Cate Baum | Self-Publishing Review

Five Factors For A Great Book Cover

Why is it some book covers pop while others are astoundingly wrong? As a self-publishing author it’s essential to get it right. Here are five factors to consider when choosing a design.

Example of terrible book cover 1. Does your cover represent the contents of your book?

Sometimes a cover cannot be judged by the book. Take a look at this edition of Huckleberry Finn for example – does an urn-carrying nude really tell us the story of two boys on an adventure? Obviously not. You may know the image you choose is pertinent because something happens in the book, but does your title reflect […]

Cate Baum2020-02-21T03:21:07+02:00July 2nd, 2014|Categories: Features|Tags: Book Cover Design Tips|

SPR Launches Jump Start Book Promo Package

Self-Publishing Review has today released a new book review package, SPR Jump Start, aimed at those with a budget in mind who need to get their book seen fast.

The Jump Start review package costs $59, a fraction of the cost of many professional review services on the market today.

How we do it:

Mini Review We review your book at breakneck speed (two-week turnaround), and provide a professional 200-word review shared on our New Releases Page (accessible from the Home Page)
Bookshelf We will promote your book on our Bookshelf , displaying your book synopsis, overview and book cover

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Cate Baum2014-07-03T14:56:56+02:00July 1st, 2014|Categories: News|

112 Hours by Rian Hughes

The fifteenth volume of this font guru’s fascinating obsession turns this time to numbers. Rian Hughes, a British designer based at Device Fonts, manages to make typography massively interesting by putting together a beautiful, artful layout that holds the eye and attention.

Rian studied at the LCP in London before briefly working for an advertising agency, i-D magazine, Smash Hits magazine and a series of record sleeve design companies. Having cut his teeth drawing comics for Paul Gravett’s seminal alternative press comic magazine “Escape”, for Belgium’s Magic Strip he co-wrote and drew the graphic novel “The Science Service”, published in […]

Cate Baum2020-02-20T12:47:24+02:00July 1st, 2014|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Non-Fiction Book Reviews|

Antarctica 2014 by Karen Johns

Antartica 2014

This beautiful book by traveler Karen Johns documents her trip to Antarctica in 2014. Laden with exquisite photos, we feel we are with her on her journey through a reflective blue-ice paradise. Of course, the fluffy penguins will enchant everyone, but the ship photos cutting through still waters flanked by mountains and icebergs are amazing, along with timeless shots of whales and seals. This book will make anyone want to go visit.

Johns writes,

We travelled through one of the most beautiful wilderness places on earth, with snow, ice rock and teeming with amazing wildlife. Vast mountain ranges of emptiness

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Cate Baum2014-07-01T12:38:47+02:00July 1st, 2014|Categories: New Releases|

Polanski’s Ghosts by Burkhard von Harder

In March 2009 Roman Polanski shot “THE GHOSTWRITER” on the Isle of Sylt. The photographs in this book show the Listland Movie Set, left behind when the job was done – one still can sense the presence of Pierce Brosnan, Ewan McGregor and Eli Wallach.

During the shooting of this film, Polanski was again called to trial in the US for a crime he committed years before – that of the rape of an underage girl. That will surely pique interest for this book, and its title.

The photos are a fascinating look at this abandoned film set, and a […]

Cate Baum2014-07-01T12:25:14+02:00July 1st, 2014|Categories: New Releases|

SPR Partners With BookBaby’s BookPromo

BookPromo - SPR

SPR is proud to today announce a partnership with BookBaby!

BookPromo, a set of promo tools that come free with every BookBaby publishing package, today announced the expansion of “BookPromo to be an even more powerful promotional tool”, reaching thousands of targeted readers with incredibly affordable advertising.

BookBaby is the sister site of CDBaby.

BookBaby offers you the largest eBook distribution network, including Amazon, Apple, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, and many other popular retailers in over 170 countries around the globe.

BookPromo offers every BookBaby author a 10-question interview in partnership with Self-Publishing Review, guaranteed to be seen […]

Cate Baum2014-06-26T16:46:23+02:00June 26th, 2014|Categories: News|

Review: Future Prometheus II by J.M. Erickson

FP2-WEB “Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.” Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, says the epigraph for J.M. Erickson’s novel Future Prometheus II, explaining J.M. Erickson’s trilogy title, Future Prometheus.

In Future Prometheus II , we catch up with black ops Lt. Jose Melendez and his team. After attempting a cryogenic experiment to save mankind that was meant to last for just a few […]

Cate Baum2018-03-16T09:56:02+02:00June 24th, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Apocalyptic Fiction Book Reviews, Science Fiction Book Reviews|

Interview With Author Keith Soares

Interview with Keith Soares, author of The Oasis of Filth series, The Fingers of the Colossus, and more.

Keith Soares Interview

Tell us something about your book. The basics: what’s it about?

My first book series is called The Oasis of Filth. There are three parts: The Oasis of Filth, The Hopeless Pastures, and From Blood Reborn, available separately or in one volume called The Complete Series. All three individual parts have been separately reviewed by SPR.