GOOD REVIEWS discussion

Would love to exchange books/swap reviews/ with other self published authors. A new year starts and it's always hard to get enough reviews on Amazon for your project. 100 sales and 1 review . . . ughhh . . buzz me here or email ([email protected]) if your interested.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00F...

I would love to swap reviews. My book Ancient Undead: A Rick Relic Adventure will be free on amazon Jan. 18-22 :)

C.F. wrote: "Would love to exchange books/swap reviews/ with other self published authors. A new year starts and it's always hard to get enough reviews on Amazon for your project. 100 sales and 1 review . . ...."

100 sales is an ok start to the new year! I'm sorry I can't do a review swap, I took a quick look at the sample pages and it's just not my kind of story. Maybe a little research on modern guns might be good, perhaps release the safety rather than cock the hammer? It's easy to change something and relist on kindle.
Good luck and I hope you get more reviews.

I'm interst in swapping reviews, I have eight books out. They are action adventures and fun reads. My website is www.geraldjkubickibook.com. If you want, just drop me a note there with you email address.

I would love to swap reviews! My debut novel, Mystic, is a YA historical fantasy. It will be on sale for $0.99 tomorrow Jan 30 through Feb 4th. If you're interested and purchase mine for review, I will do the same for you.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HLX5AOA

Review swaps create a conflict of interest, best to avoid them.

Gobs of lovely reviewers out there who don't insist on swaps. Try these lists instead:

Reviewer List: http://www.stepbystepselfpublishing.n...
Reviewer List: http://bookbloggerdirectory.wordpress...
Reviewer List: http://www.theindieview.com/indie-rev...
Reviewer List: http://indiebookreviewer.wordpress.co...

These all seem to be for and about self-publishing. I'm not self-published, so are there other web sites for book reviews by traditionally published books?

Mikki, most of the reviewers listed are friendly to traditionally published books too. Indie includes self-published, but also any publisher that isn't the "big six". But while these lists were made to help Indie authors, the blogs they link to are all independent.

You may want to coordinated with your publisher and see if they sent out any review copies for you. Large and medium volume publishers may use sites like NetGalley, which aren't cost effective for smaller publishers.

Ideally you send out review copies, 3-4 month before publication, but live and learn.

Iscah, someone told me yesterday that it is now the "big five." That one more publishing company got bought up by one of the others.
Can anyone confirm this?

Sherrie, I think you're correct. I forget who merged with who. There are some midsized publishers like Tor who I'd still consider traditional publishers but aren't the biggest ones.

There's a lost of small publishers popping up right now and small to midsized ones that are 20-30 years old, so there's some overlap between traditional and Indie.

Random House bought out Penguin...it is now Penguin Random House. And Penguin in turn has acquired Author Solutions, the scummiest of all the scummy vanity publishers, and all of Author Solutions' equally scummy subsideries, like Author House, Xlibris, and several others. I for one will never try to sell one of my books to Penguin Random House...they have done nothing to clean up these horrible vanity presses, and obviously don't intend to. In my opinion, this major publisher is now no better than the scum bag vanity presses it runs.