The ebook one is marginally better, so maybe the author shot her own version to make a print cover. But most legit e-publishers will do the POD version themselves…
I thought it was a rock he’s casually walking up the side of, with an apparently uninjured woman over his shoulders.
Naaman Brown
8 years ago
Hideous negativity comment: I think it hurts a book to have multiple review blurbss posted from a single, known paid-review service flagged by Writer Beware and Absolute Write as a vanity book review service. It would be more credible to be blurbless and reviewed by relatives, friends and coworkers.
In the reviews of Readers’ Favorites I saw by authors, it is treated as worse; they state the free review offer can take forever but can be expedited for $59.
(By what I have found, Kirkus Indie will charge you for an independent review with no guarantee what the reviewer will say and you have the option of suppressing a negative review. Theoretically you can end up paying to have your vanity balloon pricked. Personally I think they have diluted the Kirkus Review brand, but that’s just my opinion from hanging around the public library for 55 years and working 34 years at Kingsport Press. In my not so humble opinion, for an indie ebook an honest Amazon review by Yer Aunt Edna is worth more than any paid review or award service deal. Four reviews all by Readers’ Favorite does not sway me.)
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The ebook one is marginally better, so maybe the author shot her own version to make a print cover. But most legit e-publishers will do the POD version themselves…
“The Street Called Straight” is a famous street in Damascus, Syria, not Pakistan as the map indicates.
I could mention that Gay Street is a famous street in Knoxville, and is even further from Pakistan (rimshot).
Is that a fallen tree, or have his legs sunk into the Pakistani street called straight?
I thought it was a rock he’s casually walking up the side of, with an apparently uninjured woman over his shoulders.
Hideous negativity comment: I think it hurts a book to have multiple review blurbss posted from a single, known paid-review service flagged by Writer Beware and Absolute Write as a vanity book review service. It would be more credible to be blurbless and reviewed by relatives, friends and coworkers.
So Readers’ Favorite is another Kirkus?
In the reviews of Readers’ Favorites I saw by authors, it is treated as worse; they state the free review offer can take forever but can be expedited for $59.
(By what I have found, Kirkus Indie will charge you for an independent review with no guarantee what the reviewer will say and you have the option of suppressing a negative review. Theoretically you can end up paying to have your vanity balloon pricked. Personally I think they have diluted the Kirkus Review brand, but that’s just my opinion from hanging around the public library for 55 years and working 34 years at Kingsport Press. In my not so humble opinion, for an indie ebook an honest Amazon review by Yer Aunt Edna is worth more than any paid review or award service deal. Four reviews all by Readers’ Favorite does not sway me.)