What We Offer
Book Reviews
City Book Review is the managing company for the following brands, which are geared towards helping avid readers find their next favorite book and to authors or publicists looking to get their book reviewed.
San Francisco Book Review
Manhattan Book Review
Seattle Book Review
Tulsa Book Review
Kids’ BookBuzz
Author Services
Maybe you recently published a book or decided to get some help increasing sales with marketing a book you put out awhile ago. If you’re new to the self-publishing game, you’ll be required to wear several hats as you market and distribute your book. We’re here to guide you through the process.
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Order a Book Review
We have been offering book reviews since 2008 and have reviewed more than 30,000 books since then. Because we receive such a high volume of books (last year, we received more than 4,600), we created our Sponsored Review program for authors and publicists who want to guarantee that we will review their book by a certain date. As with all of our reviews, we do everything in our power to make sure each book gets to the right reviewer.
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Where You’ve Seen Us
Since our inception in 2008, we have reviewed more than 30,000 books! Here are only a sampling of publishers we work with — from large and small publishers to independently published books.
You’re in good hands!
Book Marketing Overview
Sales and marketing of your book takes more than just listing it for sale on Amazon or other retail outlets. A well-rounded sales strategy includes PR and SEO (search engine optimization), marketing, sales outreach, and social media. Each part of your sales plan works with these four elements to help find new readers, convince them to purchase your book, and helps you stay in touch so they’ll buy each new book you write in the future.
We can help you with all of this.
Resources for Authors
You’ll find these recent articles to be a bevy of information to you as an author. Most of the articles are written by seasoned publicists who have been working in the book industry for a very long time. You just can’t beat free advice! Archived articles may be found on the top menu under Resources.
How to Secure an Author Blurb
As a first-time, indie, or even veteran author, the task of requesting and securing blurbs can be a daunting one. Putting your book baby out there for other authors to see takes immense courage and confidence in your work. That being said, it’s no doubt that blurbs...
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Facebook Isn’t Showing Your Posts? Here’s What to Do About It.
12 Ways to Market Your Book (Despite the Facebook Apocalypse) You may have noticed that your posts on Facebook aren’t getting as much traction as they used to—epecially the important posts promoting your book. Yikes. It’s what marketing pros are calling “Facebook...
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The 11 Fake Truisms Hurting Authors & Publishers
I am fed up with hearing how some authors, publishers, distributors, and literary agents operate under wrongful assumptions — or, worse — feed the ignorance of others by spewing bad advice. Let’s try to clear up the myths, misconceptions, or downright lies that fill...
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Does Publicity Matter?
You’ve heard the old saying, “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” The same goes for books. There are more than 300,000 (new titles and editions) books published each year. So, if you aren’t telling anyone about your...
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A Longtime Book Publicist Shares Secrets—Including the One Thing Every Author Should Know —About PR
What publicists do has mystified many an author and publisher. Professional book publicist MaryGlenn McCombs sheds some light on the topic of book PR.
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Building Your Brand With Book Blogger Outreach
As any author knows, getting attention from the ever-declining professional book outlets is harder every year. Each year, more newspapers shrink or cancel their book section, fire or retire their book editor and add those responsibilities to the entertainment editor’s...
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When Amazon Pulls Reviews: What You Need To Watch For
Authors, if Amazon has PULLED REVIEWS from your books, learn why it happened and what you can do to protect your book.
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Money May Not Buy Love, But…
In addition to buying you time, money can buy you recognition in advance of publishing through contests and crowdfunding, as well as the funds needed for marketing the book once you are published. Most artists and authors need money to accomplish their dreams.
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What you must have in place BEFORE you hire a publicist
If you have a book, before you reach out to a publicist to help you with publicity, it is critical that you address these three essential items.
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We at City Book Review are the proud owners of many [city]bookreview.com domains. One of the services we offer is the ability to license these domains and run your own book review website on them, just like we do! Our current inventory includes Austin, Baltimore, Cleveland, San Jose, Vanvouver, Washington DC, and more. Check out our licensing page for more details on how you can run your own book review website.
