I've learned that even
the smaller book bloggers are backed - up for months, so if you want to make a splash and have reviews come out around a certain date, you'll have to secure those reviews three to four months in advance.
Not exact matches
Endorsed by 22 prominent business and environmental leaders including Chicken Soup co-creator Jack Canfield and innovation
blogger / author Seth Godin, the
book also includes guest essays from Cynthia Kersey (author of Unstoppable and Unstoppable Women) and Frances Moore Lappé (author of Diet for a
Small Planet and many other
books on food and democracy).
Now mid -,
small - and micro-publishers are bringing traditionally printed, ebooks and POD titles to readers who learn about the
books not from the NYTimes but from
book bloggers and friends on social media.
Yes, sometimes authors and
bloggers will help out, but this is a
small part of
book publicity, not the center piece of it.
Much like NetGalley does for professional reviewers and
book bloggers alike, First To Read works on a
smaller but vital scale.
The «self publishing racket» is really becoming a huge industry, and it's spawning a subsidiary, hugely profitable racket: paying to get reviewed, since more and more reviewers and
book bloggers are refusing to even look at
small press, self - published or vanity press
books.
It has gotten very difficult for
small press titles to get reviews; many
book bloggers now ignore them and only accept
books from large and / or well - known publishers.
Awards A controversy emerged just a day before the National
Book Awards ceremony as author /
blogger Janice Harayda suggested that Kathi Appelt, a judge in the Young People» s category, should recuse herself because finalist David
Small had illustrated her novel.
And sometimes, that
small bit of goodwill can make all the difference when it comes time for a reader to pick their next
book or for a
blogger to assign a review score or for a fellow author to make a recommendation.
And NetGalley is becoming quite the force for large and
small houses to get their
books in front of
bloggers, reviewers, and readers.
Few
bloggers also write a
small review for the
book.
One day, authors are going to have to realize the importance of reaching out to
book bloggers (with big and
small followings).
Bloggers can excerpt a
small portion of an author's
book for review purposes.