Write Your Reviews
Books reviews are very important, especially to Indie
Authors. Most of us rely on people reading our work and leaving reviews. Even
if you are not a writer, you can click the stars, or write in -I loved it - I
enjoyed it - I would recommend this book to my friends. This helps others that are considering
shelling out the few dollars to decide whether or not to buy it.
There are some people that really get in depth with Reviews;
they talk about the characters, the plot and even the skill level of the author.
I personally do not care for these type reviews as I prefer to go into a story
without any preconceived ideas. But I
would never knock anyone for doing so, they are still reviews. I am sure there are lots of people out there that this review
will be the deciding factor if they are going to buy or not.
So how do we get reviews? This is leg work people - or
finger work -because we are only keyboarding. Social media is it. You can
google book reviewers (see a link below) to find people who
read and review for free, all they want is a copy of your work. And their
review will be honest. There are other
sites that you pay to review your book. And then there is connecting with people
through your social media and requesting a review.
If you take this route, I do suggest that you be kind and do review for
review. In fact, I have met and befriended
a couple of authors this way. I also
found out that my own book was in rough shape and needed more work too. So it is a positive avenue to take.
I have come across a couple of
books that were not very good, to say the least. Instead of leaving a terrible one-star
review, I contacted the author privately, and I gave them my humble opinion. Whether
they needed an editor (as I did) or they just needed to scrap that work and try
again. It is better to be told this honestly, in private of course, than
it is to dump it all over Amazon. I
personally was thankful that this happened to me, rather than leaving a mediocre
piece of work out there for the world to read, and then perhaps never sell my
next book biased on the first one.
So any readers, writers, or just passers-by, please always
Review the Books you read! We appreciate it and
love you for it!
Happy Writing Theresa.
http://www.theindieview.com/indie-reviewers/
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