An Easy Peasy Way to Post Amazon Reviews
By Lois W. Stern,
My #TheNewBookReview associate and
Your #TheNewBookReview contact
Our guest post on this #SharingwithWriters today is my associate who makes my other blog, tick. She suggested to me in our frequent text messages that an author chosen for her inclusion in one of the books in the anthology series she founded and publishes mentioned that he thinks there are more authors who don’t know how to do their fellow authors (and themselves!) a favor by leaving reviews on Amazon! So, I conned Lois into sharing simple instruction with visitors and subscribers to this blog, indeed I both conned and begged her to do it. Be sure to read her credit line below that covers some of the other free and massively successful things she does and recommends to help her battery of anthology contributors as well as authors in general including her value-added contests for placement in her anthologies. I did say, FREE, didn’t I?
Posting Amazon Reviews the Easy Way
Lately Amazon has nearly hidden that magic spot for posting a book review, but here's a simple way to get directly to it:
1. Begin by typing AMAZON.COM into your browser.
2. Find a search bar that looks like this:
3. Click on the little arrow for the drop-down menu on the left side of the bar until you come to the word “BOOKS.”
4. Once there, type the title of the book you are planning to review.
5. You will then see an image of the book on the left and a row of stars on the right. It will look like this:
(The number on the left indicates the rating average of the title you chose. The average rating for this book was 5 stars.The number on the right indicates the number of reviews this book received. So far this book received 6 reviews and all of them were rated five stars!
6. Click on those stars and the following window pops up:
7. There you are! Click on SEE CUSTOMER REVIEWS at the bottom of the graph.
7. There you are! Click on SEE CUSTOMER REVIEWS at the bottom of the graph.
8. Next click on the "Write a Customer review” prompt in the oval bar below bar and you’re good to go.
Here are a couple ways you will benefit from writing reviews:
From an author’s viewpoint, it’s really all about learning more about our industry, getting ideas to motivate and inspire, and to network with other authors. The process will introduce you to influencers and be one part of your own path to influencing others! Increase the effectiveness of each of your reviews by sending a thank you that includes a link to wherever you publish it, on Amazon, on your blog, at Goodreads. That Amazon doesn’t allow that is a mistaken rumor. You can find a quotation to that effect directly from Amazon in Carolyn’s How to Get Great Book Reviews Frugally and Ethically.
