Liking, Sharing, Tagging, and Reviewing Your Favorite Books

A lot of readers don’t realize just how important the reviews they leave on retail sites are for authors. Reviews are GOLD. Why? Because your opinion matters to other readers. But a lot of readers are put off by the prospect because they think it’s going to take them a lot of time or they’re going to have to write a lengthy synopsis of everything that happened in the book. The fact is that leaving a review is easy as pie and won’t take you more than a minute or two!

Listen, it’s great when folks write in-depth reviews, but leaving just a short blurb is great, too. Think of it this way: if you got on an elevator with someone you know and only had a quick ride between floors to tell them about this book you loved, what would you say? That’s what you’d write in your review. Short, sweet, and from the heart works just fine. “I read this book and LOVED IT!” There, that’s a review!

In addition, most retail sites want you to leave a star rating. How many stars you leave is entirely up to you, and everyone has their own way to do it.

On top of that, liking, sharing, and tagging books on the retail sites and across social media platforms is a huge help to authors! Again, that sounds like it’ll take you foreveer to do, but it’s really only a couple clicks.

So when you finish your next read, please do the author a huge favor and leave a quick review and then let others know what you thought!

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