Joe Walter’s started his book review website, Independent Book Review, in 2018 after his extensive experience in publishing unearthed a need - a need for speed - no, I mean a need for Indy authors to get honest book reviews. His popular book review service has helped countless authors and readers as well. You see, his site is for readers, too, a community to help readers to learn about great books to read.

Now, he helps even more with his new book, The Truth About Book Reviews: An Insiders Guide to Getting and Using Reviews to Grow Your Readership. It is available NOW for pre-order and launches officially on July 10th.

Enjoy this interview where I ask everything from Joe’s tips on gathering book reviews to how he applies his creativity on writing his novel to creativity in book marketing. Joe is an example of the experts that I love to feature on the Get Your Book Seen and Sold Podcast - people who care about authors and provide reasonably priced solutions for them to give their books the best chance to be seen and sold. I thoroughly enjoyed his new book, The Truth About Book Reviews, gave it a rave review, and feel that it is the perfect resource to help authors with one of the most important aspects of successful book publishing - gathering book reviews, blurbs and endorsements.

Here are just some of the advice authors will find in the book:

* Sample book review request pitches, sample blurbs

* What to NEVER put in a book review pitch email subject line

* The three different kinds of book reviews

* Example of spreadsheet to keep track of pitches and results of your outreach

* Where to place your precious blurbs and reviews on your book’s Amazon page

Here is part of my blurb for what I am sure will be a best-selling resource for writers!

The Truth About Book Reviews is available for pre-sale today - launch date, July 10th!

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