Sunday, January 17, 2010

Blogging for Books

Long time readers know this....I blog for books. I blog for Waterbrook Press, Multnomah, Doubleday, Random House and Thomas Nelson. You'll see links in the side bar if you are interested. I've done this for years and have had a great time with it.

The basics? They send me offers, I choose the books I want to review, they send me a book (sometimes with a giveaway book), I read the book and write a review.

Moving to Japan complicated this system. Reviews are ideally posted during a certain week. I have two books to review that both came recently, well past the deadline. The good news is that Waterbrook sent the last book PRIORITY and I have a week to read before posting. ::grin:: Thomas Nelson allows you to choose a book and you pick the next one when you post a review for that one....no time deadlines to meet.

I've noted, over the summer, that publishers aren't giving away quite so many freebie books for bloggers to share.....but hopefully you'll still find the reviews to be helpful.

I used to review EVERY book I read. I found this to be cumbersome in 2009 and quit the practice....but I will review some. I'll always let you know if a book I'm reviewing was a gift from a publisher.

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3 comments:

Renee said...

I know some of the publishers ship UPS which doesn't deliver to APO boxes :(

Renee said...

Have you been able to change your PBS address? I never could get registered with them while we lived in Germany - their system would not accept the APO address

DeEtta @ Courageous Joy said...

Both Waterbrook/Multnomah/Random House and Thomas Nelson will ship to APO.

PBS took my APO address without a problem. Were you an established account or trying to sign up? Maybe that made the difference. I've not tried it from here...I know it would take MONTHS to get books and that frustrates me. LOL

Yes, I know that supposedly it won't make much difference once the books hit San Diego but I'm hear to tell you I've tried. To Misawa, it makes a difference and it's not the time to get to San Diego. It took over a month for the books mailed media to reach.....priority gets here in about 6 days. LOL

I don't even want to think about parcel post. Priority is my friend. LOL Amazon is my friend....vitacost is my friend. LOL