my agency has done, the more efficient and economical practice is targeted advance review copy mailings,…
Turning a Negative Book Review into a Positive
You can’t win them all. It’s as true in book publicity as it is in any other part of life. So when you open up that newspaper or log on to that blog only to find your book torn to pieces by a rabid reviewer, how do you possibly walk away with some positive thoughts?…
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