How to become a book
reviewer
Becoming a book reviewer is a fairly easy process. The first requirement to becoming a
book reviewer is:
-- enjoying or liking
to read.
Passed that one?
Next,
-- decide what genres
of books you want to review? Are
there any genres that you specifically don’t want to review?
For example, take me, I don’t do horror genre (the gory
violent type) because I don’t care for the movies, so I know I wouldn't want to
read the books.
-- Can you write
fairly decently? I mean, can you
manage to string together at least 5-10 sentences about a book you have
read? And this includes using proper
punctuation and grammar and spelling.
If you have passed all of the above, then this leads us to
your next step on your way to becoming a book reviewer.
-- Where will you
post or share your reviews? Me, I
have a blog where I do that. Here’s a
link to one of my book review blog posts.
I like and use blogger.
They have a wide variety of templates to choose from and it’s fairly
easy to set up. Here’s the sign in link:
Now if you’re going to use blogger, you will need a google
account. If you have a gmail email
address, then you have a google account.
Just go to the above link and sign in using your gmail log in, and you
will be on your way to creating your blog.
If you don’t have a google account, just click on the ‘sign up’ link in
the upper right-hand corner.
Another option is to create a facebook page and share your
reviews there in the form of page posts or notes created by your page. Here’s the link to create a page on
facebook. Please note that you must be
logged in to facebook to do this.
Plus there are lots of other free places on the internet
where you can create a blog. So you will
need to set up a place to post your reviews.
Okay, if you’re with me so far, then now you need to . . .
Find books to review.
This is probably the easiest part. There are tons of authors out there today
seeking reviews of their books. Here are
some places to find them:
-- a facebook group that I belong to called: Review Seekers
-- free kindle or nook or Smashwords ebooks - There are tons
of these to be had on these websites.
Smashwords free ebooks
Barnes and Noble free ebooks for Nook
my own Kindle facebook interest list which will clue you in
to tons of free kindle books
Sony reader website free books
https://ebookstore.sony.com/category/free-ebooks
https://ebookstore.sony.com/category/free-ebooks
And you will need something to read ebooks on. This is easily solved too, as there are free
apps you can download to read ebooks on.
Barnes and Noble nook apps
Amazon Kindle free apps
Adobe ereader app
Sony reader app
So now you have your reader apps, and you links to find free
books. You have set up where you are
going to post your reviews at. You’re
all set to become a book reviewer.
Something else you need to do is decide how authors can
contact you. You need to have an email
address to give them, because after you get established as a reviewer, many
authors will email you a word file or a pdf file of their book for you to
review. I let authors contact me about
reviews via my book review page.
But where do you post and share the links for your reviews
at? Here’s one place:
Book PReview Central
And here’s another place:
JD’s Leisure Zone
Plus you can share the links on your own timeline. Facebook and the internet are just full of
places to share your book review links.
Now, there’s one more thing you need to do. Drop by this note by the page Book PReview Central,
and add your reviewer info to the note.
This will help authors find you.
Book Reviewers List
So you’re all set.
Got any more questions? Feel free
to message me via my website or my facebook writer’s page.
facebook writer page
my website
