Sentences with phrase «getting book reviews takes»

Yes, getting book reviews takes a lot of work and effort, and it kind of sucks to ask people (especially strangers) to take chance on your book.

Getting your book reviewed takes effort, and you'll have to work especially hard to get your work noticed by the magazines and periodicals that really count: Publisher's Weekly, Library Journal, etc..

Not exact matches

Frankly, we're intrigued and can't wait to get our hands on one, but that sentiment is tempered by venerable consumer product review house Consumer Reports, which already is taking a pass on recommending the new Surface Book because of problems with the original version.

Sometimes a blogger bites off more than she can chew: I promised to review Kate Adamick's book Lunch Money over the summer but it's taken me longer than expected to get through my reading pile!

Consider this: you've worked hard to write your book, taken great pains to publish it correctly, gotten good reviews, done appearances, and promoted your book far and wide.

But getting reviews for your self - published book from bloggers or social media celebrities is going to take substantial effort.

It could take them six months to get to your book, they may change their mind and not review your book at all, OR they may write the review tomorrow and forget to tell you.

Take the back door into reviews If you don't get a review in one of the major publications, consider taking the back door approach if appropriate: Go for a review of the audio version of the book.

If you'd like to continue reading and find out what happens next, you can get the book from Kindle for just $ 2.99 (link); and if you want to be a rockstar and patron of the arts please leave a quick review on the Amazon page — it just takes a minute but will mean more to me than you'll ever know.

If you're looking to not only get more reviews but to boost the exposure and sales of your book, then I would definitely take the time to do this!

Many authors get overwhelmed by the exact steps to take — when should you build an email list, how do you get book reviews, what should you price your book?

Let them know that you're struggling to get reviews, and if anyone has read your books, then to please take a moment to review your book.

If your book gets reviewed, be sure to reply with a nice thank - you email for the time they took to read your book.

I have seen from my own experience, that once a book gets more than a handful of reviews (friends and family are often the first to review books and won't count for much), book sales take off much faster.

To get somebody to forego watching TV, reading a book, or browsing Facebook in favor of reviewing your book takes a substantial offer with strong perceived benefit.

, that it takes at least as long for a change in the product description to get through Apple's review process as it does the for the actual book to be reviewed.

Decide what step you want them to take (join your mailing list, read reviews, buy your book, get a sample, etc) and focus on that.

Authors who take advantage of Trafford's Gold Seal Opportunity get their books externally critiqued by the highly respected book reviewers in the industry such as Kirkus, ForeWord Clarion, and the US Review of Bbooks externally critiqued by the highly respected book reviewers in the industry such as Kirkus, ForeWord Clarion, and the US Review of BooksBooks.

Getting book reviews may be the most important step you can take to jump - start sales and add credibility to your book.

When you take out a subscription with PressReader or PressDisplay you get access to The Sunday New York Times, The New York Times Magazine and The New York Times Sunday Book Review.

Or take the advice of Garner: When asked in another «Knight News» interview by Orbach, «What's the way to get your book reviewed?»

Produce a great book (design and production is important) then finally take action to get your book reviewed.

Done this way, I don't think I'll get negative reviews: I explain I'm not doing it to take advantage of readers; I'm doing it because I'm trying to find cheaper ways to get my books out to them.

From radio and cable TV interviews, to blog interviews and book reviews, Smith took the initiative and helped Testarossa and I get the exposure needed to get to the next level.

Lots of new authors have this reaction — they get onto twitter and annoy the rest of us with «Buy this» tweets or «Please share this, please review my book, please take notice» posts.

It doesn't take long for a link library to get out of date, and all the hard work you've put into marketing yourself on blogs, in book reviews, and on podcasts is suddenly undone as your links become out of date or even extinct.

I feel it when I see reviews or get emails from people who say they literally couldn't put down Take Back Tomorrow, when someone reads The Somniscient late into the night and then is compelled to start reading again first thing in the morning, when people tell me they've been kept up until 3 o'clock in the morning because they couldn't bear to stop reading, when someone who listens to audio books only in the car says she broke her rule and listened to LC Kane's reading of The Girl at the End of the World throughout her day because she HAD to find out what happened next...

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Gideon's Loop is a science fiction adventure that has a great rating on Amazon and great reviews as well but all I get is people who want to take your money and run with no results and they won't return your emails, for instance pageonelit.com say that they will represent your book for 50 dollars at the BEA CONFERENCE.

In most cases, it won't even take you an hour to get your book into the system and under review.

Readers will take any excuse they can get to leave a bad review for your book.

Besides, whining about a literary agent that takes 10 % and may get your book reviewed widely and translated into other languages (more royalties)

People who loathe the KDP Select freebies can take out their frustrations by leaving one - star reviews, and they don't even have to buy or read the book to do this and get it to show as an Amazon Verified Purchase.

How Publishing Really works has a normal feature where they review self - published books, and one of the best categories on there is the «page number test», where the reviewer says how many pages they got through before they just couldn't take it anymore.

Joyce, you say, «How Publishing Really works has a normal feature where they review self - published books, and one of the best categories on there is the «page number test», where the reviewer says how many pages they got through before they just couldn't take it anymore.

I just don't know... I totally understand that priority # 1 for many authors is getting their book out there and reviewed, but... taking the time to find out of a blog is still active and if they even review should be the first step.

Getting your book noticed is going to take time and effort, and one of the quickest ways to do that is to get reviews.

Bottom line, get into the habit of checking for reviews on your book page and take the time to respond.

Traditional publishing houses take care of promoting your book and getting reviews in mass media outlets.

As with book bloggers, taking the time to build a connection with these reviewers prior to pitching them can increase your chances of getting reviewed exponentially.

Before we get knee deep into the «how» of getting book reviews, let's take a look at why (or whether) we need them.

If you can't get anyone to buy your book, give it away for free to anybody who will take it, until you start getting more positive reviews (don't start marketing until you have at least 10... 25 is better).

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As a self - publisher, you have many steps to take to get your book to market and spread the news, and utlimately get sales and reviews.

I think I have figured out what I need to do in order to get my book accepted (wait until Click Date Repeat has a lot more reviews and publish another book), but it will take waiting quite a while before I resubmit.

Personally, I took about a seven month break from book reviewing (mostly non-fiction with the occasional novel thrown in for ha - ha's), mostly because I felt I was getting burned out from trying to come up with fresh new ways to describe why I liked, or didn't like, a particular book.

And then it took more than a year for my publisher to edit my book, create the cover, do the typesetting, get reviews, and ship it to stores.

If they take that gift card and use it to buy one of your books and then post a review, I can almost guarantee you'll get it pulled.

It has to build trust, attract the right readers, and get them to sign up for a free offer or sell a book well enough to get strangers to take a chance on it (with lots of reviews, an excerpt, and amazing cover, etc).