Publicists: Book Reviews

As my publicist, Josh Williams, is busy on his end sending out galleys and making media connections in preparation for the release of my new book, Frederick Douglass for Kids, I’m on a mission!

I’m tracking down and hunting up mega blogs that review children’s books!

Why?

Because these blogs have big followers. 1000 people or more. Their followers are eager to read about the newest children’s books that their favorite blogger blogs about.

I know from experience that when one of my books got reviewed positively at one of these big blogs, the publisher saw sales of my book skyrocket that week.

So, I try to spend a little bit of my time looking here and looking there and networking with my writer friends to try to find these blogging sites. Then I dig around on the sites and look for the contact information for the person who reviews the books.

And then I e-mail the contact information on over to my publicist Josh!

Josh is collecting these in a list of contacts he’ll pursue after the book is published to hopefully land some great book reviews.

So while you’re waiting for your new book to come out, go ahead and go on a search, too. Look for mega blogs that post reviews about the kind of book you wrote. Then either contact them yourself and ask if they’d be interested in reviewing your book on their site, or send their contact info on over to your publicist. It’s a great way to increase exposure for the release of your book!