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Book Review & Contest Insights from Real Reviews and Submissions

What separates great books from the rest? Below are articles with insights from real reviews and contest submissions—what works, what doesn’t, and how to improve your book. You’ll also find a wide range of articles covering writing, publishing, marketing, and more. Each article has a Comments section so you can read advice from other authors and leave your own.

Why Some Books Win Awards (And Most Don’t) — Insights From Real Contest Submissions New!

What separates award-winning books from the rest? After evaluating contest submissions across a wide range of genres, certain patterns become clear. Some books consistently rise to the top. Others, even with strong ideas and clear effort behind them, fall short. The difference is rarely dramatic—it...

What We’ve Learned From Reviewing Hundreds of Thousands of Books (And Why Most Don’t Stand Out) New!

After reviewing and evaluating books across thousands of submissions over the past two decades, certain patterns become impossible to ignore. Some books immediately stand out to reviewers. Others—even well-intentioned ones—fade into the middle or fall short. The difference is rarely luck. It comes down to...

What's in a Title?

What’s in a title? Plenty, it seems. “A good title is the title of a successful book,” so said American novelist and screenwriter, Raymond Chandler. The title of a book has the power to make a reader stop and give the book more than a passing glance. A...

Indie Publishing: Navigating Advertising Everest

The indie writer has many dilemmas he or she must contend with like trying to visualize the perfect cover and then bringing that cover to fruition, making sure that his or her manuscript is properly edited and then formatted, as well as a myriad of...

The Novella: An Indie Author's Valuable Marketing Tool

The word “novella” has a lilting quality to it and rolls nicely off the tongue, don’t you think? Regardless of the reaction the word invokes, make no mistake. The novella is a valuable marketing tool for today’s indie author “thinking outside the box”. The word “novella”...

How to Get Your Story Noticed

As you may remember in my other article, How to Get Your Story Heard, we touched on five compelling yet easy steps that you can take to get your story heard. In this article, you will learn some best practices on how to get your...

LinkedIn Marketing For New Authors

One of the best ways to grow as an author is through connecting and networking with fellow authors, publishers, and readers. Growing your presence in the writing community enables you to interact with your peers and industry experts and learn from them. This is what...

How To Get Honest Book Reviews

How To Get Honest Book Reviews Readers trust book reviews because they are generally written by ordinary readers like themselves. The belief is that they are unbiased. They trust the opinion of fellow readers over and above any other opinion. Getting as many people as possible...

Marketing Essentials and Building Your Brand – Things Every Author Should Know

There are some marketing essentials that are too important for authors to ignore! If any author wants to build their brand and grab the attention of their audience, there are some things that authors need to do. Since this is the age of social media and...

A Review of Book Reviewer Yellow Pages

Book Reviewer Yellow Pages is a website that is designed to provide assistance to both book reviewers and authors looking to get reviews. The site is organized into seven main pages: home, shop, mailing list, blog, book reviewer list, blog tour hosts, and contact. Home: F...

How to Find the Best Blog for Your Book

You might be wondering why many authors get their books reviewed on blogs instead of just sticking with reviews on popular books sites like Amazon and Goodreads. The simple answer is those authors do not wish to limit themselves to only two avenues of promoting...

For The Entrepreneur

The most successful marketing venture for me was a website. Because I had so many books to focus on and it was so time-consuming to promote each one individually, I decided to start a website showcasing them. I then began to invite other authors to...