Posts tagged book reviews
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The Feline Method for Capturing Five-Star Reviews
Ah, reader reviews. The catnip of book marketing. We know we need them, crave them even, but how do we get readers to lavish praise on our precious tomes? I call it the Feline Method. Now before you picture coaxing reviews out of readers with laser pointers and feather toys, let me explain. Cats, as we know, are masters of getting what they want. A well-timed meow, an irresistible head bump, some strategic purring - ...
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Why You Need to Incentivize Book Reviews
Becoming a successful author requires a difficult combination of writing skill, general resilience, good fortune, and calculated marketing. That last requirement is often tricky, even for ambitious authors, because it isn’t easy to get that deeply involved in the commercialization of something that means so much to you personally. But something has to give, and if you want your books to be widely read, you need to be...