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Here’s a site touted as the most followed site by writers. I found it because I get emails regularly from a publish-yourself publisher who posts her work. I don’t use the publisher, but I have learned a lot from their various articles. I have to study this site closer myself and follow-up. Getting professional-type reviews without paying a fee is very difficult, especially for the self-published author.
If you want to laugh…I sent an email to the New York Times to get my book on their long list of requested reviews. It’s been a couple of months and I’m still waiting.
I’ve sent a PDF copy to a reviewer living in Germany. It could be months before he got to it. I’m hoping this will be the one worth waiting for.
In the meantime, I have a couple of friends with professional attitudes whose reviews will certainly prove worthy.
It’s the wait that’s stressful. Amazon requires so many reviews, at least twenty-five, before anything begins to happens. I’m still counting down…slowly, very slowly.
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