Lynn’s just put her Orion’s Childen/Time books up on Amazon. She needs reviews. She doesn’t have any. These are really good books. Very good books! Please go help her out, those of you who’ve read them—or buy some! On Closed Circle she gets it all; on Amazon, of course they take a cut, but if her sales and reviews rise over there, so does her visibility which can get other sales, so take your pick and go help if possible! She’d so much appreciate it!
LYNN ABBEY needs your help…
by CJ | Aug 27, 2012 | Journal | 10 comments
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A bonus for buying it from Amazon is getting the “verified Amazon purchase” review which holds a little more weight with some shoppers. I know it does with me at least. When people see that tag they know for sure you at least bought the book you are reviewing.
Thanks for that, sweetbo!
I understand that some scoundrels are selling Amazon reviews…they’ve got a number of people with a number of accounts and are paying them for every review. I’m glad Amazon is finally addressing some of the problems of operating mostly by ‘bots.
I read that article today too. I can only shake my head.
I think it is perfectly fine to ask readers to review stuff. Some of us maybe just didn’t think of it without a nudge but would gladly do it. I even think sending free books to reviewers in the hopes they pull it off their stack read it and share their honest opinion is fine too. No money exchanging hands and it performs a service to those who really do need people to point them in the right direction.
That article though… I already dig a little deeper into reviewers before a purchase (like clicking their user name and seeing the pattern of their other reviews) just to see the behavior of that reviewer if they stand out to me. This is just going to make me more paranoid.
Funny story — we have a couple thai restaurants in town that keep sabotaging each other’s reviews online. Be it review sites or the newspaper message boards…I can tell it is their rival restaurant trashing them by the patterns that keep showing up in their reviews and bad English. It’s hilarious.
I will gladly review these books, I loved them and am hoping for more.
I bought the ebooks from Closed Circle, but haven’t yet read them. I’ll bump the first to the gop of my reading list. I was very glad to see them from Closed Circle, as the concept sounded very good. Once I’ve read each, I’ll put up a brief review.
(Off-Topic: There’s a new book by Mark Garrish due late November on EPUB3 which I have on pre-order.)
Speaking of Amazon reviews…
http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B004FTGJUW/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
Sometimes the product does call for some creative writing.
ROFLMAO…
I’m horrible at writing book reviews. It must be the latent terror of having to do book reports in junior high school. I would read the book, but hated to have to write anything about it.
I downloaded all 4 books earlier this summer and spent quite a bit of time on the deck reading them. The first book was a little hard to get into, but once I started to grasp Lynn’s style of writing, it went smoothly. I think I finished all four books in about 2 weeks (slow reader). I’d have to go back and skim through them again if I’m to write any kind of coherent review.
One thing that struck me as humorous. Jane did the cover art for all 4 books, and each one of them reminds me of the frontal view of the “Doomsday Machine” from the original Star Trek series, sandworms from Dune not so much. It just seems to appear to be a very large mouth waiting to swallow anyone foolish enough to cross its “event horizon”. Please note that I only see the cover art in miniature, so I can’t judge a cover by the book.
Joe, Go to Jane’s blog (Harmonies of the Net). She has larger size copies of the new covers.
Actually, Joe, Lynn did the old covers, and those new covers are by Don Maitz. 😆