Author Struggles: Gaining Reviews

There’s no end to the struggles we face as a writer and author. We struggle to learn all the aspects of craft, we struggle with self-doubt, and we struggle to get published. One other struggle we’ll likely deal with sometime during our writing career is gathering reviews for our books.

In the old days, a review of our book might have been simply an ego-thing, proof that someone read our story. Now, however, with Amazon’s algorithms, the quality, quantity, and recency of reviews can affect wh...