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How To Get Your First 50 Book Reviews: A Quick & Easy Guide for Indie Authors

Encouraging people to publish and share reviews of your book is a key book-marketing activity, possibly the single most important of marketing task for a publisher. ALLi's latest Quick & Easy Guidebook (now available in the Member Zone) focusses on how to get your first 50 book reviews.

November 29, 2019
Orna Ross
Business & Planning, Process 3 & 4: Production & Distribution, Process 5 & 6: Marketing & Promotion
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What Happens When Readers Rebel?

A one star review is always difficult to see, but it's also a right of passage. You only have to look at Stephen King or J.K. Rowling's reviews to know that no author gets away with five star reviews forever. The odd one star review is manageable. But what happens when readers rebel? Eliza Green, ALLi author member, looks at the latest Patricia Cornwell novel, Quantum, and the shocking response it received on publication.

October 19, 2019
Eliza Green
Process 3 & 4: Production & Distribution
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Book Marketing: 15 Practical Ways to Get More Book Reviews

Are you worried that book reviews aren't coming in as quickly as you'd like? Read this checklist of 15 things you can do to build up reviews and see if you are missing any tricks! Compiled from the ALLi Hive wisdom.

November 23, 2018
Admin
Process 3 & 4: Production & Distribution
4 Comments

Opinion: My Time in the Amazon Cooler – by an Author of Disappearing Reviews

Here's one reason why it may seem harder to get Amazon reviews these days: the startling removal of reviews and reviewers for no apparent reason, as Kate McCormick's personal story illustrates.

Opinion: Why It Helps If Indie Authors Develop a Thick Skin

Would you like to be able to cope better with negative reviews? Read what Marie McCann's advice about bolstering your resilience by developing "the skin of confidence".

November 27, 2017
E M McCann
Opinion
6 Comments

Opinion: Why It’s Good to Get Bad Reviews

Theo Rogers turns the issue in his book "How to Get Good Reviews on Amazon" on its head and explains why…

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Opinion: Why We Need to Talk About Ethics in Self-publishing

Historical novelist Jane Steen turns the spotlight on ethical issues - an aspect of self-publishing that she deems to be…

Watchdog: Is A Kirkus Review Worth The Price?

ALLi Watchdog Giacomo Giammatteo provides a balanced and objective appraisal of Kirkus, the paid review service used by some indie…

June 13, 2014
Giacomo Giammatteo
Process 3 & 4: Production & Distribution, Watchdog
210 Comments

The Psychology of the Put-Down, or Why Being a Self-Published Writer is a Bit Like Being a Bouncer

As an interesting aside to the continuing debate about hostile reviewers, thriller writer James Sheridan finds similarities between his dual…

Why Indie Authors Need to Understand the Subculture of Amazon Reviewers

ALLi blog editor Debbie Young pitches into the online review debate and introduces a self-published author who has spent five…

September 17, 2013
Admin
Opinion
37 Comments

Indie Authors: Reach New Readers With Indie Book Evaluators (Part 2 of 2)

Indie book evaluation sites assure readers of the quality of self-published books, but how can indie authors get involved? Find…

How Can Indie Authors Get Their Books Reviewed? A Reviewer Replies.

With ten years' experience as a book reviewer and 41 books to her name, children's author Diana Kimpton has strong…