Christian Speculative Fiction discussion

That's great to hear, Sean. Pity you were joking about the cheques…

Okay, my turn for the rookie question. I see the link for my two reviewers--in this case you, Steve, and M.H. Elrich. But I don't see how to contact you directly (as in email). Am I blind?

No, you're not, because email addresses are not given on GR. What's normally done is to send each reviewer a private message (see my response earlier to C.S. on how to do that), and if needed we can reply by pm with our email addresses.

For me that won't be necessary, as I see I can read The Key of Solomon on KU.

OK great. One down, one to go. I will check the earlier message. Thanks muchly.

I am starting my round one book and both of my reviewers have theirs. This great! Thanks Steve!

Glad you're on the way, Lara!

I have received Keeper of Shadows

I've gotten Kingdom Come

I've receivered Guy's Sudden Mission

And I've got Glen's The Key of Solomon, so we're getting sorted.

I’ve received the books I’m to review and sent mine to reviewers.

I've got my copy of Keeper of Shadows and have sent Courage to Kenyon. I'm just waiting on Cortez's email and I'm good for round 1.

Great!

I have also received courage. I believe I've e-mailed out everyone reviewing my work. If I missed anyone, please let me know.

I have received both of my books.

I've got my first book to read. for the second attach it to an email: david at radiqx dot com

Contacting people through GR is rough. I'm in the midst of packing, getting our house ready to show, and getting a house where we are going purchased. Purchasing online and through a phone is a trip....

Sorry, David, that does sound rough. Hope it starts flowing a little more smoothly for you!

We've been waiting and packing for three years waiting for things to fall together. The Lord is incredible. It's fun watching him put this all together.

It's great to know that He's in control!

Steve, i just wanted to confirm that i have received my book and have started reading.

That's great, Ann. We're making good progress.

I have connected with those reviewing my books as well as those who are providing books for me to review. Onward and upwards!

Okay. Next question. How do I post a review on Amazon.UK? It's something I've never done.

I couldn't post on amazon.co.uk because I haven't bought anything there for 5 years. At least that is what the pop message said when I tried. We are an international group so we are going to have to do the best we can with whatever version of amazon we use.

When I logged into Amazon.UK, I noticed reviews from Amazon.com were listed. Do they just go to both?

C.S. wrote: "When I logged into Amazon.UK, I noticed reviews from Amazon.com were listed. Do they just go to both?"

It looks like it doesn't? I don't think all reviews do that but I have an account on both the .com and the .uk site because I lived in the UK for 4 years. My .com review for your book is showing up on the .uk site even though I couldn't post directly there.

My reviews for the first round (Sorcerer's Bane) are now posted here:

https://www.amazon.com/review/R3NALPZ...

and here:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Lara,
Thanks for the review! :-)

Thanks for posting your links, Lara.

C.S., you were asking about posting on amazon.co.uk—have you actually posted a review there? Do share your experience of that.

Note to everyone about posting reviews on other Amazon sites:

This is supposed to be possible without having to open a new account for each site. See the following link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/....

However, up to now I've been posting reviews both to the US and UK sites without trouble (my 'home' site is the UK one, but I also have an Amazon US account). But just recently I had the same experience as you, Lara: it refused to accept the review because of insufficient purchases. I then tried the solution in the link I just gave—but that didn't work.

I'm wondering if that's because I'm trying it the other way round: from an 'outside' site to Amazon US instead of vice versa. Could you try posting on Amazon UK using that method? It would be good to know if that works.

It will be rather sad if we can all only post to our 'home' Amazon site, though that may be the only option if the workaround has now been blocked. You're right, C.S., that the UK site has a link to reviews of the same book on the US site: but it's not the case that by posting a review on one site it automatically gets duplicated to the other. And the ratings are kept completely separate. Also, there's no link to UK reviews from the US site. So if I post a review on the UK site (which is all I can do at the moment), it will be completely invisible to the US site.

I'm making enquiries in the other review groups to see if anyone has found a solution to this. Meanwhile, do let me know if you can use the method in the above thread to put your review on Amazon UK, starting from your US account.

I posted reviews for Choice of the Mighty: Chronicles of Stephen on Amazon. com. I did check and it appeared on Amazon.UK as well. I also posted on Goodreads. I don't know how to post the links though. You will note, the number of stars is not the same due to the way each site rates stars.

You mean the actual review appeared on Amazon UK? Not just a link to the Amazon US reviews? If so, that's great! Definitely doesn't happen the other way round, sadly.

Has anyone else seen that happen with a review posted first on amazon.com?

To post links to your reviews in this thread:

For Goodreads reviews, find the book on your "My Books" tab, and click on the small View link (to the far right). That takes you to your review. Copy the address at the top of the page, and paste it into your post in this thread.

For Amazon reviews (on either the US or UK site), after adding the review wait till you receive an email thanking you for your review. Towards the bottom of the email you'll see a link See your full review. Click on this, and you'll come to a page showing just this one review (this is better than the book page where it's hidden among many other things). Again, copy the address at the top and paste it into your post in this thread.

I still haven't received the book that I've been assigned.

If I did this right, here is the review of Choice of the Mighty: The Chronicles of Stephen on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and on Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/review/RUU2DOG...

Steve wrote: "You mean the actual review appeared on Amazon UK? Not just a link to the Amazon US reviews? If so, that's great! Definitely doesn't happen the other way round, sadly.

Has anyone else seen that hap..."

When I went into Amazon UK, the review appeared along with other reviews.

My reviews

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

https://www.amazon.com/review/R2AL7Q5...

I'm having a problem on Amazon. Apparently, the only place I've bought anything recently is the .ca site, so it'll only let me leave a review there. Any ideas?

perhaps others may have some thoughts on this, but it looks like amazon has recently tightened their rules on posting reviews. I suggest just going ahead and posting on the .ca site and GoodReads. If anyone has a better idea, go ahead and let us know!

I think you're right, Lara. I've posted queries in two of the main reviewing groups, and there's been no response. I think everyone is digesting the new situation.

It's rather sad for those of you receiving reviews from people like Lauren and me, as we can no longer post on the largest Amazon site. But we can only do what we can do.

If I hear anything from the other review groups, I'll post it here.

I don't understand how my review ended up on Amazon UK. I didn't do anything special to get it there. It's strange. I did, however, log onto Amazon UK with my Amazon.com log on and left it open when I posted the review on Amazon.com. I don't know if that made any difference. I tried to post on UK but kept getting a problem message so I just posted on Amazon.com then went back to check on the UK site and there it was. I don't know how or why.

Cassie wrote: "I still haven't received the book that I've been assigned."

Cassie, sorry about that. I'll follow it up with the author.

My understanding is that all reviews on Amazon.com will populate on the other websites, but not vice versa, because their headquarters are in the USA

That hasn't been true up to now. I have a number of reviews on the .com site that do not appear on my 'home' UK site. There's a link at the bottom of the UK page to reviews on .com—but those reviews are not actually on the UK site, and I assume they don't affect the UK rating average.

But C.S's review did appear on the UK site, so maybe that's now changing. Have to wait and see.

C.S. wrote: "I did, however, log onto Amazon UK with my Amazon.com log on and left it open when I posted the review on Amazon.com. I don't know if that made any difference.."

Maybe it did. But it seems to be going only in one direction, from US to elsewhere. I tried every which way to post a review on amazon.com, but no matter what I tried I was blocked. And my UK review did not reflect on the US site.

My reviews are now up:

https://www.amazon.ca/review/R38FV8HP...

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I have a couple of things I need to buy next week, so I'll hopefully be able to post a review on the UK site after that.

Thanks, Lauren. If you do that, I guess Amazon will have achieved their goal!

Justin wrote: "My reviews

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

https://www.amazon.com/review/R2AL7Q5..."


Thanks for the reviews, Justin!

Guy wrote: "Justin wrote: "My reviews

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

https://www.amazon.com/review/R2AL7Q5..."

Thanks ..."


No problem Guy. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to read your novel!

Here is my review of Invasion by David Bergsland:

https://www.amazon.com/review/R23OLNF...

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

https://glenchen.com/2018/04/18/revie...

Thanks, Glen.