Sunday, November 22, 2009

FREE BOOK REVIEWS

FREE BOOK REVIEWS

They say, the mythical they, book reviews are the best way to promote a book, especially a self published or POD book. I can't state that for a fact, because all my endeavors to promote book sales have produced nothing, or so near nothing as to be doubtful. I thought having a few five star book reviews would do the trick, now someone says it takes a minimum of ten. I'd have to mortgage my house to do that. I understand that you can sell anything if you do enough advertising or pay someone a small war pension to do your promoting for you. I have a pension, but I need it to live on. Anyway, what I want to tell you is, there's a site out there in la la land that has come up with a list of reviewers who will review your book for FREE. It has been my experience that anything free isn't worth the paper it's written on. But then, I'm the original pessimist. However, this isn't completely free. You have to send them one of your books by mail, which is a pretty hefty expense for an old man living on a war pension but it sounds like a reasonable expense for this old skinflint. If I can't sell them, I might as well give them away. Anyway, check out this site, http://www.stepbystepselfpublishing.net/free-book-reviews.html it won't cost you anything to look. I've heard that one before, too.