If you need an honest review for your book and don't have two or three months to wait for it,
then Paid Book Reviews can help you.
Not exact matches
If i
pay Publishers Weekly and Kirkus
Reviews to
review my
book, can I
then claim i am a «highly
reviewed breakout author»?
In most cases, this
book was purchased, because the author
paid them to buy it and
then review it.
This is the company, elsevier, with spectacular profit rates, whch gets its material (papers,
books) which have mostly been produced at public expense (university salaries, public research grants), do very little actual editorial work (one usually has to supply papers charts etc «print ready»), get academic reviewers to
review the
books and papers free of charge (well,
paid for by universities or they do it in free time), depend on journal editors whose time is
paid for by (generally publicly funded) universities,
then sells the journals to the same universities, sometimes for subscription prices in the thousands of dollars.
About the only time I
pay no attention to the cover is if I have read killer
reviews on the
book, from sources I trust, and
then I don't
pay attention.
Here's one easy rule - of - thumb: If you didn't have your
book professionally edited, either by Outskirts Press or another professional editing service,
then apply your marketing dollars to something other than a
paid -
review.
Not only did they take down almost 50 of my
book's
reviews, but after I signed the petition and
then wrote a couple of emails asking why they were
paying it no mind my sales mysteriously tanked.
Besides, its all too easy now to
pay for
reviews,
pay agencies to buy your
books in bulk and
then return them at a later date.
Alison, how can the HuffPo article support a growing opinion that «if publishers can
pay others to
reviews books,
then indie authors should be given an equal opportunity to do so too»?
If you're prepared to
pay for a timely, professional
book review then that's your choice and, in my opinion, it's a very wise one.
If you want to know what the meanest reviewer on the block will say about your
book,
then pay for a Kirkus
review, and you'll receive a rather terse and sloppy
review.
Many authors also hate to
pay a fee to get their
books read, first, and
then reviewed.
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 p
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 p
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 p
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 p
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 p
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 p
then along comes this blog post.
Again, I never do that — I give my
books away for free to fans until I have hundreds of
book reviews...
then it's a lot easier to get strangers to
pay for it.
I do think that asking people to download or buy your
book and
then asking them to give an honest
review is just fine (as long as you aren't
paying them to do so).
Amazon especially is cracking down on purchased
reviews and if your
book can't stand on its own merit,
then the
paid reviews won't help you anyway.
Then someone launched a book called «How to travel for free» and then every trip, blog and review was about how much the blogger is getting paid for
Then someone launched a
book called «How to travel for free» and
then every trip, blog and review was about how much the blogger is getting paid for
then every trip, blog and
review was about how much the blogger is getting
paid for it.
Two things which I think could improve is I think it is a bit much to
pay $ 7 to use the outside BBQ, and we
booked a studio room so we could do a bit of cooking but we were to scared to do anything as we were told that even a toaster could set off the fire alarm and
then we would have to
pay approx $ 700 when the fire brigrade came, especially when the fire detector is between the small hotplates and the fan, Because of these two things, I don't know if I would stay there again, but everything else was good Cairns Queens Court Holiday Accommodation Guest
Review Response from Cairns Queens Court Holiday Accommodation Hi Lynne Thank you for taking the time to write a review of your stay with us at Queens
Review Response from Cairns Queens Court Holiday Accommodation Hi Lynne Thank you for taking the time to write a
review of your stay with us at Queens
review of your stay with us at Queens Court.
The agent will
then review the cost per ticket in miles plus any cash you'll
pay for taxes,
booking fees, and any applicable fuel surcharges.