In my never-ending quest to get good marketing value for my time, I have decided to do some guest book reviews for SageFire. It is a good deal for me–I get read an enjoyable book, and then write about it! Sagefire has very specific guidelines for reviewers, which actually makes the job a little easier, because you know exactly how much space to allocate to each section of the review.
I found the whole thing straightforward and a lot of fun, and I plan to contribute as often as I can.
To see my review visit:
http://sagefire.pencraft.biz/mar08/Review.School_Cowboy.html
You may recognize the book. It is the work of talented author Susan Shay, a fellow blogger on WordPress.
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March 27, 2008 at 11:57 am
Wow! Wonderful review!!! And such a good job with the synopsis.
I used part of the review on my blog. And all the stuff about you, including your picture. Hope that’s okay.
Thank you so much! You’re the best.
Susan
March 27, 2008 at 12:08 pm
My pleasure! It wasn’t difficult to give your book a good review. It practically wrote itself!
Sagefire distributes their reviews to libraries and other websites, so you will hopefully get quite a bit of exposure from it. (Me too…
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March 29, 2008 at 12:45 am
Do they review print books or online books?
Oh yeah — In an upcoming chapter of NMAI, one of the characters is in a university English Lit class. How would you like to be the namesake for one of the other students? Like a walk-on cameo. Right now you’re part of a very supportive group, like my own little literary circle, so it would be kind of cool to have everyone show up in one chapter to say something about literature. Sound fun?
March 29, 2008 at 8:50 am
They review both kinds of books. Basically there is a list of books that they have been requested to review, and they get to them one at a time.
I’d be delighted to make a walk-on appearance in your book. I am surprised though because I thought you had actually finished the writing part of it?
March 29, 2008 at 9:03 am
Oh, it’s finished. I’m just changing the scene because it’s more fun this way.
March 29, 2008 at 10:14 am
Well don’t be surprised if a place or character named Gavin turns up in one of my books sometime. I actually named a lot of the places in Heart of Hythea after my daughter’s friends. They get such a huge kick out of it.
March 30, 2008 at 11:29 am
That would be kind of cool, actually. To make the name more fantasy-oriented, you could spell it Gavyn.
March 31, 2008 at 9:06 am
Actually I spelled it Gawain, which is the original old English spelling. Congratulations, you are now the navigator of the good ship “Briny Leviathan.”
April 1, 2008 at 2:01 am
Well, that’s certainly appropriate, considering the Camelot themes in NMAI and the poem I wrote in the Poetry page — I like it!