Comments on: Why Solicit for Book Reviews? http://www.kreelanwarrior.com/2009/02/why-solicit-for-book-reviews/ Tales and Musings Tue, 15 Jun 2010 01:07:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Steve Van Slyke http://www.kreelanwarrior.com/2009/02/why-solicit-for-book-reviews/#comment-227 Steve Van Slyke Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:38:41 +0000 http://www.kreelanwarrior.com/?p=243#comment-227 Michael, a newbie catching up on your site. Very helpful, thanks. Your comments about having the integrity not to trade reviews with other authors or have friends or family submit essentially "pnony" reviews was especially welcome. I have been resisting this temptation and thanks to you I will continue. Fortunately I have been getting good, honest reviews thus far. When I have received unsolicited positive feedback from a reader I have not been averse to asking them if they wouldn't mind sharing their opinion on Amazon and some have. I also appreciate your comments and source list regarding digital reviewers. It is disheartening to learn too late that perhaps I should have held off publishing my book for three or four months so that I could have mailed out proof copies to some of the big reviewers, but at least I can still approach the digitals as well as magazines in my target market. BTW, my new novel is "Sex, Lies & Spinnakers" Michael, a newbie catching up on your site. Very helpful, thanks. Your comments about having the integrity not to trade reviews with other authors or have friends or family submit essentially “pnony” reviews was especially welcome. I have been resisting this temptation and thanks to you I will continue. Fortunately I have been getting good, honest reviews thus far. When I have received unsolicited positive feedback from a reader I have not been averse to asking them if they wouldn’t mind sharing their opinion on Amazon and some have.

I also appreciate your comments and source list regarding digital reviewers. It is disheartening to learn too late that perhaps I should have held off publishing my book for three or four months so that I could have mailed out proof copies to some of the big reviewers, but at least I can still approach the digitals as well as magazines in my target market.

BTW, my new novel is “Sex, Lies & Spinnakers”

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