Are you a published author? Are you out there soliciting peer, expert and reader reviews to post at your website, various other websites, magazines, newsletters and, especially, at Amazon.com?
Here are two blog posts from my archives that focus on getting book reviews. January 13, 2012 and August 21, 2011. If you’re an author or plan to be published soon, you really must know more about book reviews—how to get them, what they can accomplish for you, etc. So I recommend that you read these posts to familiarize yourself with what a book review is and the process of getting them.
In the meantime, I want to share with you a great review that just came in for my latest book, Publish Your Book, Proven Strategies and Resources for the Enterprising Author.
The heading is: A Superb Navigation Guide to Publishing. This review is written by Kathleen Ewing, freelance writer and budding novelist. Here’s what she had to say:
“With Publish Your Book, Patricia Fry provides a road map for publication, then holds our hands and walks us along the various routes to reach the desired destination. She explains what we can expect to experience with each leg of the itinerary–the speed bumps, hairpin turns and alluring dead-end detours inevitable in the publishing industry.
While Ms. Fry has published traditionally, she also has extensive experience with her own publishing company. Yet she makes no recommendations for one path over the other. Nor does she dictate which of the many forks in the road to take. She does explain the benefits and repercussions of following each of those forks so we can make our own informed decisions. Along the way, she liberally sprinkles additional resources, research options and reading materials as well as examples from her own and other authors’ experience.
By the final chapter of Publish Your Book, we feel as if we have completed a full semester in publishing orienteering with a master navigator. Unlike the majority of hopeful authors, we now recognize that the four-lane interstate freeway to authorship is, in fact, a narrow dirt road full of potholes, steep grades and potential ambushes. Thanks to Ms. Fry, we have maps, a compass and a realistic view of the destination. It is up to each of us to select, plot and negotiate our own best route to publication.”
Read this and the other 5-star reviews for Publish Your Book at Amazon here: http://www.amazon.com/review/REE36KOYHG259