This is your how-to page for authors to get
ethical, free reviews for their book(s).
Lois W. Stern, author advocate, former educator, and frequent
contributor to this blog, offers readers of #TheNewBookReview who are authors a
path to getting free and ethical reviews for their books. No kidding! Lois explains how to do it below and you'll learn more about her other "Authors Helping Authors" projects in her biography below those guidelines. Please feel free to
let those in the publishing industry know about this service.
Welcome!
Carolyn Howard-Johnson
Your #TheNewBookReview blogger
PS: If you are here to post a review you have written for a book you have read or to post a review that a reviewer has written about your book, you are in the wrong place. Go to http://bit.ly/ThePlacetoRecycleBookReviews. It's in a tab at the top of the home page of this blog, too.
Get your review request (it's like a mini query for reviews!) listed here on this The New Book Review blog at no charge. Use the guide below to list all necessary information and send Lois the information about one of the books you have written. Once received, she will add your information to her posts that list books available for review consideration. Send your request to Lois at tales2Inspire@optimum.net with REVIEW WANTED in the subject line.
Note: Please be sure the book you want to offer for review is already available for sale at Amazon.com or another online site where books are sold.
Warning: If you are here to have your book seen by prospective readers and reviewers on Lois W. Stern's free review-getting list, you are in the right place. If you already have a fave review ready to be posted or a reader who who would like to write one for #TheNewBookReview, go to
http://bit.ly/ThePlacetoRecycleBookReviews
or find that link at the top of this blog's home page.
All of this blog's services are free.
TITLE OF BOOK:
SUBTITLE OF BOOK (if any):
GENRE:
AUTHOR:
AMAZON OR OTHER ONLINE BOOKSTORE URL:
E-MAIL: Contact information for person submitting (be it author, reviewer, reader reviewer, or publisher.)
* BOOK FORMAT(S) YOU ARE OFFERING FOR REVIEW:
Authors should send their book directly to the reviewer along with any promotional material they wish to include.
Disclaimer: In the spirit of Authors Helping Authors, Lois is happy to provide her review-getting service to her fellow authors at no cost, but due to conflict of interest concerns, she does not review the books listed on her review-request page herself. Nor can she guarantee that your listing will attract a reviewer.
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Author or Publisher Responsibilities
Authors or publishers must be willing to send a book (in whatever format(s) you list in your application as outlined above as well as promotional materials to any volunteer reviewer who contacts you. Authors are more likely to find new reader-reviewers for their books if they promote (network) the link on the web--everywhere from website to blog to social media as Twitter and Facebook!
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Reviewer Responsibilities
Reviewer info:
- Commit to writing a review within 30 days of receipt of book.
- Post review on any online review site or blog including Amazon.
- Give the author permission to post his/her/their review wherever they wish including TheNewBookReview blog.
- Email the URL where your review is posted to Lois at tales2Inspire@opitimum.net.
- If you feel this book deserves fewer than 4 stars, decline to review it.
- Tips for helping reviewers save time while writing honest, ethical reviews. Click here.
- The book you receive is yours to keep.
MORE ABOUT YOUR REVIEW COORDINATOR
A multi-award-winning author, Lois's work has been featured in
The New York Times, Newsday, and Long Island Press, on Local Access TV, and in live presentations in a multitude of venues. She has now published
ten Tales2Inspire® books of her contest winners'
stories. Fans of Chicken Soup for the Soul are particularly enamored of
Tales2Inspire® books because aside from their inspirational themes, they are filled with
original photos to enhance the power of each story. Lois invites interested readers to get a free Tales2Inspire®
sampler book click here.
To learn more about entering the next Tales2Inspire® contest, click here.
