HOW TO HELP WRITERS IF YOU LIKE THEIR WORK

  

 

HOW TO HELP WRITERS IF YOU LIKE THEIR WORK

Do you have a favorite author? Are you a writer who wants to do a favor for other writers–and maybe they'll do a favor for you?   

 

Here's how:

 

• Write an Amazon review. Go to Amazon.com and search the book you recently (or a long time ago!) read. Click through to its Amazon catalog page. Scroll down below the ads and the editorial reviews and product details to Customer Reviews, and then scroll a little farther to REVIEW THIS BOOK.

• You don't have to have bought the book from Amazon.

• They may ask you to set up a reviewer's account. You only have to do it once, and you can stay anonymous if you choose or make up a handle.

• Give the book as many stars as you reasonably can. I rarely review books I can't give five. Inflated grades? For sure, but this is about publicizing books we enjoyed and admired.

• Write a review. Short is fine. In fact, short is probably better than long on Amazon. You can reuse the review on GoodReads and Barnes & Noble and anywhere else

• Don't use foul language. They won't publish a review if they don't like the words in it, and they can be heavy-handed. It's a 'bot "reading" the review, not a person.

 

You will be doing literature a favor, and all of us with books in print thank you in advance!