If youâre an avid reader, you might zip through two or three books a week (maybe more!). Maybe you even write book reviews and post them at Amazon or other online venues. Have you ever thought of maintaining your own blog, posting the reviews there, and making money from your efforts?Iâm not promising that you [...]
Each year thousands of authors publish thousands of books; fiction, no fiction reference and more, books sell in varying numbers but one thing that can strongly influence how well a book sells is its reviews. Reviews are published in industry publications, newspapers, magazines and on the internet, and you could make money by writing book [...]
Whats the difference between a book report and a book review?Have you ever tried writing either one of these? Writing as one of your school requirements perhaps? Whatever it maybe, the most important thing here is that you know what are the difference between writing a book report and writing a book review.While those two [...]
If you’re looking for a good book to readâeither for your own enjoyment or a book club suggestionâwhat’s one of the first things you do? You can ask a friend. But word-of-mouth recommendations depend to a large extent on personal taste. If you want a more reliable gauge, you’ll want to find book reviews. Let’s [...]
Need to write a book review? Whether for a school requirement or a professional gig, book reviews are always an interesting work on, with little requirements in terms of formalities and plenty of flexibility when it comes to style and form.
Book reviewers, provided you distribute your work to the world, wield a unique power to [...]
Anyone can write a book review and telling the people their comments or feedbacks about a certain book they read. Writing a book review is somewhat an evaluation to the quality of the book. People can write down the book’s descriptions, some critical analysis, its significance and its meaning. If you are going to write [...]
Typically independent freelance book authors & self-publishers have a difficult time competing for “shelf-space” with the big book publishing companies on Amazon.com. We can all agree that Amazon has made self-publishing a viable income generator for self-published authors and publishers, but getting your book to show up high enough in the search results on Amazon [...]
You have just received your masterpiece in print, and it’s both exciting and scary at the same. Perhaps you’ve just realized that you aren’t the only new author out there, and nobody knows who you are. Perhaps you’ve just asked yourself, “How competitive is the book publishing industry anyway?”
The statistics may surprise you. According to [...]
“I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so”. These famous words of Sydney Smith clearly tell us a truth regarding books-that reviewing a book is no less significant a task than actually writing it out! In our fast moving world, leisurely reading of books is turning out to be an [...]
Book Review of A TRAVEL GUIDE TO HEAVEN by Anthony Destefano (Doubleday, 2003) by Michael A.S. Guth
âIf heaven is anything at all, itâs fun.â With that opening line Anthony Destefano sets a tone for his book that turns out to be as much fun to read as the place it is describing. [...]