Want to wish me a happy birthday? Request a free copy of my essay collection Sex and Cupcakes and review it by November 10th
My birthday is coming up next month; I turn 39 on November 10th. What do I want for my birthday? Well, on a personal note, I'm getting exactly what I want which is a date to a restaurant in my town that serves amazing Italian and Japanese food. Not fusion, just each done wonderfully. I usually order Japanese food and get to eat off my boyfriend's plate.
Professionally, what I'd love are at least 39 reviews (I'm aiming for 100!) of the first book written all by me, Sex and Cupcakes, which comes out October 16th from Thought Catalog Books. I'll be able to reveal the cover soon (it's also the first book with my photo on the cover!) and what I'm asking right now is pretty easy. The ebook is around 20,000 words and I'm looking for fabulous early reviewers who'd like a copy now and then you promise to post your review on Amazon.com (and anywhere else you'd like if you're so inclined, but Amazon is the one I'm asking you to post on) by November 10th, my birthday. It can say anything you like as long as it's clear you've read the book.
What to do
1. Email me at rachelkb at gmail.com with "Review" in the subject line. Include your Amazon profile URL OR a link to a review on Amazon.com clearly written by you. (This ensures that I know you're eligible to leave a review on Amazon.com because you've made a purchase from them. Sorry, but in order for me to give away my work, I need to be getting something in exchange, and if I don't know that Amazon will post your review, I can't send it to you.)
2. Read the ebook I will send you.
3. Any time from October 16 to November 10th, leave your review on Amazon.com. I'll send you a reminder email on the 16th. It can be long, short, focused on one essay or all of them. The only thing it can't have is curses, so even though "Fuck" is in the title of one essay, you cannot use that in the review or Amazon will reject it.
4. Enjoy my thanks!
I'll be deleting this post soon (sometime this week, once I've received up to 39 review requests) so please request your copy now if you're interested. If you've enjoyed the essays in the Best Sex Writing series I edited for a few years, you will probably appreciate these pieces. This book is a big step for my career, because it's all written by me (unlike the anthologies I edit), I make more in royalties per book sold than I do from my other books, I'm working with a new publisher, Thought Catalog Books, and it's launching around the same time as my new weekly sex column (more on that soon) which means I get to do more of my true writing love, nonfiction. All of these add up to: your review means a LOT! Amazon reviews, especially for an ebook like this, can mean the difference between making a few hundred dollars and making thousands of dollars. (Tim Grahl has an excellent post quoting an Amazon employee emphasizing that reviews are the key to selling books on the site.) This matters beyond just that specific amount of money, but extends to future opportunities. If this book does well, it can help lead me to new books and projects, and conversely, if it doesn't, it may hinder future prospects. This has been an incredibly challenging year and the message I internalized was diversify, diversify, diversify, so this is my step one in doing that. So if you want to support my writing in an easy way that shouldn't take too much of your time, please consider doing this.
Here's what's in it, a mix of older and brand new essays all about sex, cupcakes, politics, dating, tattoos, love, body image, monogamy, a career in sexuality, technology and more:
Introduction: Writing What You Know When You Write About Sex
I Have Trouble With Orgasms
I’m Pro-Choice and I Fuck
What Kind of Submissive Are You?
Wearing My Tattooed Heart On My Sleeve
My Boyfriend’s Fat
I Don’t Want or Need an App to Measure My Sex Life
Sex and Cupcakes
Champagne Sex
Monogamishmash
Professionally, what I'd love are at least 39 reviews (I'm aiming for 100!) of the first book written all by me, Sex and Cupcakes, which comes out October 16th from Thought Catalog Books. I'll be able to reveal the cover soon (it's also the first book with my photo on the cover!) and what I'm asking right now is pretty easy. The ebook is around 20,000 words and I'm looking for fabulous early reviewers who'd like a copy now and then you promise to post your review on Amazon.com (and anywhere else you'd like if you're so inclined, but Amazon is the one I'm asking you to post on) by November 10th, my birthday. It can say anything you like as long as it's clear you've read the book.
What to do
1. Email me at rachelkb at gmail.com with "Review" in the subject line. Include your Amazon profile URL OR a link to a review on Amazon.com clearly written by you. (This ensures that I know you're eligible to leave a review on Amazon.com because you've made a purchase from them. Sorry, but in order for me to give away my work, I need to be getting something in exchange, and if I don't know that Amazon will post your review, I can't send it to you.)
2. Read the ebook I will send you.
3. Any time from October 16 to November 10th, leave your review on Amazon.com. I'll send you a reminder email on the 16th. It can be long, short, focused on one essay or all of them. The only thing it can't have is curses, so even though "Fuck" is in the title of one essay, you cannot use that in the review or Amazon will reject it.
4. Enjoy my thanks!
I'll be deleting this post soon (sometime this week, once I've received up to 39 review requests) so please request your copy now if you're interested. If you've enjoyed the essays in the Best Sex Writing series I edited for a few years, you will probably appreciate these pieces. This book is a big step for my career, because it's all written by me (unlike the anthologies I edit), I make more in royalties per book sold than I do from my other books, I'm working with a new publisher, Thought Catalog Books, and it's launching around the same time as my new weekly sex column (more on that soon) which means I get to do more of my true writing love, nonfiction. All of these add up to: your review means a LOT! Amazon reviews, especially for an ebook like this, can mean the difference between making a few hundred dollars and making thousands of dollars. (Tim Grahl has an excellent post quoting an Amazon employee emphasizing that reviews are the key to selling books on the site.) This matters beyond just that specific amount of money, but extends to future opportunities. If this book does well, it can help lead me to new books and projects, and conversely, if it doesn't, it may hinder future prospects. This has been an incredibly challenging year and the message I internalized was diversify, diversify, diversify, so this is my step one in doing that. So if you want to support my writing in an easy way that shouldn't take too much of your time, please consider doing this.
Here's what's in it, a mix of older and brand new essays all about sex, cupcakes, politics, dating, tattoos, love, body image, monogamy, a career in sexuality, technology and more:
Introduction: Writing What You Know When You Write About Sex
I Have Trouble With Orgasms
I’m Pro-Choice and I Fuck
What Kind of Submissive Are You?
Wearing My Tattooed Heart On My Sleeve
My Boyfriend’s Fat
I Don’t Want or Need an App to Measure My Sex Life
Sex and Cupcakes
Champagne Sex
Monogamishmash
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