Blogger reviews

I just read a terrifying thing - to be effective in marketing your book, you need to be working at it 12+ hours a day! Yes the internet makes it easier than ever before to achieve this, but also the internet can bombard and overwhelm you with information to the extent you don't know what to tackle first.

Thank god this is a publishing "journey"!

Taking No.1 from my Publicity before publishing blog post, here are five ways to find the right bloggers to review your book:

1) First, remember to treat this exercise as if you were approaching an Agent or Publisher. Be bothered to research them and their website and blog.

2) If you do your research using social media sites like Twitter and Google+, you'll find good blogger websites and they will have links to other great sites. Keep clicking through and jotting down the sites, making sure each blogger is interested in your genre.

3) Read the individual review policies.

4) Write a query email, but here's the thing - yes emails are quick but they also get deleted if they aren't personalised enough. Spend time over the personalisation. Don't forget, you're asking a blogger to spend 10+ hours reading your novel and then writing a concise review. Show them you've bothered to check out their work too.

5) Follow them on social media sites if you aren't already.