Secure Reviews and Set Yourself Up As a Reviewer IN A DAY
By Darin Jewell and Conrad Jones
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To raise your literary profile and market your book, it is essential to secure positive reviews and endorsements from well-recognized and well-respected literary experts. There are many pitfalls to avoid in this regard, like responding badly to negative reviews and leaving adverse reviews of other authors’ books. In this brief, we explain from whom you should seek reviews and how best to approach them. You can also set yourself up as an expert reviewer first before seeking reviews from others for your own book; we explain how to achieve this by joining the right review sites (Goodreads, Shelfari and BlogTalkRaido), offering to do interviews, reviewing one of your reviewer’s books; writing good reviews and always responding to any critics in a positive and polite manner, thanking them for their feedback even if their comments are less than favourable or constructive.
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Secure Reviews and Set Yourself Up As a Reviewer IN A DAY - Darin Jewell
CONTENTS
Where to Start
The Nature of Book Reviews
Whom and How to Ask for Reviews
Checklist of Details to Include in Your Review Request
Sample Review Request Letter
10 Best Practices for Seeking Book Reviews
Getting the Most from Your Book Reviews
Have Your Book Reviewed on Goodreads
Have Your Book Reviewed on Shelfari
Other Book Review Sites
Set Yourself Up as a Reviewer
Moving Up the Review Ladder
Book Endorsements
Blog Reviews
About the Authors
Other Works by the Authors
Secure Reviews and Set Yourself Up as a Reviewer IN A DAY
THAMES RIVER PRESS
An imprint of Wimbledon Publishing Company Limited (WPC)
Another imprint of WPC is Anthem Press (www.anthempress.com)
First published in the United Kingdom in 2013 by
THAMES RIVER PRESS
75–76 Blackfriars Road
London SE1 8HA
www.thamesriverpress.com
© Darin Jewell and Conrad Jones 2013
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced
in any form or by any means without written permission of the publisher.
The moral rights of the author have been asserted in accordance
with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All the characters and events described in this novel are imaginary
and any similarity with real people or events is purely coincidental.
A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN 978-0-85728-087-9
Cover design by Sylwia Palka
This book was produced using PressBooks.com.
Secure Reviews and Set Yourself Up as a Reviewer IN A DAY
There are many ways to raise your profile away from the online retailers but remember that the online stores and review sites, namely Amazon, Kobo, Tesco, Waterstones, Goodreads and Kindleboards, are where your customers are looking for good books. Facebook and Twitter are key to your promotional platform, but your readers are in the retailers and online bookshops (or e-tailers) and therefore raising your profile in those stores is vital to your book’s commercial success.
The key question is how can you do it without spamming the forums with posts and links that scream "buy my book’ and turn readers off? The answer is placing strategic positive, intelligent reviews on books in your genre. You also need to encourage your readers in the right way to leave reviews on your book. Positive five-star reviews move your books up the search engines, but one-star reviews will knock your book down the rankings equally fast.
Where to Start
Firstly, you need to have your book or ebook reviewed by as many friends and family members as you can and ask them to post an honest review. Books with published reviews and genuine testimonials from various ebook stores or your readers tend to get more attention and interest and thus sell more. It’s self-perpetuating. The more positive reviews you can secure for your book the higher up the ranking it goes; the higher up the ranking it goes the more your book will sell.
Try and reply to every review, good or bad. If it is good then you can build a rapport with the reviewer, which tends to generate more positive reviews from them in the future. If they are scathing, either ignore it or be polite and thank them for the time they spent reading and reviewing your book. We have all