Book review #8 on Amazon

The Beat Handbook just received a book review on Amazon. It's from someone I don't know, with no axe to grind, who didn't receive a free book from me, but wrote the review as a reviewer for Reader Views.

I'm pleased.

Maybe it's time to help the economy and buy your copy of The Beat Handbook? What have you got to lose: 15 bucks and your inhibitions?

Review of The Beat Handbook "Coming Soon"

Time for posting is a bit constrained this week. Without going into details, let's just say that, because of a nonroutine work situation, I'm "busy busy busy."*

Nevertheless, I have found time to post the news that The Beat Handbook has moved from "Pending" to "Coming Soon" on Reader Views. That means it has been assigned a reviewer and we should see a review in the near future. I'm a little anxious about that, but only for egotistical reasons. A great review or a bomb is unlikely to matter in the grand marketing scheme of things.

I'm hoping for the former, of course. But if it's a bomb, there's always the bottle (after all, what would Kerouac do?).


*A beat movie reference. Think Peter Stormare and maybe you'll figure it out.

Pending Book Review!

The Beat Handbook has been accepted for review by Reader Views (scroll down to see it in the list). It's "waiting for an available reviewer." I'm not sure what that means, and I don't know how much traffic Reader Views gets, but it seems like a fairly developed site.

Anyway, it's something.

I'm trying to decide whether to fork over $100 and enter my book in the 17th Annual Writer's Digest International Self-Published Book Awards. It's certainly a marketing opportunity.

It all makes me wish I had an agent like Sterling Lord.*


*Obscure reference intended for Kerouac-obsessed fans only.