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Reviews
Reviewers. Who are they and how do they help in selling your book?
Who are they?
Book reviewers are a little like editors and a little like book readers. They tell the public what they like and don’t like about your book, may spell out some grammar problems, but usually take the approach of giving you as positive a review as possible - even if they don’t particularly like your book.
You will, however, come up against reviewers who take the negative approach, so expect to get reviews not to your liking. Read the review and then move on. Don't contact the reviewer and ask a bunch of questions about why he/she wrote such a negative review. Don’t write something scathing back, or feel that you must somehow get their review taken off of Amazon. Keep moving forward. There have been a few times when I've wondered if the reviewer actually read the book I'd written, and I decided to look to the reviewers who liked my book and to my heart for the truth.
Where do you look?
When looking for a book reviewer, (though reviewers span the newspaper and magazine worlds), where you’re really going to gain interest is through blog reviewers. Though the first two sources will get the word out, more and more readers are turning to the internet for answers to the question, “What is the next book I should read?”
Why not be where the readers are?
For my first book, there were few blog reviewers out there, but things have changed. When I began searching online for reviewers for my second book, “Conquering Your Goliaths: A Parable of the Five Stones,” I was pleasantly surprised at the growth of book bloggers.
Not only were there multiple sites available, but sites that gave me a list of reviewers, the types of books reviewed, where the reviews were posted, how long the reviewer had been blogging and what form of book they accepted (PDF, paperback only; I’ll discuss this more in detail later). Time was saved in searching the internet for individual reviewers who may or may not have been interested in my book.
Here are seven ideas to get you started:
1. Book Reviewer Yellow Pages provides a listing of reviewers from A to Z. Not only can you find great reviewers here, but you can sign up for an interview (bookrevieweryellowpages.com/book-reviewer-list.html). You can also be a reviewer on this site; get listed every March.
2. YA Book Blog Directory is also an A to Z listing for YA authors wanting to find reviewers for their book, but I have found that some of these reviewers also review adult books (yabookblogdirectory.blogspot.com/p/ya-book-blogger-list.html).
3. The Indie View (theindieview.com/indie-reviewers) offers an updated monthly list of new book reviewers.
4. Book Review Depo is a closed group on Facebook offering a place for authors to get the word out that they need reviewers for their book. Review Seekers is also a closed group on Facebook that pretty much does the same thing.
5. Book Blog Directory (http://bookbloggerdirectory.wordpress.com/) lists blogs that review your particular genre, whether that genre is fiction, non-fiction religious, or YA.
6. Another reviewer list can be found at Tweet Your Books (tweetyourbooks.com/) Click on the Free Reviews tab.
7. The Book Blogger List (bookbloggerlist.com) are book bloggers interested in reviewing books.
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