Why Should You Obtain A Book Reviewer?

By Rose O'Flynn

There are two main reasons why you should obtain book reviews for your recently finished book.

The first one is that it is imperative for your development as a writer to receive independent opinions on your manuscript. These will highlight any strengths and weaknesses apparent in your work and allow you to adjust your writing style to eliminate the weaknesses and accommodate the strengths.

The book reviews should be non-discriminatory and unprejudiced. Lending your book to friends and relatives to get feedback is a brilliant way to help you finish your book, but these can't be thought of as an impartial book review. You can only be clear that your book is any good when someone you don't know reads it and provides a book review for you.

You don't have to only get a book review done when your book is completed. It's a smart idea to get an initial book review done about halfway through your book as to whether you're heading in the right direction, from a commercial point of view. It could save you hours - even days of effort - provided you take into account the findings of the book review, which allows you to correct the issues brought up.

You can then continue and complete the book without having to undertake an extensive re-write. Once the book is completed, you should obtain a further book review on the entire work.

If the book reviewer's comments are positive, you can use them for the second reason for obtaining a book review - to further the all important marketing of your book by quoting excerpts from the book reviews when preparing a book proposal.

If your manuscript has already been accepted by a publisher, book reviews can be quoted on the cover or on a book review insert at the start of the book to hook in the readers.

If the comments are negative, you can fix the issues raised during another round of editing or re-write portions of the book to produce a better finished product.

Book reviews are vital to your marketing efforts and you should obtain as many as you can. However it often takes a book reviewer 3 or 4 months to produce a book review. Factor this into your time-frame for marketing so that it is handled properly. You should start marketing your book at least 3 months for it is published. Publishing itself can take up to a year.

Getting a book out into the world is not a fast process, so be patient, be persistent and get book reviews to help you along this path.

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