Review: Smart Advice for New Authors...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 11, 2013
One of the delights of buying a book on Amazon is you get to see the reviews and figure out if there's something between the covers for you. Amazon has changed a lot of buying habits and today most of us would never buy a book without checking what other readers have to say about it. So if you're a new writer (and with self-publishing, there are more of those than ever before), how do you get your masterpiece to the reviewers who matter? How do you get them to look at your book...and not one the dozens of others that appeared in the last 24 hours?Paying attention to what Theo Rogers has to say is a good beginning.His book is a fast read and an easy to follow game plan.  Theo has done an in-depth study of Amazon reviewing and how it works, he knows the reviewers who count, and he has provided the definitive roadmap for getting to them. He  breaks the process down into very do-able steps, warns you away from the pitfalls and rookie mistakes, and doesn't waste your time. At 74 pages, there is no pointless verbiage to slog through, no unnecessary autobiographical nonsense. You get nothing but the facts. If you have a book to sell, four bucks is a small amount to invest in this kind of solid insider information.Disclaimer: I know Theo Rogers very well as an active member of the Amazon reviewer community. However, I purchased the book from Amazon and did not accept a free review copy. I intend to pass the book along to a friend who is soon to self-publish a memoir about his two tours of duty in Afghanistan.