Book Reviews, Self-Publishing Book Review of the Week

Get your Self-Published Book Review Posted

If you are a self-published author and have a review for your book that you would like posted online, we can help!  In the interest of helping self-published authors find success in publishing, we will post a weekly book review of a self-published book. 

To submit your review, please send it to selfpublishingadvice@gmail.com with a .jpg image of your cover.  Self Publishing Advice will post your review and cover image on our blog. 

If you do not have reviews for your book yet, here are some blog posts that may help give you some ideas on how to obtain them:

Getting your Self-Published Book Reviewed
Soliciting Book Reviews for your Self-Published Book
More on Getting your Self-Published Book Reviewed
Book Review Leads for the Self-Published Author

Karl Schroeder and Kelly Schuknecht
https://selfpublishingadvice.wordpress.com

Choosing a Publisher, Self-Publishing

More Copyright Information for the Self-Publishing Author

Copyright infringement is not a pleasant topic. Some self-publishing authors find themselves in trouble without even knowing it, by doing something as innocent as including the lyrics from their favorite songs in their book.

Music is one of the most protected copyrightable works; infringement of copyright can carry heavy fines for which the author is responsible. If you are going to use the lyrics from a song in your book, you will need to have permission from the original copyright holder. This includes cases where you are only using a stanza or two and sometimes even if you are using anything more than a single line.

Only song lyrics created and first published prior to 1923 are in the Public Domain in the United States. If the song was created after that, you will need permission to use it (or parts of it) in your work.

There are two great resources on the Internet for finding the rights holders for most music and song lyrics, from the two leading music entities, ASCAP and BMI, respectively:

http://www.ascap.com/ace/search.cfm?mode=search
 http://www.bmi.com/licensing

Book Reviews

Christian Book Review Lead for your Self Published Book

Does your self-published book fit into the Christian category? If so, here is a site you may want to check out to get your book reviewed:

christianbookreviews.net

Good luck and have fun!
Kelly Schuknecht
selfpublishingadvice.wordpress.com

Book Promotion

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So many authors can benefit from this type of knowledge, as the publishing industry has changed so much. Even if you are signed with a top Publisher such as a Simon and Schuster or a Wiley or Random House, unless your are Deepak Chopra or Wayne Dyer, you are going to have to do your own publicity.

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