How to Get Your First 50 Honest Reviews as an Indie Author
A rules-first plan for indie authors who want their first honest reader reviews: what the stores allow, how to get a book ready to be reviewed, how to build an advance reader team, where reader platforms fit, and a ninety-day plan with templates and a tracking sheet. No tricks, and no promised review counts; nobody can guarantee reviews.
Free, about 42 pages, no sign-up needed. EPUB works in any e-reader app; the PDF is laid out for phones and tablets.
What is inside
- What "Fifty Honest Reviews" Really Means
- The Rules You Must Not Break
- Make the Book Ready to Be Reviewed
- Find Your First Readers (Before You Need Them)
- Plan the Launch Window
- Build Your Own Advance Reader Team
- Reader Platforms and Where They Fit
- GetBookReviews, the Free Place to Start
- Bloggers, Newsletters and Individual Reviewers
- Handling Reviews When They Arrive
- Your Ninety-Day Plan and Tracking Sheet
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We run GetBookReviews and say so in the book. The guide was written with the help of an AI language model and edited by the GetBookReviews team. It is free to share unchanged.