How to Get 1000+ Book Reviews | Self Published Book Reviews| Derek Murphy
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Getting about 25 book reviews before you start marketing is both essential and impossible, if you don't have a platform of fans (which is why you should build one first). In this video I talk about lots of book-review related issues... you should probably take notes.
I don't work very hard for my reviews but have 928 (I counted).
I'm setting a goal to have 1000+ reviews on at least 2 books by the end of 2020.
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Hey there - I'm Derek Murphy. I'm a fine artist who became a book cover designer, then started writing young adult scifi and fantasy. I've spent almost 20 years living abroad, have a PhD in comparative literature (revolutionary politics in Paradise Lost), and have been featured in CNN for renting castles to use as writing retreats. Although I'm not working with clients anymore, I've built a ton of resources to help indie authors write, design and publish bestselling books.
On this channel, I talk about writing, publishing and creating personal freedom with unconventional business strategies and providing value. My videos are unpolished and a little raw, because we travel full-time and I focus on content, not production quality.
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This is great information. Thanks. Please keep doing what you're doing, Derek.
Thanks for all these great ideas, Derek :)
You have the best information I've found on independent publishing. Thanks!
I appreciate the strength and creativity of your tips. Thank you for sharing!
There's a lot of valuable information for authors in this video. I was pleased to hear ideas about getting reviews without just giving books away. I also like Derek's approach when asking readers in a social way to help him with his goal.
I appreciate you giving us all of your knowledge!
Lots of fantastic info - especially appreciate the wording suggestions to create stronger asks - an appealing way to frame them so that they appeal to a reader / build community.
It's amazing how this guy actually open his mind and tell everybody what really he does and what we could do...normally all others youtubers just turn around very important points and they do not say HOW and WHAT they do pratically
I got more marketing information that I have from watching hundreds of hours of the more popular book marketing experts. Thanks
Beautiful Derek... You are soooo authentic and helpful! THANK YOU!
As usual, this is great content. Thanks, Derek for keeping me pointed in all the right directions. Julie Griffin
Such great information. Thanks Derek.
As an indie author with a full time job, marketing a book is a lot of work. My mailing list is only 10 people, so need to grow!!
I'm also glad that you suggested a threshold of 25 reviews before begin to market aggressively. It took me a while, but I just received my 50th review, so I better get to work on marketing.
Great info. Glad you're having success.
Great info all in one good video. It will be interesting to see how your pricing experiment turns out. I would expect that by the time you try it, your higher prices will attract more of your ideal readers, because you have so many good reviews, and people typically do equate price with quality (fortunately and unfortunately).
Derek, thank you for sharing so much valuable information. You are one of the good guys.
My pleasure!
You are a winner and on to the next one👍
Everytime I watch your videos, I start shuffling for a pen. Fantastic information, thank you!
Great honest tips.. Thanks!!
Excellent ideas. Thank you!
Very helpful. Thank you .
Hi Dr Murphy. I want to thank you for your website that allowed me to create the free 3D mockup covers for my new book.
Thanks for your sharing. I will use many of your suggestions.,
This is good shit. I'm glad it was recommended to me.
Thanks for the video. I'm relaunching a series I just got back from my publisher (that didn't sell well) and this was very helpful. Step 1: Get new covers.
What's the series? I'd like to check it out.
Ok...from now on I'm going to try perma free because I super need reviews. I had NEVER thought about doing it that way. Thank you.
I'd never heard of perma free. I'll try it when I release my 1st book soon. Hope you get some reviews.
Hi Dereck,
I have found your videos to be really informative. It has helped me to develop a more business-like approach to publishing. I am almost set to self-publish my first full-length novel.
I wonder if you could help me by outlining what you would recommend I focus on for a fantasy / folklore novel.
I'd appreciate any insight you could provide!
Keep doing the great videos!
Very informative video, as always! When you send out ARCs, is the book already out on Amazon for them to review, or do you have to send them an email on launch day reminding them to go review your book?
wow, thank you so much
Thank you very much for all the effort you put in for this TH-cam channel... If amazon removes a review for any reason do they let you know or just remove it?
"ask" is really all i've got.
Thanks for the great stuff you share Derek, please can you tell me what webcam or video recorder and mic are you using here it is good quality thanks
Most helpful for a lost soul
I went on a freebie kindle book spree not that long ago, bc I wanted to check out a bunch of authors I was unfamiliar with. They were different genres. I can see that being an advantage to putting your book up for free.
Yes but you can only sell your book for free, if enrolled in KDP select!! And I tried being on Kindle Unlimited for a year and got nothing
What do you think to avoid Select first months, just put 0.99 and distribute the book for free, so the People could actually review it straight on because they find it immediatly. The risk to distribute 2 week before the publication is that people sometimes forget to do it because it is not yet online...I am talking about very short books that could be read in three days
H Derek, I like the ideas promotional and otherwise, and I am one who values the importance of giveaways to your mailing list. A question though please, say I have a month's free book giveaway to my mailing list, and i have requested a review, since I am an indie publisher on Amazon, how can I get those reviews onto Amazon if that person hasn't purchased the book from Amazon? Thanks a lot, Michael
I find it interesting that you send people who are already subscribed to your list to Book Funnel. Is that simply because it makes the downloading simple for them? Does Mailchimp recognize they are already subscribed to your list?
This is helpful. I have been wondering about free vs paid books.
AmazonKDP sucks ass since Createspace and KDP merged. It's nearly frikkin impossible for me to update my books now.
Let's just cut to the chase.
"Content! Content! Content!"
If someone reads your book and likes it, they're going to just naturally want to tell someone. It's human nature. People like to share good things with friends.
When Amazon prompts the buyer for a review, and they really enjoyed your narrative, guess what? They'll take a couple minutes and do review.
Conversely, if your writing sucks, the buyer will regret spending their hard-earned money on your book. No review for you!
Derek...do you have a donation option via paypal where we can maybe send you few dollars to offer you a couple beers wherever you are in the world?
Team Golfwell does free book reviews > www.teamgolfwell.com/free-book-reviews.html
Do you have any suggestions if your book can only be available in print, and you can't do kindle?
You should still be able to offer it on instafreebie, or bookfunnel, build a list of targeted readers, and offer them a digital ARC copy (you can use the PDF you used for the print book).
Thanks for this! Would those work well for colouring books too (which is what I'm doing)?
Instafreebie and bookfunnel.
Dude, you spend too much time making your hair look like you don't spend any time on it at all.