Book Reviews | Self-Publishing Review

5 creative book marketing and promotion tips with fiverr.com

Two nights ago I became addicted to the website www.fiverr.com. If you haven’t heard of fiverr, it’s a website that allows people to offer to do a variety of things for five bucks. There are hundreds of different kinds of things people are willing to do – and at $5 per job, many of them are fantastic bargains. Here are a few of the more interesting things I’ve found and am testing in my book promotion and marketing:

1) Improve your PR-rank. If you have a blog or website, it’s important to have a lot of high quality links […]

Derek Murphy2011-04-15T19:48:05+02:00April 15th, 2011|Categories: Resources|Tags: Book Marketing Advice and Tips, Book Promotion Articles, Book Reviews|

How to get your book reviewed – by avoiding book reviewers.

To have a chance at selling your book on amazon or online, you need reviews. Lots of them. And if you’re like me, you hate pushing all your friends and family to review your work (is it really fair to ask them?) and leave comments. So most authors do this:

1) Search online for book reviews, indie book reviewers, self-published book reviews, how to get book reviews, etc.

2) Email or contact those reviewers asking them to take a look at their books and comment.

Here’s why that doesn’t work. First of all – those few sites that offer […]

Derek Murphy2013-05-27T15:49:08+02:00April 3rd, 2011|Categories: Features, Lead Story, Resources|Tags: Book Marketing Advice and Tips, Book Promotion Articles, Book Reviews|

Review: Lightworker: The Unique Souls Who Have Come to Heal the Planet

I feel I must preface this review by offering full disclosure: Until now, I have never reviewed a work of non-fiction, nor a work which falls into the Spiritual or Self-Help genres. Naturally, what follows in this review is entirely my opinion, and I’ll do my best to cover what I think are its high and low points.

As I mentioned before, Lightworker by Sahvanna Arienta is what you would consider a Spiritual book, one written to help others find an understanding of their place in the world. The book revolves around a number of statements about the balance […]

Todd Keisling2014-06-19T12:25:45+02:00March 9th, 2011|Categories: Book Reviews, Features|Tags: Book Reviews, Self-Help Book Reviews|

The Dark Side of Reviews

In the past, I’ve blogged my thoughts about the review process, and I’m at it again. It’s the wonderful experience when publishing a book. Every author, whether self-published or traditional, has a star-filled future from one to five.

After being in the public eye since 2008, I’ve come to one conclusion. The entire review process is so – what’s the word I want to use here – LAME! Why lame? Because frankly, folks, it’s a broken process limping along that has little value, if any, these days.

Why do I say that? Recently, I’ve discovered a very disturbing trend […]

Vicki Hopkins2011-10-08T14:00:16+02:00March 2nd, 2011|Categories: Features, Member Blog|Tags: Amazon News and Tips, Book Reviews, Goodreads Articles|

Thoughts on Validation and Success

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. — T.S. Eliot

Meh! What’s failed? That’s what I want to know. If you are writing and you love what you write and you love the process, then you are not a failed writer. A failed writer to me is the writer who gives up their dream. Self-published writers, if anything, can be said to have zealously embraced the dream.

My idea of success is exactly MY IDEA, and it’s not how many books I sell in a week or a day or a year or in a lifetime or […]

Cheryl Anne Gardner2011-10-08T18:02:30+02:00July 29th, 2010|Categories: Resources|Tags: Book Reviews|

A Review of Serial Novels Online

(Originally posted at The Podler Review of Books)

There is a quiet revolution happening on the Internet; serialized fiction seems to have exploded in the last few years. You can explore the phenomenon at Webfiction Guide and Muse’s Success. There you will find some interesting stuff. And a few gems.

Here are some serials that have caught my interest.

Mr. Abernathy I love the presentation. The only unfortunate thing is the .pdf format–not everyone has a high-speed connection.