Don't Just Dream About Getting More Book Reviews - Here's a Way to Actually Get Them

I had a dream. I knew traditional publishers were turning down the works of talented authors, so I started my Tales2Inspire® project to help give them the recognition I felt they deserved. And Tales2Inspire® has succeeded beyond my wildest expectations.

I have another dream: I know how hard it has become for authors to get reviews for their books, so I volunteered to help Carolyn Howard-Johnson with a second Authors Helping Authors project. That’s how I became TheNewBookReview Book Review Acquisition Coordinator. 

We now have over 150 books listed for authors seeking reviews, a wonderful outpouring of requests, but sadly only a few reviewer offers to date. Yet I still have that dream that we can build a NewBookReview community of Authors Helping Authors. I just need a little help from each of you to make this happen.

Can I count on you to become one of my Authors Helping Authors, and join in this effort? 

And by the way, we offer some really neat thank you payoffs for our reviewers:

 

A personalized banner, like the one at the top of this screen, with your book cover and headshot, for you to use for all your marketing endeavors

A Gold Star Reviewer Badge named for you on our genre chart, right next to the book you reviewed

It really isn’t hard to become a gold star reviewer if you just follow the steps below. 

• Go to: http://bit.ly/FreeBookstoReadandReview
• Click on a genre of interest to you.
• Select a book you would like to read and review.
• Contact that author to request their book and follow through by writing a review within 30 days. 

NOTE: (All the information is posted on each genre chart: book title and description, author’s name and email address, page count, interest level and more. Just follow the chart from left to right.)

Yes, I have a dream, that we can help one another get more reviews, and wouldn’t it be awesome if one of our authors contacts you to review your book!

Really helpful links:

• How to help promote yourself while crafting your review

https://thenewbookreview.blogspot.com/2021/11/how-to-get-freebooks-to-read-and-review.html

• Gifts for our NewBookReview reviewers 

https://thenewbookreview.blogspot.com/2021/11/blog-post.html

• Don’t get caught in The Little Red Hen syndrome

https://thenewbookreview.blogspot.com/2022/01/books-book-reviews-and-hens-teeth.html

Lois is a multi award winning author whose work has been featured in the New York Times, Newsday, Long Island Press, Barnard Magazine, on Local Access TV and in live presentations in many varied venues. She has now published twelve Tales2Inspire® treasured anthologies of her contest winners' stories. As TheNewBookReview review coordinator, Lois serves as an outreach to help authors on their paths to discovery. Click here for an index of some of her most popular articles, with live links for easy access. (Just look for the image at the top of the page so, You don’t have to go fishing.)

Lois created her Tales2Inspire® ‘Authors Helping Authors’ project in 2012, helping hundreds of talented newbies and seasoned authors alike enhance their visibility. 

Click here to learn more about entering her annual no fee Tales2Inspire contest. That’s right, it’s free!

What emerges from these annual contests are highly professional anthologies of inspirational memoirs. Fans of Chicken Soup for the Soul are particularly enamored of Tales2Inspire® books, because aside from being expertly crafted, inspirational memoirs, they are filled with original photos to further enhance the power of each story. Lois invites interested readers to get a FREE Tales2Inspire® sampler book at: www.tales2inspire.com/gifts and visit Lois at these Media Marketing sites: 

Website: https://www.tales2Inspire.com

 

More About #TheNewBookReview Blog The New Book Review is blogged by Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of the multi award-winning HowToDoItFrugally series of books for writers. Authors, readers, publishers, and reviewers may republish their favorite reviews of books they want to share with others. That includes authors who want to share their favorite reviews, reviewers who'd like to see their reviews get more exposure, and readers who want to shout out praise of books they've read and love. Please see submission guidelines in a tab at the top of this blog's home page or go directly to the submission guidelines at http://bit.ly/ThePlacetoRecycleBookReviews or to the guideline tab at the top of the home page of this blog. Authors and publishers who do not yet have reviews or want more may use Lois W. Stern's "Authors Helping Authors" service for requesting reviews. Find her guidelines in a tab at the top of the home page, too. Carolyn Wilhelm is our IT expert, an award-winning author, a veteran educator and also contributes reviews and posts on other topics related to books. Reviews, interviews, and articles on this blog are indexed by genre, reviewers' names, and review sites so #TheNewBookReview may be used as a resource for most anyone in the publishing industry. As an example, writers will find this blog's search engine handy for gleaning the names of small publishers. Find other writer-related blogs at Sharing with Writers and The Frugal, Smart and Tuned-In Editor. #TheFrugalbookPromoter, #CarolynHowardJohnson, #TheNewBookReview, #TheFrugalEditor, #SharingwithWriters, #reading #BookReviews #GreatBkReviews #BookMarketing