Sentences with phrase «securing reader reviews»

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This 55 - minute on - demand seminar covers the importance of book reviews, how to ask readers for reviews, how to find bloggers to review your books, how to secure more online book reviews, and how to respond to reviews.

Literary readers rely heavily on reviews to make their reading choices, so I would encourage hybrid / indie writers to try to secure reviews from respected review journals like Kirkus or Publishers Weekly.

And then I remembered, I had an agent, a great agent, I wrote great books (so all the rejecting editors told me) and yes, you are right, self pub has given my stories a voice and an ear and the chance to be read, when they otherwise would have still been gathering dust on my hard drive, yet, on the other hand this is hard, REALLY HARD, it is SO hard to find your way to a readership as a SP, with limited funds (dwindling)... and the glimmer of trad pub — with their power to splash your name around established circles of readers, and their ability to secure a great number of reviews where, as a self pub, doors have been slammed in my face — becomes temptingly shiny again, (it's like childbirth, you forget all the painful stuff with time)... and it all gets very tempting... almost tempting enough to consider sacrificing one work JUST one artistic premise for the trade off of visibility... and then perhaps, just perhaps THEN, my SP efforts will finally sprout wings... but then I hear you and other say, it wasn't worth it, you'd never do it again, and I sigh... And then I wake up the next morning and think of packing it all in, and going to work for Walmart and steady shitty pay... lol And then along comes this blog post.

To secure reviews for an indie book, authors had just a few options last year: paid review services (offered by outlets such as Kirkus, IndieReader, BlueInk Review, and Self - Publishing Review); customer reviews (solicited by sending review copies to beta readers or via Goodreads or social media giveaways); or a blog tour, where bloggers run an excerpt, review, or q & a — none of which usually leads to coverage in the traditional review services (offered by outlets such as Kirkus, IndieReader, BlueInk Review, and Self - Publishing Review); customer reviews (solicited by sending review copies to beta readers or via Goodreads or social media giveaways); or a blog tour, where bloggers run an excerpt, review, or q & a — none of which usually leads to coverage in the traditional Review, and Self - Publishing Review); customer reviews (solicited by sending review copies to beta readers or via Goodreads or social media giveaways); or a blog tour, where bloggers run an excerpt, review, or q & a — none of which usually leads to coverage in the traditional Review); customer reviews (solicited by sending review copies to beta readers or via Goodreads or social media giveaways); or a blog tour, where bloggers run an excerpt, review, or q & a — none of which usually leads to coverage in the traditional review copies to beta readers or via Goodreads or social media giveaways); or a blog tour, where bloggers run an excerpt, review, or q & a — none of which usually leads to coverage in the traditional review, or q & a — none of which usually leads to coverage in the traditional media.

Most readers will know that this was Taseko's second attempt to secure federal approval for its proposed mine and that the federal review panel that conducted the second environmental assessment (EA) concluded that, like the original Prosperity project, it too was likely to result in significant adverse environmental effects (SAEEs)(for more on the panel's report, see my previous post here)...

If your resume does not eliminate you as a potential candidate on first review, it will be the words used in your resume to describe your soft skills, hard skills and experience that will attract the reader and secure the opportunity you are competing for; the job interview.