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Eighteen Magazines that publish reviews http://www.authorspublish.com/18-literary-magazines-that-publish-book-reviews/
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Jewish Values Center http://jewishvaluescenter.org https://www.wizevents.com/survey/survey.php?id=462
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Where, What, When Magazine Mrs. Elaine Berkowitz eberkowitz1@msn.com
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Washington Jewish Week news@washingtonjewishweek.com
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Jewish Collegiate Network Efy Flamm efy@jcnonline.org
AJOP National Director, Rabbi Yitzchok Lowenbraun ryl@ajop.com Tobey Finkelstein tobey@ajop.com
Adat Chaim Sisterhood adatchaim18@juno.com
Beth Israel Congregation Sisterhood yenta_18@yahoo.com
Beth El Congregation Sisterhood judipach@comcast.net
Chizuk Amuno Congregation Sisterhood info@chizukamuno.org
Suburban Orthodox Congregation rabbisilber@suburbanorthodox.org
Hadassah of Baltimore baltimore.chapter@hadassah.org
The Associated, Jewish Federation of Baltimore: Rochelle Eisenberg, reisenberg@associated.org
Jewish Publications
Hadassah Magazine Ms. Libby Barnea lbarnea@hadassah.org
Jewish Action Ms. Nechama Carmel carmeln@ou.org
The Jewish Press Mrs. Chumi Friedman, Magazine Editor chumi@jewishpress.com
Aish.com Rabbi Nechemiah Coopersmith ncoopersmith@aish.com
Rabbi Eric Coopersmith ecoopersmith@aish.com
Chabad.org Mrs. Chana Weisberg cweisberg@chabad.org
The Wellspring Magazine Shiffy Friedman, Editor shiffy6789@gmail.com
The Jewish Week editor@jewishweek.org
Five Towns Jewish Home Shoshana Soroka editor@fivetownsjewishhome.ocm
The Florida Jewish Home info@thefloridajewishhome.com
Jewish Home LA editor@jewishhomela.com
Arizona Jewish News MANAGING EDITOR Janet Perez jperez@jewishaz.com
Jewish Herald-Voice news@jhvonline.com
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, JTA newsdesk@JTA.org
The Jewish Connection Magazine info@jewishc.com
The Jewish Voice editor@jewishvoiceny.com
The Intermountain Jewish News email@ijn.com
JewishMom.com Mrs. Chana Jenny Weisberg chanajennyw@gmail.com
Australian Jewish News ajn@jewishnews.net.au
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The Jewish Chronicle Toby Tabachnick tobyt@thejewishchronicle.net
Flatbush Jewish Journal editor editor@thefjj.com
Jerusalem Post Liat Collins liat@jpost.com Shawn Rodgers jpost.arts@gmail.com Elli Wohlgelernter nitenews@jpost.com
The Dennis Prager Show Dennis@DennisPrager.com
Zev Brenner Radio Show TCNTAlk@aol.com Berry Lynch tcnproducer@gmail.com
South African Jewish Report Peta Krost Maunder editor@sajewishreport.co.za
Martine Bass editorial@sajewishreport.co.za
Hevria.com editor@hevria.com
Tradition Magazine
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The Jewishlink.com info@thejewishlink.com
National Publications
NPR programming: Katie Anastas kanastas@npr.org
Wall Street Journal, National Religion Reporter, Ian Lovett ian.lovett@wsj.com
RealClearReligion.org editors@realclearreligion.org
The Boston Globe Lisa Wangness, Religion Reporter lwangsness@globe.com I am away from the Globe on a fellowship until May 2018. I will not be checking this email account. If you have news or story ideas, please contact editor Felice Belman felice.belman@globe.com, or call the city desk at 617-929-3100.If you need to reach me, please use my personal email address, lisa.wangsness@gmail.com.
Jewish and Non-Jewish Organizations that assist people with Eating Disorders
info@NationalEatingDisorders.org
info@reliefhelp.org mlowy@reliefhelp.org yslansky@reliefhelp.org
dberman@reliefhelp.org info@misgav.org info@reliefhelp.uk mrapoport@reliefhelp.org
Chevese Turner, President, Founder and CEO
chevese.turner@bedaonline.com BEDA Binge Eating Disorder Association
chazon@aish.com
www.projectchazon.com
Rabbi Daniel Mechanic, director
areivim@juno.com
www.areivim.com
Rabbi Shmuel Gluck, director
Jewish Outreach Organizations – (Aish is highlighted in the book so all the following will be particularly interested.)
Richard M. Horowitz, International President • rhorowitz@aish.com
Dr. Stuart Hytman, Board member shytman@aish.com
Rabbi Ephraim Shore, Executive Director, Aish Jerusalem eshore@aish.com
Rabbi Steven Burg, Director General sburg@aish.com
Rabbi Gil Eisenbach, Mashgiach geisenbach@aish.com
Max Kalles, Director of Alumni Services mkalle@aish.com
Rabbi Meir Rosenberg, Director of Outreach mrosenberg@aish.com
Audio/Media Center Aaron Dayan, Director adayan@aish.com
Rabbi Moshe Zeldman, Senior Lecturer mzeldman@aish.com
ELC – Executive learning Center
Rabbi Elazar Grunberger, Program Coordinator egrunberger@aish.com
Rabbi Zelig Pliskin, Senior Lecturer zpliskin@aish.com
Rabbi Asher Resnick, Senior Lecturer aresnick@aish.com
Rabbi Yom Tov Glaser, Senior Lecturer yglaser@aish.com
Rabbi Ken Spiro, Tour Guide kspiro@aish.com
Patrick Amar, Missions pamar@aish.com
Rabbi Stuart Schwartz, Director stuart@aish.com
Rabbi Eliyahu Ellis e@aish.com
Rabbi Motty Berger, Senior Lecturer mberger@aish.com
Rabbi Avi Geller, Senior Lecturer ageller@aish.com
Dr. Gerald Schroeder, Senior Lecturer gschroeder@aish.com
Rabbi Gavriel Friedman, Senior Lecturer gfriedman@aish.com
EYAHT eyaht@aish.com
Jerusalem Fellowships
Rabbi Chanan Kaufman, Executive Director ckaufman@aish.com
J.E.W.E.L. – Women’s Introductory Program
Sara Berzansky, Administrative Director sberzansky@aish.com
Rebbetzin Devorah Eisenbach, Dean of Students deisenbach@aish.com
Stacey Kalla, Special Projects Coordinator skalla@aish.com
Chana Liza Myers, Program Coordinator/Administrative Assistant cmyers@aish.com
Aish Campus Rabbis
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– Rabbi Chananel Weiner chananelw@aish.com
- Brooklyn, NY
– Rabbi Jonny Kersh jkersh@aishny.com
- Columbia U. and Barnard College
- Connecticut University
– Rabbi Yitzy Gross ygross@aish.com
– Racheli Gross rgross@aish.com
- Cincinnati
– Rabbi Rafi Weinschneider rabbirafi@gmail.com
- Florida U. at Gainesville
– Rabbi Meir Golub mgolub@aish.com
– Gemma Golub ggolub@aish.com
– Rabbi Yaakov Tzvi Hoffman, Director of Campus Outreach yhoffman@aish.com
– Chana Hoffman choffman@aish.com
• Montclair State
– Ari Ackerman, Director aackerman@aishny.com
– Daniella Ackerman dackerman@aish.com
– Rabbi Ricki Vigon, Director rvigon@aish.com
– Rabbi David Grant dgrant@aish.com
– Rabbi Seth Cook scook@aish.com
– Lisa Cook lcook@aish.com
• Stony Brook University
- SUNY Buffalo
– Rabbi Baruch Frankel bfrankel@aish.com
– Shani Frankel sfranke@aish.com
– Rabbi Bentzi Teller bteller@aish.com
– Ruchama Teller rteller@aish.com
– Rabbi Tzvi Gluckin tgluckin@aish.com
Rabbi Yehuda Appel, Executive Director yappel@aish.com , aishcleveland@aol.com
Rabbi Daniel Olgin, Ohio State danielolgin@sbcglobal.net
Rabbi Asher Cohen, Pittsburgh acohen@aish.com
Rabbi Seth Cook, Indiana University scook@aish.com
Barrie Feld, Director of Women’s Division bfeld@aish.com
Beth Baker, Project Inspire bbaker@projectinspire.com
Miriam Chamberg, Administrator mchamberg@aish.com
Rabbi Yaakov Meyer, Senior Rabbi and CEO ymeyer@aish.com
Rabbi Zev Pomeranz, Associate Rabbi zpomeranz@aish.com
info@aishdenver.com
Rabbi Simcha Tolwin, Executive Director stolwin@aish.com
Rabbi Alon Tolwin, Founder atolwin@aish.com
Rabbi David Rosenthal rosenthal613@gmail.com
Estie Tolwin, Programming Director etolwin@aish.com
Aish Livingston NJ
Rabbi Simcha Barnett, Director sbarnett@projectinspire.com
Rabbi Aryeh Markman, Executive Director aryeh@aishla.com
Rabbi Moshe Cohen, Community Rabbi mcohen@aishla.com
Rebbetzin Sharon Shenker, Women’s Division sshenker@aishla.com
Rabbi Yitz Jacobs, Young Professionals Division yjacobs@aishla.com
Rebbetzin Chana Heller, Young Professionals Division cheller@aishla.com
Rabbi Dov Heller, M.A., Aish Relationship Institute dheller@aish.com
Rabbi Mordechai Teller, Aish Ignite mordechai@aishla.com
Dalia Eliav, Young Professional Coordinator deliav@aish.com
Aish Tamid of Los Angeles info@aishtamid.org
Aish Minnesota
Rabbi Dovid Fredman, Executive Director rabbifredman@aish.com
Giti Fredman, Program Coordinator & Director of Women’s gitifredman@aish.com
Rabbi Yitz Greenman, Executive Director/CEO ygreenman@aishny.com
Shaindel Minzer, Executive PA sminzer@aishny.com
Rabbi David Markowitz, Managing Director dmarkowitz@aishny.com
Zahava Samet, Special Projects Director zsamet@aishny.com
Michal Nordmann, Marketing Director mnordmann@aishny.com
Temima Berkovitz, Social Media Manager tberkowitz@aishny.com
Michael Horwitz, Fundraising Initiatives • bio • tel: ext. 30 • email: mhorwitz_@_aishny.com
Tamar Markowitz, Campus Coordinator tmarkowitz@aishny.com
Keith Rosenblum, Campus Recruitment krosenblum@aishny.com
Avigayil Margolis, Volunteer Captain amargolis@aishny.com
Leah Greenman, Ahavas Yisroel Project lgreenman@aish.com
Randi Azoulay, Ahavas Yisroel Project razoulay@aish.com
The Aish Center (in New York)
Rabbi Adam Jacobs, Managing Director ajacobs@aish.com
Rabbi Henry Harris, Educational Director hharris@aish.com
Rabbi Stuart Shiff, Executive Learning Director yshiff@aish.com
Tzipora Harris, Lecturer tharris@aish.com
Esther Hirsch, Monday Night Learning ehirsch@aish.com
Sara Gollom, Program Director sgollom@aish.com
Rabbi Eli Kopel, Executive Director rabbikopel@gmail.com
Rebbetzin Estee Kopel, Women’s Division EstiKopel@aish.com
Rabbi Tzvi Nightingale, Executive Director tnightingale@aish.com
Jennifer Coane, Campus Director jcoane@aish.com
Rabbi Yosef David, Executive Director ydavid@aish.com
Rabbi Shmuel Greenwald, Educational Director sgreenwald@aish.com
Mark Halpern, President mark@illnessprotection.com
Rabbi Mitch Mandel, Executive Director mmandel@aish.com
Rabbi Mark Zelunka, Director of Education mzelunka@aish.com
Rabbi Mark Zelunka mzelunka@aish.com
Rachel Zelunka rzelunka@aish.com
Rabbi Daniel Wolnerman dwolnerman@aish.com
Brenda Wolnerman bwolnerman@aish.com
Rabbi Gavry Mandel gmandel@aish.com
Deena Mandel dmandel@aish.com
Rabbi Elisha Mandel, Rabbi emandel@aish.com
Aish Thornhill Community Shul
Rabbi Avram Rothman, Rabbi of Thornhill Community Shul arothman@aish.com
Hadassah Hoffer, Assistant to the Rabbi and Director of Bat Mitzvah hhoffer@aish.com
The Village Shul (Toronto)
Rabbi Ahron Hoch, Rabbi of The Village Shul ahoch@aish.com
Rabbi Tzvi Sytner, tsytner@aish.com
Abi Samole, Executive Director as amole@aish.com
Ellie Bass, Director of the JFI : jfi@aish.com
Adrienne Gold, Senior Lecturer agold@aish.com
Rabbi Shlomo Buxbaum, Director sbuxbaum@aish.com
Rabbi Stephen Baars, Aish on the Hill/Bliss sbaars@aish.com
Devorah Buxbaum, Director of Family Outreach and Women’s dbuxbaum@aish.com
Aish Campus DC
Dani Rovinsky, Fellowship Coordinator danielle.rovinsky@gmail.com
Oren Rabinowitz, Student Campus Coordinator orabinowitz@aish.com
Jerusalem Partners – Los Angeles
Tali Rosental trosental@aish.com
Rabbi Daniel Mechanic, Director dmechanic@projectchazon.com
Rabbi Yerachmiel Milstein, Exec. Vice President ymilstein@projectchazon.com
Rabbi Yaakov Salomon, Creative Director yaakovsalomon@gmail.com
Dasi Krupnik, Program Coordinator dkrupnik@projectchazon.com
Rabbi Chaim Sampson, Director of Project Inspire csampson@projectinspire.com
Rabbi Yossi Friedman, Managing Director yfriedman@projectinspire.com
Devorah Benarroch, Leadership Mentor and One-on-One Learning Coordinator dbenarroch@projectinspire.com
Cecilia Feiman Snir, Director of Campaigns and Satellites cfeiman@projectinspire.com
Daniel Coren, Monsey Director dcoren@projectinspire.com
Rabbi Yoni Zakutinsky, Brooklyn Director yzakutinsky@projectinspire.com
Rabbi Moshe Zionce, Toronto mzionce@projectinspire.com
Rachelli Krongold, Toronto Program rachelli@projectinspire.com
Beth Baker, Cleveland Coordinator bbaker@projectinspire.com
Rachelle Myers, Greater Washington Coordinator rmyers@projectinspire.com
Aish Australia
Rabbi Andrew Saffer, Director asaffer@aish.com
Rabbi Jon Neumann, Educational Director jneumann@aish.com
Rabbi Reuven Segal, Director rsegal@aish.com
Rabbi Jaim Waissbluth, Director jaim.waissbluth@aish.cl
Rabbi Eliahu Tamim : eliahu.tamim@aish.cl
Rabbi Efraim Sauer efraim.sauer@aish.cl
David Russek, Director drussek@aish.com
Rabbi Yehuda Cano, AishTeens ycano@aish.com
Aish Mexico City
Rabbi Arturo Kanner, General Director akanner@aish.com
Aish South Africa
Rabbi Chaim Willis, Director cwillis@aish.org.za
Rabbi Roziel Pilatowsky rpilatowsky@aish.com
Rabbi Chaim Vegoda cvegoda@aish.com
Rabbi Gedalia Kauffman gkauffman@aish.org.za
Rabbi Yisrael Ziskin yziskin@aish.org.za
Rabbi Shlomo Karpes skarpes@aish.org.za
Rabbi David Ziering, Director dziering@aish.com
Rabbi Yoni Kayman, ykayman@aish.com
Rabbi Shaul Rosenblatt, Executive Director shaul@tikun.co.uk
Chana Rosenblatt chana@anewthought.co.uk
Rabbi Yosef Solomon yosef@tikun.co.uk
Rabbi Naftali Schiff, Executive Director nschiff@aish.org.uk
Rabbi Moshe Mayerfeld, Managing Director mmayerfeld@aish.org.uk
Rabbi Saul Kelly, Campus Department skelly@aish.org.uk
Rabbi Daniel Sturgess, Aish Birmingham dsturgess@aish.org.uk
Alli Sturgess, Aish Birmingham asturgess@aish.com
Rabbi Benji Silverstone, Director of Aish Manchester bsilverstone@aish.org.uk
Rabbi Melech-Dovid Kanter, Director of Aish Leeds mkanter@aish.org.uk
Rabbi Zev Glass, Director of Aish Essex zglass@aish.org.uk
Rabbi Dani Smolowitz, Co-Director of Aish Essex dsmolowitz@aish.org.uk
Avi Schwartz, Aish Campus – Nottingham aschwartz@aish.org.uk
Rabbi Jonny Roodyn, Aish UK, Campus Follow jroodyn@aish.org.uk
Yael Roodyn, Campus Follow Up for Women yroodyn@aish.com
JET Ottawa info@jetottawa.com
Oorah
Rabbi Yehoshua Weinstein yehoshua.weinstein@oorah.org Rabbi Chaim Reichman chaim.reichman@oorah.org Rabbi Mordechai Beer mordechai.beer@oorah.org Rabbi Shimon Beer shimon.beer@oorah.org Rabbi Tzvi Cohen tzvi.cohen@oorah.org Mrs. Chani Stern chain.stern@oorah.org Mrs. Tzippy Sommers tzippy.sommers@oorah.org Mrs. Marcy Schreiber marcy.schreiber@oorah.org Mrs. Rochel Reichman rochel.reichman@oorah.org Mrs. Aidy Nussbaum aidy.nussbaum@oorah.org Rabbi Chaim Marmor chaim.marmor@oorah.org Rabbi Louis Friedman louis.friedman@oorah.org Rabbi Shalom Gerendasi sholom.gerendasi@oorah.org Ms. Bracha Halberstadt bracha.halberstadt@oorah.org Rabbi Mordechai Horovitz mordechai.horovitz@oorah.org
TORCH Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe awolbe@torchweb.com
Rebbetzin Zehava Wolbe zwolbe@torchweb.com
Highlighted in the book: Neve College for Women Neveny@nevey.org
Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller tziporah48@gmail.com
JET, Jewish Educational Team, Chicagoland, Rabbi Zev Kahn, Founder and Director
Hilary Kahn Position: Director of Women’s Division hilary@jetcampus.com
Rivki Cherrick Women’s Educator at UIUC r.cherrick@jetcampus.com
Manhattan Jewish Experience info@jewishexperience.org
Ruthie Braffman ruthie@jewishexperience.org
Rabbi Joshua Klein joshuak@jewishexperience.org
Long Island Torah Network info@longislandtorah.org
The Jewish Heritage Center of Queens and Long Island
jhc@thejhc.org
Rabbi Naftali Portnoy, Director nportnoy@thejhc.org
Rabbi Moshe Turk, Director mturk@thejhc.org
Rabbi Avraham Portnoy, Associate Director aportnoy@thejhc.org
Rabbi Eliyahu Turk, Associate Director eturk@thejhc.org
Rabbi Yoni Katz, College Campus Outreach ykatz@thejhc.org
Ohr Naava, Rabbi Zechariah Wallerstein: rebbewallerstein@ohrnaava.com
Jews for Judaism ask@jewsforjudaism.org
Hillel at ASU hillel@hillelasu.org
Hillel at Cornell University cuhillel@gmail.com
Shorashim.Today contact@shorashim.today
National Jewish Outreach Program info@njop.org
Jewish Renaissance Center Rebbetzin Leah Kohn learning@jewishrenaissance.org
NCSY
Rabbi Yitzchok Dinovitzer rabbid@ncsy.org
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The Jerusalem Kollel
YBoretsky@TheJerusalemKollel.com
YBlackman@TheJerusalemKollel.com
The CTN Center Chicago Torah Network
E-mail: info@torahnetwork.org
Laura Marder
Director of Women’s Programming, Chicago YJP laura@torahnetwork.org
Jewish Book Clubs
Hadassah Book Club Roselyn Kolodny rozlk@yahoo.com
Bender Jewish Community of Greater Washington Book Club Norma Kruperine normakrup@gmail.com
Hadassah Book Club, Jewish Federation Gail Byers byershousehold@yahoo.com
Hadassah NW Book Club Sandra Reino uriella1999@yahoo.com
Temple Beth El Book Club Mallory Lite Mallory@tetucson.org
Our Jewish Book Club Simone Lund simonefidel@hotmail.com
Great Jewish Book Club bookclub@yiddishbookcenter.org
JBC Book Club Miri Pomerantz Dauber bookclub@jewishbooks.org
Jewish Book Club Congregation Bet Shalom Rosa Simkhovich rozas@cox.net
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There is an approximate 14 to 16-week “window of opportunity” for a book to be assigned out for review.
If/when a book makes the final cut and is featured, we will automatically send a tear sheet to the publisher for their records. When a book has been submitted on a publisher’s behalf by an independent publicist, we will also try to furnish the publicist with a tear sheet for their files as well. It is the publisher’s responsibility to inform authors and editors of the review.
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Great Article on reviews.
If you give a person/reviewer a copy of your book and ask them for a review, they are supposed to reveal the fact that they received the book and did not have to pay for it. Therefore, it is a good bet that their review came from their true evaluation not the free e-book. I have one such review under my title as I wanted a younger reader’s opinion of my historical work 1933-1948 Brooklyn/Ireland. I already knew that my older readers loved it and gave it top stars. My reviewer, a young gal who is an editor, did reveal herself but went ahead and shorted the read by one star. Yep, not her favorite kind of read.
Also, I must laugh when this article states:
It’s OK to pay for a professional review from established magazines like Kirkus, Publisher’s Weekly, or Midwest Book Review. I don’t know if they’re worth the price, but they’re not in the same category as paid “customer” reviews.
WHAT? They are not in the same category?
All paid reviewers are Paid Reviewers!
Paid Reviews: Why Authors Should NEVER Buy Amazon Reader Reviews
Last month the Seattle Times reported that Amazon is suing a bunch of paid review mills.
Unfortunately, many paid review sites don’t feel they’re doing anything wrong. A spokesman for one of the companies Amazon is suing said:
“We are not selling fake reviews. However we do provide Unbiased and Honest reviews on all the products…and this is not illegal at all.” (Caps are his. Apparently using mid-sentence caps makes you look more sincere.)
This stuff may not be technically illegal. (We’ll have to see this play out in the courts.) But buying customer reviews is definitely against the Terms of Service of most retailers and can get you kicked off Amazon for life.
It can also draw the ire of the vigilantes who hang out in the Amazon fora, Goodreads, and BookLikes, who are some of the nastiest cyberbullies on the ‘Net. To them, an accusation equals guilt and you are never allowed to prove your innocence. These are people who learned their ethics from the Salem witch trials.
So you really want to stay under their radar.
I understand why they are annoyed. It seems as if every day I get followed by another paid review mill on Twitter. And their sites are slick. They make it seem as if paying for reviews is a part of the process of self-publishing.
It often does seem as if paying for an online “customer review” is an accepted aspect of doing business these days. You hear all the time about businesses paying for five-star ratings on Yelp and other review sites.
But don’t do it for your books. If you’ve been tricked into paying for reviews, ask that they be deleted.
Otherwise, you could get in big trouble. Soon.
What’s the difference between a customer review and a professional review?
It’s OK to pay for a professional review from established magazines like Kirkus, Publisher’s Weekly, or Midwest Book Review. I don’t know if they’re worth the price, but they’re not in the same category as paid “customer” reviews.
The reviewers at those journals are trained and vetted professionals writing for well known magazines that have a reputation to uphold—not a bunch of guys in a cafe in Sri Lanka stringing together a few words for five bucks.
Professional reviews can’t be posted on retail sites in the review section. You can paste a small quote from one of them into the “editorial reviews” section, but not in the review thread.
A customer review is not supposed to be for sale.
What is considered payment for a review?
Unfortunately, a number of common practices in the traditional book world are considered “payment” in the online world.
Even a free book is considered payment by Amazon, so book review bloggers are required to post disclaimers when they review a book they received from the author or publisher.
Reviews that come from a paid blog tour are also not eligible as customer reviews. You can only quote from them in the “editorial reviews” section.
Amazon also does not permit reviews (or votes on reviews) to be posted in exchange for any kind of compensation—including bonus content, entry to a contest or sweepstakes, discounts on future purchases, extra products, or other gifts. And the free book must be given before the review is posted with no stipulations about what kind of review must be written.
If you do offer a free or discounted product in exchange for a review, you need to make it clear that you welcome both positive and negative feedback.
This includes trading reviews
Review barter between authors is strictly forbidden as well. Anybody who says, “I’ll give you a five star if you give me one” is asking you to pay for a review in kind.
No author should review another with the expectation that the review will be reciprocated. I see authors all the time who complain that author “X” hasn’t given them a review, “even though I gave him a rave.” Let go of that expectation. Nobody owes you a review. If you did get it, you might not be pleased, anyway.
Some unscrupulous authors may approach another with this blackmail game: “I gave you a 5-star, now you give me one, or I’ll change it to a one-star.” Don’t fall for it. It’s better to lose the one review than get on the wrong side of the Zon or its vigilantes. Do report the blackmailer to Amazon.
Amazon doesn’t always pay attention to reports of abuse, but any author who gets reported for blackmail repeatedly might find themselves banned from the site. When abuse reports reach critical mass, something is usually done.
Some of the vigilantes believe no author should be allowed to write a review, but this is silly in these days where nearly everybody who reads has tried their hand at writing a book. But you do need to make sure your reviews are always honest and there is never a direct trade or a quid pro quo.
But be careful when reviewing something in your own sub-genre or any author who might be considered “a competitor”. Amazon’s TOS say “You may not write reviews for products or services that you have a financial interest in, including reviews for products or services that you or your competitors sell. This has been interpreted in different ways, but everybody agrees it’s a no-no to trash a competitor’s books.
And please, please, please don’t send me your book expecting me to review it. We average 100,000 hits a month, have nearly 4000 subscribers, and we LOVE every single one of you, but I have at least 200 books in my TBR pile. I read in a limited number of genres—I prefer cerebral comedies and classics—and I do leave an Amazon review if I enjoy a book, but I’m a very slow reader.
This blog is my way of giving back to the writing community. I get no revenue from it. It takes time I might otherwise spend reading and writing. So please do allow me some time to write my own books. (And deal with some heavy-duty health issues I’m fighting right now.)
But we do appreciate every one of our readers. We just reached 2 million hits yesterday!
The new plague of paid review mills
I’m sure the current spike in fake reviews comes from the rise of the e-book bargain newsletters—like Bookbub, Kindle Nation Daily, and Ereader News Today—which have become the advertising medium of choice for indie authors. (The Big Five make liberal use of them for marketing their backlists, too.) .
Unfortunately, most of the big newsletters require a large number of 4 and 5-star reviews on the US Amazon site to accept a book for promotion. I wish they’d find a more reliable method of choosing books, because this has brought authors a major incentive to game the system.
It also gives a huge weight to reviews at the US Amazon, so other countries’ sites, plus B & N, Kobo, Apple, etc, get very few reviews at all.
The problem is momentous for authors who write for an older demographic. If your readership is older people, it can be an exercise in tooth-pulling to get even a handful of reviews, even though readers may gush about how they love your work on FB or email.
Several years ago, there was a big expose of review mills in the New York Times, and Amazon removed 1000s of reviews and most of the review sites were shut down. But they’re back…with a vengeance. My friend who blogs as The Wordmonger said he got something like 19 tweets a week last month from different review mills promising 5-star reviews for a price. And Mr. Monger doesn’t even have a book out.
The worst are the review companies who say they will write “honest” reviews with no guarantee of stars. DO NOT FALL FOR THIS. If you pay, the review is not acceptable to Amazon, even if it’s honest.
This happened to a friend of mine. She paid for three or four of what she believed would be “honest” reviews.
Now a vigilante group is harassing the author, stalking her, trashing her reputation online, and making threats against her and her family.
This author is nearly seventy and has been writing her whole life, but she’s new to the Amazon world. She didn’t realize that all paid reviews are a no-no.
There’s a reason for her confusion. The review mills are very clever at lying to their customers. Some even use the Amazon logo on their site and claim to be Amazon affiliates. I’ve seen them when they follow me on Twitter. They say that they provide “the correct way” to get Amazon reviews tell newbies it’s the only way to make the bestseller lists.
But they are flat-out lying.
So how do we get reviews?
I know it’s not easy, especially if you write for my generation. (Yes, I’m a Boomer who is very much feeling my age this week.) The problem is we simply aren’t in the habit of writing online reviews. And we’re usually put off by those emails demanding we do “homework” after buying a product. But we need to start writing them. It’s one of the few ways to fight this stuff. Bring in some grown-ups!
If you want to know the right way to get reviews, here’s a helpful piece by Kimberly Grabas at Your Writer Platform and another great one from marketing guru Penny Sansevieri.
Do follow all the steps they suggest. Randomly sending queries to the top-rated Amazon reviewers can lead to grief. Many of the established reviewers are very anti-self-publishing. So carefully research each one. Mass-querying hardly ever works, and it can backfire, big time. Don’t do it.
Here are some tips from a bunch of pros about how to market your book. None of them involve paying for reviews. (I’m one of 18 people interviewed for this piece. I don’t know if I’ve ever been called a “one of the world’s foremost thought-leaders” before. LOL.) But there are some fantastic tips from some of the best marketing people out there!
How about Amazon’s other review problems?
I know a lot of you are thinking, um, paid reviews aren’t exactly the only problem on Amazon.
Every article I see about the paid review lawsuit is followed by comments from authors who feel the whole Amazon review system is in serious need of a clean-up
I agree there are BIG problems beyond the paid review stuff. Almost any author who is trying to sell books these days has run into the trolls and sock puppets who seem to spend their days leaving nasty or idiotic reviews (for books they obviously haven’t read) for no particular purpose except to wield the power they probably don’t have in their real lives.
There are also armies of Dana Carvey wannabes who love to one-star random books for “profanity and too much sex” (which they probably don’t realize may actually boost sales). Others are trying to push some other political or religious agenda.
And lots of humor-challenged politically-correctibots seem to have nothing to do but lurk around Amazon attacking works of humor or satire that go over their tiny heads.
There’s also lots of unpleasantness generated from the Amazon fora, which are the domain of long-time Amazon denizens who predate the ebook era and tend to hate ebooks and indies. These Amazon message boards (as opposed to the Kindleboards) started as a site for discussion of videogames and game reviews and are still dominated by a pervasive old-school gamer mentality.
If you heard anything about the #Gamergate controversy last summer, you know the attitude I’m talking about.This is an aggressive, intolerant, testosterone-fueled universe where innocence is a crime and everybody is assumed to be guilty of something. It’s an attitude that can be dangerous to readers and writers alike.
(Remember people judge others by themselves. People who accuse everybody they meet of gaming the system are only telling you about themselves.)
The gamers-of-the-Amazon-system are often in competition with each other for the lucrative “top reviewer” status which gets them free stuff to review (not just books: they get electronics and videogames and other cool, expensive stuff.) A lot of their antics have to do with competition amongst themselves, but innocents often get caught in the crossfire.
And there are other petty-theft games some scammers like to play on retail sites, like leaving a one-star that says “I never received a copy of this book.” Usually the person has placed the same “review” on dozens of books—sometimes all in one day—the only day that “person” has ever reviewed anything. If there’s no “verified purchase” tag, it usually means this “reviewer” is a sock puppet for a scammer trying to blackmail the author into sending them a free book or product.
Sock puppets (multiple fake identities) are used for all sorts of nasty purposes. Amazon seems to have no restrictions on the number of aliases a person can have, so a handful of malevolent trolls with time on their hands can wreak serious havoc on any number of vendors at the same time.
Unfortunately, Amazon doesn’t often respond to complaints about sock puppets and bullying behavior. Maybe this is because the bullies seem to be doing a good job of policing the site for free. But it’s a bit like hiring the Hell’s Angels to work security for your rock concert. That kind of stuff can backfire in nasty ways.
I hope Amazon will consider doing something to fight the bullying and scammy behavior on their site as well as the paid review people.
They could start by limiting the number of identities a person can have. I can’t think of any reason a person would need more than five pseudonyms for review purposes. If they have hundreds, I think that would be a pretty strong signal they’re up to something.
How to Fight Abuse: #1 Write Reviews
The best way you can fight the abuse of the review system is to leave honest reviews of the books you read. Amazon no longer requires 20 words for a review. Even one or two words will do, although a thoughtful review saying why you liked or disliked a book is always more helpful.
Every real review dilutes the pollution coming from review mills, scammers, trolls, and out-of-control vigilantes.
How to Fight Abuse: #2 Report It!
When you see abuse, report it through the drop down menu next to the review. They ask you if you find the review helpful or unhelpful, and right next to those buttons is one for “report abuse”.
If you’re a customer, you can also make a comment on the review, but never comment on a review of your own book. (An author shouldn’t use the comment thread even to thank the reviewer. This is against the Goodreads TOS and much frowned-upon at Amazon as well. If you want to thank a reviewer or offer a copy of your next book, do it through Author Central.)
In my forthcoming mystery novel, SO MUCH FOR BUCKINGHAM: The Camilla Randall Mysteries #5, an author comments on a review and ends up being terrorized—online and off—with swarms of obscene one-star “reviews”, destruction of her business, hacking her accounts, death and rape threats, and other horrors.
This isn’t so farfetched. I know authors who have gone through this, for much smaller offenses than my heroine. It happened to me early in my blogging career when some moron in the fora decided to misinterpret one of my posts.
These vigilantes don’t just fight fire with fire. They fight a glow-stick with a nuclear bomb. And they never let facts get in the way of their need to find somebody to torment.
It’s always best if a customer reports abuse, rather than the victim. As authors, we are vendors, not customers, so if the bully/sock puppets pose as customers, they’re the ones who are “always right.”
But if customer complaints achieve critical mass, Amazon might act, the way they’re doing with the paid reviews. I have discussed the problem with a number of well-known authors, and their complaints fall on deaf ears. Complaints need to come from customers, not vendors.
Meanwhile, do not fall for the pitches of the paid reviewers. As much as you want to qualify for that Bookbub ad, the risks are too great. The vigilantes know how to game Amazon and use the rules against you in sadistic ways most of us can’t even dream of.
Don’t risk being a target. Don’t pay for reviews and stay safe!
For a great analysis of the cybertroll and book bully problem and how to deal with them, see Shari Stauch’s post at Where Writers Win. And Eden Baylee has a great post on Bad Reviews and Bad Author Behavior on her blog this week.
What about you, scriveners? Have you ever been approached by paid-review companies? Did they tell you they were Amazon affiliates? Have you ever been bullied by the vigilantes on Amazon, Goodreads or BookLikes? What do you think we can do about the problem?
For more on what authors need to do to stay under the radar of the vigilantes, see my post on May 18th at The Kill Zone.
OPPORTUNITY ALERTS
Golden Quill Awards Writing Contest: Flash, Poetry, and Short fiction categories. Entry fee $20 for stories and poetry, $15 for flash fiction. The theme is TRANSFORMATION. Deadline July 15.
MARK TWAIN HUMOR CONTEST Entry fees: $12 Young Author or $22 Adult. 7,000 words (or fewer) of any original work of humor writing. Submissions must be in English. Submissions are not required to be in the style of Mark Twain or about Mark Twain. 1st Prize: $1,000 (Adult), $600 (Young Author). Other cash prizes! Deadline July 10
Saturday Evening Post Great American Fiction Contest. Entry fee $10. Your story should in some way touch upon the publication’s mission: Celebrating America — past, present, and future. Think Norman Rockwell. No profanity or graphic sex. Any genre. No previously published stories, but they can have appeared on your blog. Between 1,500 and 5,000 words. Deadline July 1
Big Beautiful Wellness Creative Writing Contest. NO FEE Poems up to 30 lines Fiction or Nonfic between 1000 and 2000 words. $100 first prize. Theme: Body-positive living. Looking for inspirational, positive stories. Deadline July 1.
Writer’s Village International Short Fiction Contest Prizes totalling $3200! And every entrant gets a critique. (which makes this a great deal.) Any genre of fiction up to 3000 words. Entry fee $24. Deadline June 30th.
PULP LITERATURE’S The Hummingbird Prize for Flash Fiction $10-$15 ENTRY FEE. Winner published in Winter 2016. First Prize: $300 (Runner up: $75). For unpublished short fiction up to 1,000 words in length. Contest Opens May 1, 2015 and closes June 15
Ink & Insights 2015 is a writing contest that comes with a detailed critique. Send the first 10,000-words of your book. The entry fee is $35: pricey for a contest, but a fantastic deal for a critique. Each submission is read by four judges who score 18 areas of your novel. This looks like a great opportunity! Over $5,000 cash and prizes. Deadline May 31.
WOW Spring Flash Fiction Contest: Fee $10, or $20 with critique. The critique is a fantastic deal. These quarterly contests are judged by an agent. 750 words. First prize is $350 plus a $500 publishing package, publication and an interview. 20 prizes in all. Enter early. They only take the first 300 entries. Deadline May 31.
Page and Spine–a literary magazine for emerging writers. Submit your stories and poems and get payment plus feedback! Stories get up to $20, quips and poems $5. Submissions considered between Oct. 1st and June 1st.
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Lone Star Literary Life – A lot of places are expecting authors and publishers to basically pay for reviews these days. This one is surprisingly expensive. http://www.lonestarliterary.com/go.html
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Welcome to Texasbooklover – great books and all things Texas! I am Michelle Newby, a Contributing Editor at Lone Star Literary Life, book reviewer for Foreword Reviews, and freelance writer. My reviews appear or are forthcoming in Pleiades Magazine, South85 Journal, The Review Review, Concho River Review, Monkeybicycle, Mosaic Literary Magazine, World Literature Today, Rain Taxi, Atticus Review, and The Collagist. I am a member of National Book Critics Circle. You can also find me at www.facebook.com/Texasbooklover and @txbooklover on Twitter. Authors and publicists, if you’d like me to review your book please take a look at my review policy below and email me at txbooklover@sbcgobal.net. Thank you so much for visiting! REVIEW POLICY My review policy is simple. I have a diverse range of interests. I will review almost any genre; the exceptions are romance, sci-fi and Christian fiction. I no longer review self-published work. I do not use a “star system” to rate a book as I find them reductive. If I receive a book in a timely manner, then I guarantee my review is up by the release date.
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@reviewmyebook To promote your book with us email us at ebpromote@gmail.com
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RT Book Reviews
Thanks for your inquiry. We generally consider books for review about four months ahead of publication, so unfortunately, it’s too late to have it reviewed in the magazine.
That being said, you might want to instead consider the possibility of advertising the book in the magazine in order to bring it to the attention of our readers. I’m attaching a copy of our current author / small press discounted print ad rates for your perusal. Information on our different web advertising options is at http://www.rtbookreviews.com/magazine/online-advertising. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask.
For future titles, please send deadlines and instructions at http://www.rtbookreviews.com/magazine/editorial-submissions. We receive thousands of review requests each month and, because of space limitations in RT Book Reviews magazine, only a very small percentage will make it into the magazine.
How Books Are Selected for Review Consideration:
• What we find to be most appropriate for our audience
• Recommendations from our editors and reviewers
• Advertised Books (Although we do not guarantee reviews on all advertised books, we try to cover them when possible as a service to our readers who will be looking for the reviews of the books they see in the ads. (Please note that advertised books DO NOT influence the rating)
Because the market has changed so rapidly and there are thousands (perhaps millions) of small press and self-published authors looking for a reputable review for their books, starting in early 2015 we will be offering an RT Reviewing Service similar to what Kirkus and Publishers Weekly currently offer — but for our genre books. This will allow us to cover a lot more books on our website and in our digital edition of RT with a select few top-rated books making it into the print magazine..
This review service will not affect our current policy for reviewing books in RT Book Reviews magazine — i.e. we will continue to review more than 250 books a month at no charge.
In the meantime, consider advertising your book in the magazine to build more name recognition and to get visibility for the book. Our subscribers are voracious readers who are always looking to discover new (or new to them) authors.
Giselle Hirtenfeld/Goldfeder
RT Book Reviews
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Military Spouse Review www.facebook.com/militaryspousebookreview
andria816@aol.com and my address is 13925 Sparren Ave., San Diego, Ca 92129.
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Books, Ideas, Life in the Military
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A place for military spouses and all women connected to the military to share ideas about books, writing, the military life, and more. To contribute your own writing, seewww.militaryspousebookreview.wordpress.com.
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Love Reading http://www.lovereading.co.uk/ Lovereading is a promotional site recommending books (primarily fiction and selected non-fiction) to our readers that we think they will enjoy. Our editorial experts select and review titles for our site. Unfortunately we are unable to accept pdfs for review purposes but if you have a hard-copy of the book that you would like to be considered for review, please send a copy of the book to the address below:
Editorial
Lovereading Ltd,
59 High Street,
East Grinstead,
Sussex,
RH19 3DD
All books featured on the site must be available, as stock items, from our suppliers, Gardners. There is also usually a cost for the featured books on the site so we would need details of the marketing department of the publisher.
Jeremy, Customer Service Lovereading ltd 59 High Street, East Grinstead, Sussex RH19 3DD
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Book Blows ebpromote@gmail.com https://twitter.com/bookblows
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From: “BookViral” <rapidreviewservice@bookviral.com> (Costs, may not want to use this one)
Please know that of all the books submitted for review to Book Viral, we typically accept less than 10% and only those we believe we can write a great review for. We specifically look for books from indie authors or small publishing houses as we believe there is a wealth of untapped talent which deserves recognition.
Unfortunately we no longer accept books for free reviews. The publishing landscape is becoming increasingly more competitive and our ‘Fast Track’ service is designed to become an integrated part of your book marketing strategy for bolstering competitive advantage and visibility. A must for authors who want to reach more readers, we have spotlighted and promoted over 500 authors to date and believe the service offers exceptional value. As a Fast Track author you will receive:-
- An actively promoted author spotlight page and Book Viral review of your book which will go live within 10 working days,
- Plus another 3 guaranteed independent reader reviews placed on
Amazon UK and/or Goodreads
- Daily promotional tweets for two weeks with an average weekly reach in excess of 575k
- Twice weekly tweets for another 3 months after your initial promotion has ended.
- Your spotlight promoted on our facebook group page with over 7,000 members
- Your book cover in an additional side panel for three months
- Your book cover on our front page for a week
- Your book always ranked on our recently spotlighted author pages
- Your spotlight review actively promoted to book viral readers
- Your spotlight promoted on our facebook page
The link for our Fast track service. http://bookviral.com/fasttrack-promotions-4/4585139410
It is important to be clear we do not offer a paid review service, any review we write for your book will be unbiased. When paying for our Fast track promotion you are paying for our spotlight feature and for Book Viral to actively promote it on your behalf. We take pride in promoting original books and do not include negative reviews on our site as we feel this is detrimental to building a constructive working relationship with the authors we work with. If our initial assessment of your book proves wrong we will simply return your fee.
Finally you may have noticed that we don’t believe in automated replies and strive to build a trusting relationship with the authors we are fortunate to work with. You have invested yourself body and soul in your work and we understand this. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to come back to me.
John, BookViral Author Reviews http://bookviral.com/fasttrack-promotions-4/4585139410
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Jim Greenwald LeansToFar@aol.com, Lead Reviewer, MWSA (Military Writer’s Society of America) www.mwsadispatches.com
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Boston Review http://www.bostonreview.net/ http://www.bostonreview.net/writer-guidelines-submissions
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BookPeople Teen Pres Corps http://bookpeopleteens.wordpress.com/?utm_source=Publishers+Weekly%27s+PW+Daily&utm_campaign=9c6b4ce2de-UA-15906914-1&utm_medium=email
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BookPage…accepts galleys or finished books at least 3 months prior to publication http://bookpage.com/content/submission-guidelines
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Woman’s Day invites book club members to help review new titles by writing to womansday@hearst.com Editor-in-Chief Susan Spencer susan@womansday.com
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LibraryThing http://www.librarything.com/
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The Shiny Book Review http://shinybookreview.wordpress.com
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Reviewers Roundup ReviewersRoundup@groups.facebook.com
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Alluring Reviews www.alluring-reviews.blogspot.com Honest Reviews for Romance Novels and More
Bab’s Book Bistro www.babsbookbistro.net
Book Bub Sonja Peterson Account Coordinator http://unbound.bookbub.com @BookBubPartners
Blackraven’s Reviews www.blackravensreviews.com
Book Lovers Inc. – http://www.manicreaders.com/index.cfm?disp=reviewCompanyDetail&id=7
Cocktails & Books – www.cocktailsandbooks.com
Confessions from Romaholics – www.confessionsfromromaholics.com
Dark Diva Reviews – www.darkdivasreviews.com
Fallen Angel Reviews – www.fallenangelreviews.com
For the Love of Bookends – www.loveofbookends.blogspot.com
Future Slayer Girls Butt-Kicking Reviews – www.futureslayergirlsreviews.weebly.com
Great Minds Think Aloud – www.greatmindsthinkaloud.proboards.com
Harlie’s Books – www.harliesbooks.com
Kitties Like Books Too – www.kittieslikebooks.tumblr.com/
Manic Readers – www.manicreaders.com
Elizabeth of Silver’s Reviews – Book Blogger
Book Reviewer at http://silversolara.blogspot.com
Evolving as a book Marketer & Publicist http://bookmarketingbuzzblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/are-you-evolving-as-book-marketer.html
26 Ways To Save Barnes & Noble http://bookmarketingbuzzblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/how-to-save-barnes-noble.html
Do You Market Your Books Doggy Style? http://bookmarketingbuzzblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/book-marketing-doggy-style.html
Writers Read This: You Are Marketers http://bookmarketingbuzzblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/writers-read-this-you-are-marketers.html
Why Authors – and Publicists & Publishers Need A Therapist http://bookmarketingbuzzblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/why-authors-need-therapist.html
If you need assistance in promoting your book, please keep Media Connect in mind. I invite you to consult www.media-connect.com and a PW article about us last year: http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bea/article/52260-bea-2012-pta-celebrates-gold.html
Can You Market & Promote Books Like TV’s Dexter? http://bookmarketingbuzzblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/do-you-promote-books-like-dexter.html
What Is In Your Book Marketing Bag? http://bookmarketingbuzzblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/whats-in-your-book-marketing-tool-kit.html