#booklr

[thebibliosphere]

Hi Joy!

As a recently published author, can I ask you a question? It’s about people who want to review my book.

I’ve been trying to figure out how to get the word out about my book, so I made a post on one of the social media sites I’m on. And now I have people messaging me saying they’ll review my book and share it with their followers on their blog and Instagram and whatnot, if I pay them for the package they’re offering. Is this advisable?

I’ve heard of sending copies of a book with a request that they take a look at it, but that’s about all I know about getting reviews from people. I am very, very new to this whole being published thing - it’s been less than a week, actually.

Any advice you could give would be greatly appreciated!

Some people will give favorable reviews for money, but you should also know there are a bunch of tiktokers in hot water right now for taking as much as $600 from people to promote their book on their platforms and then not following through with it.

You should also know there are so so so many people in the book community who will do free reviews in exchange for an ebook. I mean, shit, the entire premise of Netgalley one of the biggest ARC distributors online is built around that. No one on Netgalley is getting paid. That’s just people who love books.

So please don’t feel like you need to pay anyone, especially if that’s not in your budget.

So that said, what’s your book called? I know my followers love new things to read.

[lovesdaya]

[shisasan]

Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems Song for a red nightgown

[mostlyghostie]

Which is your favourite?

I’ve redrawn my stack of Austen books to get the image quality high enough to be a shirt/tote!

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[meandtheveggies]

Sunday 🍄‍🟫🤎🦊

[malusokay]

little book haul 𝜗𝜚˚⋆

I want to start doing more hauls lmao

tiktok saw it first and u could also follow my insta lol <3

[poirott]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AGATHA CHRISTIE! (b. September 15 1890)

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End of London since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime"—a moniker which is now trademarked by her estate—or the "Queen of Mystery". She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies.

[100-great-books]

[somerabbitholes]

i celebrated two years of moving here this week with the cutest cake

[noradaydreams]

𝑇𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑠ℎ ⋆.˚

[academic-vampire]

Seeing fellow readers in public, just peacefully reading, makes me immediately adore them.

[logophilist1982]

Cozy Academia in Scotland

[ineffable-ezra]

Everyone go read the house in the cerulean sea and then the sequel somewhere beyond the sea it needs a bigger fandom. Perfect if you like good omens, our flag means death, queer romance, and the found family trope (and if you hate jk rowling).

[shisasan]

September 12, 1940 Virginia Woolf, “A Writer’s Diary” (1918 - 1941)

[mostlyghostie]

Feeling a bit exhausted by drawing this one, but it’s maybe 75% done now.

This will be a wraparound cover for the book journal I’m making, so most of the ones on the back will show the back of books

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[dearlyjess]

5 days till my thesis proposal defense! starting my day in the best way possible, then i’ll hit the books 💫