Not exact matches
Your session on The New Rules of Marketing and PR received rave
reviews from the audience and, as a testament to how interesting and informative you were, we are
still getting requests for extra copies of your
book.
So December will be a little quiet, though I've
still got some good stuff lined up for the month: a
review of Christena Cleveland's
book Disunity in Christ, «Ask an Open Theist» with Greg Boyd, a list of 101 amazing Christian women speakers, and a cheat sheet for N.T. Wright's latest
book.
I agree with a lot of the lesser
reviews of this
book, but felt that it
still should
get four stars, whilst it has recipes which cooks and chefs would not call recipes in the wider sense I don't personally think that Ella in both her
books is neccesarily all about the recipes.
These are great tips,
still can't believe I haven't
got round to doing number 5 Natasha Mairs recently posted... The Secrets Sisters Keep by Sinead Moriarty
Book Review
Even if it results in an occasional
review getting pulled, the
book marketing benefit of social media
still outweighs this concern.
If you can't give your
book away for free, it's probably because you
still haven't
gotten 10 +
reviews, or your cover is ugly.
I'm a former museum publicist who could
get museum exhibitions
review in all the media in the Bay Area and many across the nation, as well as p.r. for that museum's published
books — and a former journalist with good press rapport — yet the
book is
still blanked by the media.
Reblogged this on Tammy J Rizzo and commented:
Still more excellent advice for self - publishing authors, on how to (not)
get your
book reviewed, again from Catherine, Caffeinated.
Still, the
book got enough good
reviews to encourage me.
This is my current favourite way of finding quality reviewers on Goodreads and you'll even be able to find Top Amazon reviewers who are
still active: Easiest Way To
Get Book Reviews!
Still I
get almost daily requests for
book reviews.
Needless to say when we
get approached by folks who want us to
review their
books or post guest blogs, we're
still somewhat shocked.
But I'm
still struggling to
get enough
reviews of my own
books, even with high Goodreads ratings and good cover design.
Even if it is all about the host, or the blogger, perhaps they do
book reviews — which is
still a great opportunity for you to
get your content in front of a new audience.
Although traditional
book publicists
still think of
book reviews as mainly appearing in newspapers, magazines, and journals, there are also online opportunities to
get book reviews.
If you're interested in
getting a
book deal for a new
book, then it
still has to pass the standard
review process, but you'll have the extra advantage of an incredible track record.
Even the very best authors
still get 1, 2, and 3 star
reviews on their
books.
I
still remember
getting Encrypted
reviewed at The Fantasy
Book Critic, a big site that usually sticks to traditionally published stuff (or at least it did back then) and that I
got a nice boost in sales that February.
Still, if you've
got a well - organized
review campaign in place, it's possible to
get honest
reviews posted and shared on your publication date so that people who learn about the
book see honest reader feedback as soon as they visit the
book's sales page.
You need more than 84
book reviews (this is down from 101... so good needs —
still a
book load to gather) before Amazon will recommend your
book to other visitors in the section that says, «People who bought this also bought...» GO
get them... ask and re-ask... it's what you have to do
There are no barriers to publication now, and you can write garbage but
still get a lot of people to write glowing
reviews that convince others that your
book is amazing.
They make all the difference and it's due to their sharing, re-sharing and dead honest
reviews, that my
book got as far as it did and is
still selling today!
I'm
still getting books to read and at least
review books don't have to be returned in 2 or 3 weeks.
One can pay several hundred dollars to
get their
book reviewed, yet
still get a bad
review.
It's funny — even after shutting down my
book review blog, I
still get emails all the time asking me to
review books.
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.
So far I have sent out
review request letters one has
gotten back to me and agree to
review my
book, I have started researching
book clubs in my genre, and I have joined communities and discussion groups online but my sales are
still scant, I have heard of the blog tours but I feel discourage, in my mind I can't figure out what I have to offer as a gust blogger but like you said I have to change my frame of mind because I do love my
book and I'm proud of it.
Even in an age where every reader can post amateur ratings and
reviews books on sites like Amazon, GoodReads and Barnes and Noble, writers and publishers
still scramble to
get professional
book reviews from credible sources.
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.
I finally
got in (I have one hardcover
book out recently being very well
reviewed — I write the kinds of
books that
still do well in hardcover but don't sell much in ebook).
I have over 50
books and I have launched dozens, and dozens of
books, but it
still a pain point trying to
get reviews.
experiment with amazon ads, use 300 + keywords and see what converts the best (you won't
get many sales on a preorder
book with no
reviews, but you can
still see which keywords
get the most visibility and clicks).
She hired someone she liked, but the
book still got a
review citing editing.
Still, the overwhelmingly positive
reviews this hotel
gets on every major
booking site can't be ignored.
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