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Valiant Readers, the Writers of the World Need YOu by Mark A ODwyer
Rated "G" by the Author.
Every writer loves a reviewer. Readers, you have the power!
Mawson Bear’s Guardian Mark speaks: As you know our Mawson is a Writer-Bear. She Ran Away From Love is his latest new book. It features a small heroine called Frilly who goes on a Quest. I’m sure lots of people (and their bears) will love Frilly, if only they knew about her. And it is the same for every writer: if only readers knew about their books!
THE POWER OF REVIEWS: Writers need YOUR help. When you are quiet sort of writer (or writer-bear) it is not easy to be heard out there in the wide world.
Books by Mawson, one of this bright world’s few published writer bears
TIPS if you are new to the world of on-line book reviews.
About your name: You don’t have to leave your name if you don’t want to. You can be anonymous.
About where to put your review. You click on the information about the book at the sellers page. For instance, here are links toShe Ran Away From Love: Amazon, GoodReads, Bears Are Noble, sorry, Barnes and Noble, Chapters Indigo.
After you find the book you have read, scroll down past the book’s description and click on ‘Leave A Review’, or ‘Write Your Own Review’.
The Bother part: This takes you to a Customer page where you need to sign in. If you haven’t before used that book retailer you also need to register to do so. This is a bother, I know.
The Fun part: But then comes the fun: smiting away at the Star Ratings. If you are an excitable sort of person, or if you love the book, just keep on smiting. Smite Thrice!!! Smite Fourfold!!!! And, yea even unto Five times!!!!! Disappointingly, the Retailers don’t let us smiteth more than five times, even if you have got into the rhythm of the thing.
Sir Scotland The Brave Smiteth the Keyboard Most Valiantly. Most of the titles you see here are from Odyssey Books, Mawson’s brave publisher
Writing some thoughts about the book: You will see a field where you can say things. Here, if you wish, you can write a line, or many lines, about the book. Then click Submit. Valiantly done! And what happens now?
The power of the reader. Yes, that’s You: The Algorithms that decide the fate of writers, and writer-bears, now record that some one (You) has taken the trouble to review this book. These mysterious Algorithms perk up with interest .They calculate lots of thingygums. The visibility and ranking of Mawson’s book titles (and of any writer you kindly review) now gets bumped up a bit.
Having tasted your awesome power, why stop there? You can copy what you have written and go to any other on-line retailer, to as many as you like, depending on how mighty waxeth your Smiting arm that day, and you can paste in the same review. It all adds up. And up. And UP. And it means lots of people will fall in love with our Frilly, just like you.
Your boon companions: Doubtless there are other bold readers among your boon companions. Share on this very post, so that they too may do these valiant deeds! We writers (and one writer-bear) will never disavow your selfless mission!
I rarely read books these days. Can't keep up with the magazine articles that I get. But knowing the value of reviews, especially for newbie or indie authors, I try to give an honest review of some substance after I read a book. I am registered that most of the sites where I have my books, so it's relatively easy for me to post a review, and then, like you noted, paste the same review on all the sites where it is sold.
One thing that you didn't mention, was that by adding your author name and one book that you have a for sale, someone reading your review may be interested in your books, as well.
A cute format, I believe promoting your book through your bear. Nicely done. But not a review of the book. I prefer the little ones to tell their parents to write those reviews.
With the new and exciting world of Kindles and Print-on-Demand (POD), Independent Publishing is becoming an enticing choice and a viable alternative to traditional publishing.
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With the new and exciting world of Kindles and Print-on-Demand (POD), Independent Publishing is becoming an enticing choice and a viable alternative to traditional publishing.
One thing that you didn't mention, was that by adding your author name and one book that you have a for sale, someone reading your review may be interested in your books, as well.
A cute format, I believe promoting your book through your bear. Nicely done. But not a review of the book. I prefer the little ones to tell their parents to write those reviews.
Ron