THE Group for Authors! discussion

...OTHER THAN YOUR OWN...which blog would you choose?

Publishers Weekly News letter...

Heck, why settle for a blog? Why not brand a review of your book into the hippocampus of every person in the world so your review will be their first thought upon waking up, and their last horrible thought before dreaming- ABOUT YOUR BOOK.

MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA---

*cough* *drinks water*

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

I could be happy with a review on Stephen King's blog. That'd do nicely.

I think Bill O'Reilly's blog might garner some attention!

I'd love to have a review on SFFWorld's blog. They rock my socks! ;)

But it would be nice to be reviewed on Big Al's Books and Pals.

Jessica wrote: "I'd love to have a review on SFFWorld's blog. They rock my socks! ;)

But it would be nice to be reviewed on Big Al's Books and Pals."

Jessica, reach out and contact them. You never know what could happen, and it does not hurt to try. :)

Mary, I did. They say they may review me but can't promise anything. :)

I'd like to be reviewed by Kirkus Book Reviews without having to pay the indie author fee!

I'd love to get reviewed on Totally Booked's blog. I sent them a message on GR with a polite request to consider my upcoming novel, but got no reply. Maybe I need to go through their site instead.

Unless they specifically said to go through their blog, I wouldn't contact them again. There are a lot of books coming out this summer, and I imagine that they are very busy.

Jessica wrote: "Mary, I did. They say they may review me but can't promise anything. :)"

Good for you! I am glad that you contacted them. I hope that they give you a review! (fingers crossed for you!)

I'd settle for a review on Neil Gaiman's tumblr.

Hello, I am a new author and don't know my way around the block, so I am trying to learn everything I can about promoting my book. I started a blog on Goodreads, and I have a current professional reviewer reading my book at forums.online.bookclub.org, after which I hope to have a posting of the review. I have been scouting which avenues to take with regard to blogging.
Thanks for your postings, which helps me learn what to consider next.

Mary wrote:

Good for you! I am glad that you contacted them. I hope that they give you a review! (fingers crossed fo..."

Thank you, Mary! I'm going to wait and hope ;)

Anais Nin's Blog, or perhaps Mark Twain's or Albert Einstein's . . . I think Marilyn would have done nicely too, but not Elvis.

OK, you know what? I'll bite. The Oatmeal. I'd love to see him lampoon me and my characters with his amazing art.

Who is 'The Oatmeal' Nenia?

Look, and be amazed: http://theoatmeal.com/

Thank you! (bookmarks for future perusal later on) :)

You're welcome. :D

I still say that the mass hippocampal branding is my first choice, though. I am, after all, an aspiring evil genius.

LOL Of course to be an evil genius needs work!

I have now visited the Oatmeal and it is love. The only problem will be not spending the next 24 hours reading the blog!

This is true. Perhaps I should just be an evil Couch Potato. All I would have to do is sit on the sofa and give Jersey Shore viewer ratings. >:D

It seriously is, right? I'm so addicted to that site.

I am a fan of the Oatmeal now. And with you on the evil Couch Potato idea.

Have never seen Jersey Shore though - maybe it's not on in the UK?

Two Spuds up . . . do I detect a ripple effect?

We're going to get mashed!

Ahhh, bingo! Mashable - is that a good one!

Aha!

Mind you, I've never been to Mashable. What with them and Oatmeal...

I feel a bit peckish!

I was just kidding. Mashable is mostly a popular technie kind of blog. I'm thinking the best place to have my book favorably reviewed would be on the blog, "Brain Pickings".

Have we gone a tiny bit astray?

I think you may be right, Jon.

We has topic drift ;)

Technically not a blog, but Justin Bieber's Twitter account would probably result in a sales spike if you somehow got it there.