The New Book Review

This blog, #TheNewBookReview, is "new" because it eschews #bookbigotry. It lets readers, reviewers, authors, and publishers expand the exposure of their favorite reviews, FREE. Info for submissions is in the "Send Me Your Fave Book Review" circle icon in the right column below. Find resources to help your career using the mini search engine below. #TheNewBookReview is a multi-award-winning blog including a MastersInEnglish.org recommendation.

SubmitYourFaveBookReviewHere



Hi, it's Lois W. Stern here, your #NewBookReview Associate and Book Review Coordinator, with another idea to help you get more eyeballs focused on your book. We all know that reviews help sell books, so how about sending me your FAVE book review using the form below, and I'll post it for you and make a nifty banner for you to use forever after to highlight your accomplishments.

HOW TO GET THIS FREE MARKETING TOOL 

FOR YOUR BOOK & FOR YOUR REVIEWER:


Did your book get one fabulous review that you wish you could share with the world? Well wish no more. Now you can. Just be sure you have the approval of your reviewer to let us reprint it--credited to them, of course! Then send it to me at tales2Inspire2@gmail.com as part of the submission template below.   Put "My fave book review" in the subject line  and I'll post it for you on TheNewBookReview blog. That’s a big deal ‘cause Carolyn and I join you in networking your review across the web. And I'll create a banner for you to use FREE in your marketing campaigns!


HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR FAVE REVIEW:

To make the submission process easier, first copy and paste the template below to help you gather all your data.  Then I will post it for FREE at: https://thenewbookreview.blogspot.com/


 TEMPLATE for SUBMITTING

(Metadata for Book)
BOOK 
TITLE:
AUTHOR OF BOOK:

GENRE: 

ISBN:

SERIES: (If relevant.)

PAGE COUNT:

PUBLISHER: (Independent or Traditional Business Name)

AMAZON or FAVE LINK to BUY BOOK:

REVIEWER’S NAME AND PERMISSION TO REPRINT: 

THE REVIEW ITSELF: (Including reviewer’s byline, of course!  Use this format: )


By (xxName of Reviewer, Originally for (xxName of Publisher or Media)


FULL REVIEW HERE


ABOUT THE AUTHOR: (Optional Biography/creditline. Please include JPEG IMAGES of author, book cover.) 

 


ABOUT THE REVIEWER: (Optional Biography/creditline, JPEG image. You may include reviewer’s headshot, logo, and contact information. )


NITTY GRITTY BUT IMPORTANT PUBLISHING STUFF

Permission to publish the the review. (Reviewers always own their own reviews unless they were written for pay or under contract which assigns ownership to whomever paid for it.  That situation transfers ownership to whomever paid for the review but there is still an expectation that they be credited for their work and one of the #FrugalBookPromoTips that appear in Carolyn’s How to Get Great Book Reviews Frugally and Ethically clarified Amazon’s policy that even the reviews voluntarily posted there are still the property of the reviewers themselves.

I received permission to publish this review. ___Yes ___ No

Author’s or submitter’s e-mail address, or both

    Do you want reviewer’s e-mail contact information published? ___Yes ___ No

  Photos as requested above. Don’t forget to include a cover image of the book being reviewed.


Did you have trouble choosing which best-of-best reviews for us to publish? If so you can send the others following this template. In fact, you can make a regular habit of sending them. But only one a month, please, ONLY one per submission, and each review should be different.  You can also send the synopsis of the book likely written by the author for their query letters or book proposals. 


LAST CHECK: YOUR SUBMISSION WILL INCLUDE:

Author’s metadata as shown above.

Author’s e-mail address.  (To be published or exclusively for communication between the submitter and The New Book Review volunteer-authors.

Permission to print review. 

Review with reviewer’s byline as shown above.

Images for author and book cover as shown above.

Images for reviewer.  (Optional. As shown above.).


Note #1: If you would like to quote a testimonial or blurb of twenty-five words or under

at the end of your review, please feel free to do so. If you need help editing blurbs,

read Carolyn’s “The Frugal Editor” using the Index to find appropriate entries. 


Note #2: Watch for our new feature--an authormatic free contest 

to select a winning review from among all those with reviews 

published each month--a veritable zodiac of winners!  

Yay! A way for us to extend one more lucky participating author’s exposure a bit farther 

and give them a chance to tout another win! 

And, yes, Carolyn finally talked me into making an award-emblem for winners

 to use in their own campaigns... forever afterward!


Repeat Note #3: We accept more than a single review for any given

book, spaced at 30 days or more apart. Please send each

review separately.


   

 

MORE ABOUT #TheNewBookReview AUTHOR ADVOCATE

Lois W. Stern with her complete selection of anthologies especially designed 
for gifting the right inspiration for the special reader in your life.


Lois W. Stern is an Associate & Review Coordinator for TheNewBookReview. She is also the creator of Tales2Inspire®, an #AuthorsHelpingAuthors project/contest to help aspiring writers on their paths to discovery. And best of all, it’s Free. Lois has now published twelve Tales2Inspire® treasured Tales2Inspire Jewel Collection anthologies and six Tales2Inspire 2-in-1 Diamond Collection anthologies. 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 varied venues. As TheNewBookReview review coordinator, Lois serves as an outreach to help other authors brand themselves as authors of talent. 

 Get a FREE Tales2Inspire book at: www.tales2inspire.com/gifts       

Learn more about my FREE "Authors helping Authors" Contest HERE.


For some lively conversation, join Lois on her Facebook page HERE.




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 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, and publishers who love promoting the works from they catalog. Use the template and directions on this page to submit your  fave review to its exposure, help get the readership it deserves. Find submissions guidelines here: https://www.tinyurl.com/SubmitYourFaveBookReviewHere
           
Reviews, interviews, and articles on this blog are indexed by genre, reviewers’ name, author’snames and more so #TheNewBookReview may be used as a  resourcefor most anyone in the   publishing industry. As an example, writers will find this blog’s search engine in the right-hand column handy for gleaning the names of small publishers if they are viewing the blog from their laptops, iPads, or desktops. (Many smart phones eliminate some of the content n the right columns of this blog.)

               Find Carolyn’s  other writer-related blogs at #SharingwithWriters and              #TheFrugalSmartandTuned-InEditor.

             Carolyn’s  #HowtoDoItFrugally Series for writers include multi-winners:  #TheFrugalbookPromoter, 
#TheFrugalEditor, 
#HowtoGetGreatBkReviews, 
#GreatFirst-ImpressionBookProposals, 
#GreatLast-MinuteEditsforWriters. 

Watch for her newest “Word byWord: A Vocabulary for Success” from Modern History Press in 2026.

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