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We all know: when you're a new author, it's difficult to pierce through the noise and get readers. It's even more difficult to get reviews. We all know: not everybody will pierce through that noise. But it's certainly doable with time and constant effort. However, there must be one trick, one idea that always works for new authors.

What was your successful tactic?

Indie Helper and Library Thing.

Lou wrote: "Indie Helper and Library Thing."

Please, tell me more about it before I search for that.

The Library Thing follows up on who you give free ebook copies to for reviews. Not sure about the other, but it was recommended to me.

It is a struggle for new authors, especially indie authors.

One easy thing for authors to do is to include a request for a review on Amazon, etc., Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ, at the end of the book. I wasn't sure how much it helps, but another author told me they hadn't done that and they believed the lack of such a request/reminder meant they got fewer reviews.

You can ask for reviews from friends, etc., but it helps if they actually buy the book on Amazon. If not, they should include a comment at the start of their review "I received an Advance Readers Copy in exchange for an honest review."

VOracious Readers has helped me. I signed up for Library Thing but I guess I have not been using it properly because it has given me no benefit at all

Laura wrote: "I use the review groups here for the first ten reviews or so. Then go from there."

Eileen wrote: "It is a struggle for new authors, especially indie authors.

One easy thing for authors to do is to include a request for a review on Amazon, etc., Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ, at the end of the book. I wasn't sure..."

Lou wrote: "The Library Thing follows up on who you give free ebook copies to for reviews. Not sure about the other, but it was recommended to me."

Thanks for the replies. I'm wondering about one thing: my book is not considered commercial. I feel like my audience is scarce and I struggle finding them as most people read commercial work. It's not the easiest book to read as I don't give answers freely. The reader has to work! How can I find these readers? Because if I don't, I feel like it's just going to drive bad reviews. Any ideas?

On Voracious, I ran a ebook giveaway there a few weeks ago, and am hoping for reviews as soon as they've read the book. The guy who runs it is really helpful and cares about authors.
Laura, I tried the review group on here, but suspected a few of them as being scams that got by Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ. The others looked legit and are probably a good idea.

I don't know if one particular method worked better than others, but one thing I did was write to newspapers or community papers that were near where the story was set and offered them a copy of the book if they wanted to review. That got some articles in their papers. Of course mine is set in the history of their area so you need to have a link or reason it would fit their paper.

A few things to keep in mind on this thread:

We aren't here to discuss reviews in the first place. At this point, I'll allow the thread to continue but please no further discussions of review swapping or groups that do this. Also, no links. This is all in the code of conduct.

Thanks.

I am sorry about the link violation> the rules do not disallow legitimate review groups and there are several on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ that have been running for years without problems because they are not direct swaps.

Laura wrote: "I am sorry about the link violation> the rules do not disallow legitimate review groups and there are several on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ that have been running for years without problems because they are not dir..."

Swapping is swapping. If Amazon finds out, you could lose your account. It doesn't matter how long a group has been around or if you think they're "legitimate". Again, discussing reviews is against the code of conduct and this is why. Thread like this always lead to review swapping. I will close this thread if we can't move away from pretending review swapping isn't a dishonest way to get reviews. It is.

Lou wrote: "On Voracious, I ran a ebook giveaway there a few weeks ago, and am hoping for reviews as soon as they've read the book. The guy who runs it is really helpful and cares about authors.
Laura, I tried..."

I'm trying to find Voracious, but I find nothing related to what you're talking about. Do you have a link?

Arch wrote: "Lou wrote: "On Voracious, I ran a ebook giveaway there a few weeks ago, and am hoping for reviews as soon as they've read the book. The guy who runs it is really helpful and cares about authors.
La..."

Hi Arch. Links can't be posted here. Just Google Voracious Readers :)