Reviews and Comments
Reviews are a must! No one wants to buy something if no one else is talking about it. Reviews are a great way to get other people to help sell your book, simply because if they say they loved it, a buyer is more apt to buy it.
The following is a list of places to submit reviews. You need to reach out to everyone you can—family, friends, coworkers, etc.—who have read your book, and get them to spend the 15 minutes needed to review your book on multiple places (make sure they understand how to copy and paste—it speeds it up.)
Please make sure that people space this out—we don’t want five reviews to hit on the same day!
The legal release statement that follows assures that you (and BQB) has permission to use the review. It’s a good idea to get your reviewers to sign this little blurb.
Legal Release Statement
I, _________________________ give ___________________________ and their publisher, my permission to copy, exhibit, publish, or distribute my review of the book _______________________ in any way they see fit to help publicize the book.
Written Review for You
Have them write a review they send to you via email. You can then copy it and paste it on your website, blog, BQB site, flyers, poster boards, etc.
Once they have written this review, make sure they know they can just copy and paste it on the following sites. You might need to search by author name and title.
Amazon.com (2 minutes)
Amazon has a place to review your book. The reviewer must have an Amazon login (free to create) AND have purchased something on Amazon.com (99c will suffice—so buy a 99c book!).
Have them find your book by searching for it and then clicking on the title. At the top of the page, they will see 5 stars and review. Click here. It then will ask you to CREATE REVIEW. Simply click the boxes, write a title, paste the review, and hit the button on the bottom of the page.
To speed up the process send an email with the link to the review page for them!
Barnes and Noble (2 minutes)
You must have a Barnes and Noble Account (free to create). However, reviewers aren’t required to have bought something and can leave the review anonymous.
Find the book, click on the title, and hit the review button.
To speed up the process, send an email with the link to the review page for them!
Books-A-Million (2 Minutes)
You must have a Books-A-Million account (free to create). However, reviewers aren’t required to have bought something.
Search for the book and then click on the title. They use the tab system: next to overview is CUSTOMER REVIEWS. Click the customer review tab and enter the review.
To speed up the process send an email with the link to the review page for them!
Submit Book Reviews (Always Sign your Book!)
Readers Favorite
BQB submits every book they publish to Readers Favorite for a review. Once the book is reviewed by Readers Favorite, if it receives 4 or 5 stars, the review is automatically posted to Amazon and Barnes and Noble as well as the Readers Favorite website. The review link is also sent to BQB to forward to the author so that you can put your profile on the Readers Favorite site along with your review. Also make sure your family and friends go on the Readers Favorite review site to put comments in the comment box.
http://sanfranciscobookreview.com/submission-guidelines/
This link gives you information about the sponsored review program where you can pay money to have your book reviewed.
Google Plus
Google Plus is Google’s new social media and Facebook-like initiative. Where it will come into play for helping is the actual Google +1 button. As people make their profiles, they can click the +1 button and then it will alert their friends and family that they are connected to “try” the product that they have +1’d.
Click here to go back to the BQB Authors Portal.