You might also like the notes from past Indie Publishing Austin events, all of which are collected on my blog — you can find a ton of valuable indie author information there, from platform building to audiobooks to how indie
authors get reviews to a breakdown of publicity for authors.
So how do self - published
authors get reviews on distribution sites before their official release?
DGT Book Promotions offers two affordable book review services: editorial book reviews and our book review list to help
authors get the reviews they need.
ReviewSt is our sister company which focuses on helping
authors get reviews in return for a free copy of their book.
As a new
author getting reviews from professionals is hard.
We will hold the publication of the review until you go live so that we help promote sales, but many
authors get reviewed before publication so they can use the review for their book cover or publicity.
Though in a few cases this helps
an author get reviews for subsequent books, most reviewers said they decide whether or not to read new books by previously reviewed authors based on the content and quality of the book, and not by their relationship with the author.
Why do so few books by female
authors get reviewed in major publications?
Not exact matches
Browse through some of our
author success stories, and
get a glimpse of what exactly an indie
review from Kirkus can do for you.
By purchasing a Kirkus indie
review,
authors can have the opportunity to build some name recognition and
get noticed by agents, publishers and other industry influencers.
We've
got books briefly noted by
authors as good as James Bowman, Anthony Sacramone, and Frederica Mathewes - Green — together with full
reviews from such
authors as Shalom Carmy (
reviewing James Q. Whitman's The Origins of Reasonable Doubt) and Caitrin Nicol (
reviewing Steve Talbott's Devices of the Soul) and Fr.
If / when an
author in the group becomes published, he / she promises to help other members in the group also
get published, and in return, they promise to write about and
review the
author's book so they can sell more copies.
The book just recently came out and
got a great
review from Cathy Parisi, founder of Waterbirth International, and Barbara Harper,
author of Gentle Birth Choices, who called it «the best doula book ever written».
A group of professional health organizations,
authors and individuals
got together and
reviewed all the research findings along with the World Health Organization recommendations and developed the «gold standard» of maternity care; the Mother - Friendly Childbirth Initiative (MFCI).»
There are always a few dissenting opinions, but most of the time you can
get an idea of whether or not a stroller will hold up and be easy to use by reading several
reviews by different
authors.
«The moment you are a good
author publishing papers, you might expect to
get invitations for peer
review,» Marusic says.
One thing that's important for you, the
author, is the quality of the
review and the length of time it takes for your work to
get reviewed and, once accepted, into print.
For
authors, it's a chance to
get their peer -
reviewed results in front of the scientific community as much as four to six weeks before they would otherwise appear in print.
Remaining an associate editor is directly linked to performance, if we
get reviews done in a timely way, and interact positively with
authors so they are not calling the editor to yell at him, we keep our positions.
For a $ 750 payment to NPG,
authors are guaranteed a
review within 3 weeks or they
get their money back.
You don't
get four disparate
reviews from four reviewers, but one consolidated
review that is a collaborative effort so the
author isn't stuck with being asked to do 98 different experiments.
students completing their research projects in our lab; my Ph.D. student passing his first - year
review; my first last -
author papers
getting published; my lab members presenting their work at international conferences; and winning intramural funding for my research.
For some output types, RIO also asks
authors to
get a presubmission
review of their manuscript «from an appropriate colleague.»
The advantages of a preprint journal club over a journal club
reviewing published papers are 1) lab members read the latest material (often posted within the previous week or two), 2) they feel that
reviewing a paper is not an empty exercise (because the paper is already published), but something that actually helps people, 3) they learn about improving manuscripts, and 4)
authors get more feedback.
The paper isn't peer -
reviewed and the
author indicates he doesn't feel inclined to attempt to
get the paper
reviewed / published.
Despite claims of using a «science - based» approach with sophisticated algorithm - based matching, the
authors found «no published, peer -
reviewed papers — or Internet postings, for that matter — that explained in sufficient detail... the criteria used by dating sites for matching or for selecting which profiles a user
gets to peruse.»
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All great
authors know that a killer first line is almost more important than the first few pages, and
authors put in hours of work just to
get Following is a list of the 100 best first lines from novels, as decided by the American Book
Review, a nonprofit journal published at the Unit
The
authors suggest that the literacy coach begin by connecting a new initiative to current practice to validate teachers» prior efforts, choose generative practices that raise important questions about teaching, establish teaching credentials by spending significant amounts of time teaching in the classroom, focus teacher training on student learning, use a repertoire of coaching strategies, and
get into the habit of regularly videotaping and
reviewing lessons and demonstrations.
Not that we needed it, but we're
getting some validation of those opinions thanks to a first drive
review for the 2018 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV from CarBuzz.com
author Jonathan Yarkony.
I was discussing this with someone yesterday, going back and forth at possible explanations, which included that self - pubbed
authors tend to work the
review mines harder than their trad pubbed peers, or have more support from other indie
authors reviewing, or
get higher ratings due to the generally lower price of the work (greater satisfaction due to a price / performance expectation).
«Every time I
get a 1 star
review, I nod approvingly because it means I'm expanding my reach and more people are taking a chance on me as an
author.»
Some of the challenges faced by self - published
authors include an unspoken stigma attached to self - pubbed books,
getting reviews and publicity, and ultimately, distribution.
Guernica: The recent VIDA count results suggest male
authors still
get more
review coverage than their female counterparts.
Sure, you can send out
review copies and make book trailers (not for $ 150 tho), but if an
author's end goal is to attract more readers — or even a publishing contract — they first need to
get their work in front of people who can help them, and that's what the IRDAs are all about.
Luckily, in this guest post,
author Jodie Toohey provides some great places to
get reviews, as well as some other tips for
getting reviews for your books.
Some
authors believe it's the publisher's job to
get advance
review copies into the hands of book reviewers.
Every day I see
authors complain that their expensive
review copies are immediately sold on Amazon as «new» and they
get no
review, or worse, a one - sentence one - star.
Authors need book
reviews... the hard part is
getting them.
# 54 of The Writing Coach podcast, I speak with
author and entrepreneur Jason B. Ladd about his new book for indie authors, Book Review Bonzai: The Unknown Author's Ultimate Guide to Getting Amazon Re
author and entrepreneur Jason B. Ladd about his new book for indie
authors, Book
Review Bonzai: The Unknown
Author's Ultimate Guide to Getting Amazon Re
Author's Ultimate Guide to
Getting Amazon
Reviews.
When
authors get friend requests from people they don't know, is it best to «friend» or «follow
reviews»?
A question we
get from
authors is how to send
review copies of their book to potential reviewers.
What makes my heart sing after I've filed a new
review is to receive a message from the
author saying that I totally «
got» their book.
«The trick is that if you have an
author that is struggling to find that audience, to find that readership — Alan [Russell] is a perfect example, because he always
got wonderful
reviews, is a fantastic writer, still has a great relationship with his former editor at St. Martins, but there was always a struggle to find that readership.
It explains why it is hard for
authors to
get reviews — even from family and friends, & why we need them, plus a template that helps readers write a brief
review for the book, step - by - step instructions and the URLs they can use to post.
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If they don't know you, you can
get blurbs and
reviews from lots of people — and hopefully other
authors they do trust.
Many
authors are content to
get a
review from beta readers.
But as you said, even bad
reviews can help us as
authors, so we shouldn't
get too hung up on their negative affects.