Lately, many authors and publicists have tried to dictate the time a review runs. Some have even suggested that they won’t send books unless reviews post when they want them to. It’s not a bad thing to tell reviewers what period of time you’d like a review to run, but to try to specify a [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Reviewers'
Post My Book Review – NOW!
March 14th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Reviewers
Tags:book bloggers·book marketing·book reviews·market my novel·marketing my novel·novel reviews
Authors Links to Bad Reviews
December 15th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Reviewers
I like Harry Connolly’s paranormal debut, Child of Fire – but not everyone did. Connolly links to reviews of his book at his blog – including the bad ones. Here is Connolly’s latest post on recent reviews. (I particularly like the one about Doritos.) Kudos to the author for taking the bad with good.
Dan Brown’s Worst Sentences
September 19th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Reviewers, Uncategorized
Dan Brown cannot please critics Dan Brown’s a bestseller, but that doesn’t mean he can keep critics happy and joyful about his work. In fact, it seems, many are just not that into his stories. The Telegraph offers up a story with the 20 worst lines from Brown’s books. Some of these are so bad, [...]
Author Responds to Reviewer Bashing
September 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Current Affairs, Reviewers
I blogged recently about scathing comments of relatives toward reviewer Carol Buchanan, who wasn’t fond of John Lacombe’s Winter Games. The situation was used to highlight a trend I’ve noticed with authors like Alice Hoffman who take reviewer bashing to a whole new level. I also reminded authors in How Big Is Your EGO? to [...]
Tags:alice hoffman·bashing book reviewers·carol buchanan·john lacombe·self publishing review
What Newton Learned about Being a Writer
September 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Current Affairs, Reviewers
I found this terrific set of posts from UK author Mark Charan Newton about things he never anticipated before he became a published author. In Some Interesting Things I Never Knew About Being a Writer, one of my favorites is No. 5: There is no such thing as a bad review. Or to paraphrase a [...]
Tags:book reviews·lessons learned in publishing·mark charan newton·Marketing·pr
Review Site Lists
April 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Reviewers
You’re book is out. You want to be interviewed and get reviews during your heavy promotional time. But finding the right blogs and Web sites seems daunting. Market My Novel is taking steps to make the process a little easier. Right now, I’m creating what I hope to become the most comprehensive list of review sites for all genres. A…
Tags:angela wilson·author interview sites·book review sites·market my novel·marketing my novel
The Approach: What You Should NOT Say to Reviewers
December 9th, 2008 · No Comments · Do NOT Do This!, Marketing, Reviewers, The Approach
As a book reviewer for Pop Syndicate – and the virtual book tour host at Book Addict – I am approached by authors every day to review titles. Earlier this year, I was approached hard and fast by an author desperate to have her true crime book reviewed at our site. She found me from a post at another author’s…
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