Review Me, Baby

Getting your eBook reviewed is one of the easiest things you can do to help promote it. Reviews help in a number of ways:

1. They get your book up on sites around the internet, usually with links and purchase information.
2. If you get some good reviews, you can use some of the quotables for blurbs, either on a brag page in your book, on your website, or in your press kit. There are many places to post favorable reviews, once you have them.

Some warnings about eBook reviews:

1. Develop a thick skin now. If you're going to submit your eBook around for reviews, don't expect every reviewer to praise your book as a shining jewel in an otherwise dismal pile of ePublished tripe. It's not gonna happen. Your precious manuscript might get panned, no matter how brilliant it is. There is no accounting for taste, so be ready to let the bad ones roll off.
2. If you're spending a lot of time submitting your eBook for reviews, keep your budget in mind and remember how much time you said you'd spend on this stuff, and then spend it as wisely as you can. This may mean not submitting your book for review on every site listed here. Pick the best ones and go with those.

See more great advice on getting reviews from Karen.

And now, the moment you've all been waiting for: the list of eBook reviewers. I checked all of these when I posted them for validity. I also checked the Google page rank, which is listed to the left of each site to help you decide where to submit your eBook if you're under time constraints. If you see an error, please email me. The internet is an ever-changing beast and I'm sure I won't be able to keep up with everything. Along those same lines, if you have an eBook reviewer you've used and don't see here, email me or leave a comment (and, if possible, please include a link for the page with the submission instructions) and I will add it. Thanks! Enjoy.

6 Absolute Write - submission email at bottom of page
6 Authorlink
6 The Romance Reader - click email link in left column to submit
5 All About Romance Novels
5 Books 'n' Bytes
5 BookReview.com - submission must be in Palm format
5 Coffee Time Romance
5 eBook-Reviews.net
5 ForeWord Magazine
5 KnowBetter.com
5 MyShelf.com
5 NewAndUsedBooks.com
5 Nights And Weekends
5 Romance Designs
5 Romance Junkies
5 Romance Reviews Today - Request a Review link halfway down page
5 Romantic Times
5 The Best Reviews
5 The Compulsive Reader
5 Wild Child Publishing
4 Affaire de Coeur - via postal mail only, required 4 months prior to publication
4 All Books Review - click Pick A Reviewer from sidebar, then scroll down for review request email address
4 Alternative-Read.com
4 A Romance Review
4 Authors After Dark
4 Cocktail Reviews
4 eCataromance.com
4 Fallen Angel Reviews - scroll down for email links for review requests
4 Fresh Fiction - E-books and .pdf format must be discussed and approved prior to sending.
4 Gotta Write Network
4 Huntress Reviews - email halfway down page
4 Just Erotic Romance Reviews
4 MyRomanceStory.com - instructions at bottom of page
4 Novelspot - submission email halfway down page
4 Road to Romance
4 Romance News Magazine - submission instructions in left column
4 Romance Reader at Heart
4 Roses & Thorns - "If you'd like us to consider your book for review contact BAQuinn@aol.com."
4 Scribes World - closed to submissions until Spring '07, click Request a Review near the bottom
4 Sensual Romance - instructions for authors near bottom
4 Sime~Gen
4 The Romance Readers Connection - Request a Review email link at bottom of page
3 Author's Choice Reviews
3 CK2S Kwips and Kritiques
3 Enchanted Ramblings - email for submissions at bottom of page
3 EscapeToRomance.com
3 Fiction Forum - not currently accepting submissions
3 In The Library Reviews
3 JoyfullyReviewed.com
3 Night Owl Romance - email address for submissions listed
3 Once Upon A Romance
3 Realms of Love - email Scarlet
3 Rites of Romance Reviews - email address for submissions listed
3 Sensual Reads and Reviews
2 In The Library Reviews
2 My Book Cravings - review request form at bottom of page
2 Romance At Heart - request a review link in left column
2 Romantic Observer - submission instructions under Publishers & Authors heading
2 The Romance Studio
2 TwoLipsReviews.com
1 Mirage Romance Reviews
1 Red Roses for Authors - email address for submissions in right menu bar
0 Authors of Romance and All Genres
0 Black Butterfly Review Group - submit by mail only
0 Book Binge - submission email address top left
0 Digigirl's Library - paranormal romance only, click Contact Us
0 Sweetness and Light
0 The Long and the Short of It - click Request a Review

You might also try Book Connector. They've got a free service that lists compatible reviewer sites when you enter your book's information. I tried it and it seems to work really well!

Sonja Foust
Author of LOVE IN SHADOW (The Wild Rose Press)