Indie Book Reviewers Post Your Blog Link Here!

[Christy Pinheiro]

As an author and book reviewer myself, I've had a difficult time getting book reviews for my self-published books. Some reviewers are even downright rude about it. So I started an online list of reviewers that accept self-published books. The best of these is POD People and The Midwest Book Review, both of them are highly respected and the "Big Fish" in the self-publishing world. Neither accepts a fee to review. None of the reviewers on the list below are fee-charging.

So far I've spent about 80 hours (now) hundreds of hours putting this list together. Every reviewer on this list has agreed to accept (or focuses exclusively on) Self-Published Books. Contact me if you want to add a reviewer to the list. It has to be a reviewer that is currently accepting submissions.

http://www.stepbystepselfpublishing.net

Please post your blog link if you are willing to review indies and small press authors. I will contact you and you can also be included in the small press "yellow pages" that we are working on. I've uploaded the reviewer questions in a word doc. 

[Chrystal @SnowdropDreamsof Books]

Hey guys,

I would be up to reading self published books. I'm actually reading my friends book right now to help him before he tries to get it published. I don't mind at all. I will accept ebooks, but prefer to read an actual printed book as it's better on my eyes.

I'm an eclectic reader - I love YA, but am also able to read romance, mystery, fantasy, sci-fi, chicklit. I read pretty much anything - I will at least give it a try once. :)

You can add me to the list - http://snowdropdreams.blogspot.com/
Chrystal

[Christy Pinheiro]

Thanks Chrystal; Snowdrop Dreams of Books has been added. You can check your listing here:

http://www.stepbystepselfpublishing.net/

If you want to change your submission guidelines, just let me know.

[Christy Pinheiro]

The site is officially at 93 NO-FEE Indie reviewers! Now that we've added so many this month, we're on a roll-- please help us get to 100 indie reviewers on the site! Let's help some indie authors out!

http://www.stepbystepselfpublishing.net/

[Marty Shaw]

Feel free to add me to the list. While I do review books that hit the shelves the 'traditional' way, my main focus is on self-pub and indie authors.

Dark Wyrm Reads... because friends don't let friends read sucky books.

[Christy Pinheiro]

Marty, Dark Wyrm Reads has been added to the site; thank you!

[Ashley Barnett Smith]

I will review your books if you review mine for free and post it at LuLu product review site.
Ashley Barnett Smith.

[Elle Benedict]

I am new to book blogging. Very new, actually. So long as no one minds that I'm still green on the blogging front (not on the reviewing front) I do not have any issues with reviewing self-published books that meet my review guidelines.

http://www.wooksy.com

[Christy Pinheiro]

Hi Elle; I added your blog (very cute, by the way) to the list. YOu can check it to see if the listing and submission guidelines are accurate.

Thanks!

http://www.stepbystepselfpublishing.net/

[Edna Tollison]

Do you write Christian fiction if so please add me to your list I do reviews for a lot of Publishing companies

Thanks
Edna

[Damon Galeassi]

Edna,
I have written what would be considered Christian Fiction. It is currently available only on Kindle as an E-book, but the final edited version will be ready in hard-cover soon. I would be extremely grateful if not proud to have you give it a review. It's called "God's Only Daughter". Growing up in Catholic School, I had a lot of fun with this one. When two holy Sisters follow a heavenly chorus into the forest, they are led to discover a little girl playing with a bear. They devise a plan to rescue the child, and once done, drag her back to the circa WWII convent/orphanage. In front of a doubting Mother-Superior, the child recognizes the icons of Jesus on the walls, and insists that He is her brother....
Told alternately from the point of view of one of the Sisters and that of the child, the book is a carefully constructed light read. Faith, redemption, and man's tendency to rationalize the miraculous are all thematic in this 'fun with nuns' tale.
Please send your contact info to [e-mail] so I can get you a copy when the time comes.
Yours,
Damon Galeassi

[Damon Galeassi]

$500 for a book review is insane! There are just too many (old school) newspapers, books, amd magazines out there. Even if you only have an E-book, it would be cheaper to have 100 hard-copies produced for mail outs. I am disgusted with predatory online publishing 'helpers', such as Iuniverse for one, who is little more than a phone room trying to get hold of your credit card number. LOL.

[Christy Pinheiro]

Hi Damon; there are a few review sites that charge for a review. Clarion is one such site. However, all the bloggers on my list do not charge a fee to review books. That doesn't mean you will get a positive review. It just means that they don't charge you to review your book.

IUniverse is a vanity press, so it's very different from a reviewer. That's a whole different ball 'o wax.