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Ive heard the advice of the best marketing you can do is to write the next book. Then i hear people like our own Moses Siregar III (whose new book just released), say how he spent months marketing (and was successful). Im trying to do both, write book two and market, and one of my marketing tasks is to find new sites to submit my review request to.

Wouldnt it save us time to have collaborative tools?

Here are some ideas:

1. Hashtag such as #indiereviewSF - #indiereview exists but sf could help ao we dont have to wade through romance and thriller focused sites.

2. A thread in this folder linking Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ groups welcome to author requests for reviews (like ours, but admittedly with better results). Many want you to join and participate, though.

3. Similar thread, but with links to websites and a description of their review policy and email (if the email is public info).

4. Opportunities for teaming up, from blog posts or facebook events, where we can share freebies.

Thoughts?

The problem is, authors want reviews, but readers are less concerned. If anyone advertises that they do reviews, they get swamped, and you can only review so many. I assure you, I have this problem too, and I know of no easy solution.

That is very true. I also know it costs a fair amount to pay for all the books you want to read, so some do advertise that they'll accept review copies. I'm not saying the solution is easy, but it doesn't have to be so hard that all of us spend hours upon hours looking for review sites to at least submit to. Since those submissions return such a poor ratio of reviews per email, let's help the authors by making it take less time to get those emails out. That's all I'm saying.

All I m saying is I don't know how to get around this problem, but if anyone does, please let me know :-)

The problem of readers being less concerned about posting reviews? Yeah, that is a big one. Hopefully more and more readers will become acquainted with online communities where they find out a)the authors they love appreciate reviews, b)reviewing is one way to get free books, c)reviewing on places like Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ is a fun way to keep track of your books and make friends with similar tastes, etc. I'm not too worried about reviewers being swamped, either. I know, as a reviewer, that my tbr pile spans bookshelves, but the newest hot book can easily jump to the top. My goal is convincing people that my book is the next hot read. Michael J. Sullivan is an inspiration in how he approaches this. He loves the thrill of finding one reviewer, and then finding one more, and one more. We can do that, even if it takes ten or twenty emails before we find one. My goal is to make those ten emails take less time. I'm confident we can find readers/reviewers, we just often lack the time it takes to send the ten emails needed to find the one.

Joined the group Apocalypse Whenever. I read their etiquette post, but was still given the opportunity to add my book to their to read shelf and post a review request /topic/show/.... Some of the grouos leaders have notes on their profile not to send requests to their profile or website, but they still offer a place in the group.