Author Archives: Simon Royle
IndieView with indie reviewer, Tomes of the Soul
“Knowing your genre is the key thing when seeking reviews. You need to know who your target audience is and where they look for reviews, and target those sites. When looking at potential review sites look at how often they post, where they post, their layout, the genre(s) they review and which books they give what ratings to. This can provide you with a good indication of whether a review from that site will be of use to you in promoting your work.”
Tome Keeper 26 July 2011 Continue reading
IndieView with Sarah of Sift Book Reviews
“… the philosophy of Sift: we started to help readers, not writers. Which means we’re not going to pull punches if we don’t like a book. But it also means that the readers can really take our reviews at face value when we say we love a book.”
Sarah ~ Sift Reviews 25 June 2011 Continue reading
IndieView with Sally Saphire of Bibrary Bookslut
“When blogging, I intentionally avoid using any sort of rating system. I don’t see a lot of value in an arbitrary number – I think the details are what matter, and are what will sway my decision to read (or not to read).”
Sally Saphire 19 June 2011 Continue reading
New Book Release: Broken, by author, David H. Burton
Three days before her twenty-fourth birthday, Katherine Gregory receives a letter from her deceased mother. It details a faery curse in which the eldest child in each generation will die in their twenty-fifth year. Continue reading
IndieView with David Gaughran, author of, Transfection
“I’m a big fan of old-school sci-fi, and how they would riff on a future technological advancement and show all the terrible and amazing consequences it could have while still saying something about today’s world.”
~ David Gaughran 2 June 2011 Continue reading
Indieview with reviewer Debra Martin, at Two Ends of the Pen
“I think people love to get lost in a story and forgot their own problems for a while. Reading can transport you to so many wonderful places and meet great characters. I would be terribly sad if for some reason, I couldn’t read anymore.”
~ Debra Martin 28 May 2011 Continue reading
Indieview with BigAl, of BigAl’s Books and Pals Reviews
“When I was making the initial plans for the blog this was my biggest struggle. I seriously considered not including ratings at all. Assigning a number to something that can’t be measured seems wrong when you consider how subjective such a rating has to be. I’ve personally made many purchases based on one and two star reviews that described something I would like that the reviewer didn’t.”
Big Al 14 May 2011 BigAl’s Books and Pals Continue reading
Indieview with Indie Reviewer Adam Bourke of Review Haven
Adam has a really cool looking website, at Review Haven: Fantasy and Sci-Fi, and reviews, mainly as the title implies SF and Fantasy. A little bit unfortunately (coz his reviews are really good) he only reviews print books at this time. Here is his Indieview… Continue reading
Thin Blood, by Vicki Tyley, now available in audio format
For those of you who read while driving and with a pair of earphones – here’s a treat…
Vicki Tyley, bestselling mystery and suspense writer from DownUnder, has just released Thin Blood as an audio book. Here’s the details:
Narrated by Basil Sands
Running time: 7 hours, 38 minutes | Unabridged
Produced by Perfect Voices
Price: $34.95 $12.99 (save 63%)