Only five books at a time will be given this spotlight placement every week, so your book is sure to garner attention. After one week (longer if another Spotlight review is not purchased by another author, publisher, or publicist) the review will be moved to its own page and will remain on our site indefinitely, searchable by title and author.
This service includes a review placed on the high traffic main page of your book’s genre. It will be prominently displayed above the links to reviews of other books and be featured for at least one week. Featured reviews will be limited to one book at a time, so your review will not be lost among a large group. After a week (longer if another Featured review is not purchased by another author, publisher, or publicist), the review will be moved to its own page and will remain on our site indefinitely, searchable by title and author.
A review will be placed on a page created for your book, with a link from the genre-specific page, so readers can easily find the review. It will also be searchable by title and author.
This special rate is only for children’s hardcover, 32-page, full-color books of 1,000 words or less. It includes a review that will be placed on a page created for your book. Note: If you want a front-page Spotlight review or a Featured review, you need to submit for those review packages, not this one.
These interviews are tailored to a specific author and/or book. The questions for these interviews are written by the reviewer who reads/reviews the book and then works up original questions which makes for a very interesting interview. Authors frequently comment about how on-target our questions are for their book. Because the book needs to be read in order for the reviewer to come up with probing questions, this interview is only available for authors who purchase one of our promotional packages. This interview is included with the Spotlight promotional package and can also be added on to the other promotional packages (we suggest doing it when you purchase your promotional package rather than waiting until after the review is posted so the reviewer can work up questions as she reads the book). If you are interested in either a Featured or Standard promotional service, please contact us at admin@featheredquill.com for further information on how to get your interview.
This is an excellent option for those on a tight marketing budget. The Author Interview is the perfect way to get information on your book out onto our various social media sites as well as our main website. This promotional package does not require a review of the book prior to posting the interview. For these interviews, we provide the author/publisher/publicist a link that has a series of standard questions. Once you have purchased your interview, we will send you the url of the page with the list of questions. You may pick up to ten questions, answer at your convenience, and return your answers to us. We will include an Amazon link to your book’s/ebook’s page.
Pre-Review Questions
This is, perhaps, the most important question of all! You spent a lot of time, possibly even years, working on your book. Do you really want to trust it to a site that flips quickly through the text and then writes a generic review? Feathered Quill Book Reviews is not the largest review site on the net, we don't boast of reviewing 100s of books each month and we believe that is a good thing. You see, when a site receives and reviews huge quantities of books, it is simply impossible to read each one cover-to-cover and then give a careful, detailed review. Many of our reviewers are authors themselves and we know what it is like to receive a review where it is obvious that the reviewer didn't read the entire book, or in some cases, read the book at all. We treat each book, and each author, with the individual attention they deserve. Our reviews are respected within the industry and are used by self-publishers as well as NYTimes Best-Selling authors to promote their books. Please take a moment to read our testimonials to see what other authors are saying.
Yes, all are acceptable. Please be sure to let us know the publication date. Note: If you submit a manuscript for review, please be sure it has already been through the editing process. If the text is full of typos or other errors, we will have to note that in our review.
Yes, but...we have a limited number of reviewers who will review from digital files. Therefore, if your book is only available in ebook/pdf format, please check with us first before submitting the book for review to be sure we have a reviewer available for your book/genre. Email us at admin@featheredquill.com and give us the title, author, and brief synopsis of your book and we will reply as soon as we can confirm the availability of a reviewer.
We feel that there are many gems in the book world that never receive the attention they deserve. As long as your book is still available for purchase, we will review it.
Yes, but they must be in English.
We have a diverse group of dedicated book enthusiasts, whose backgrounds range from a multiple award-winning children's book author, a reviewer with degrees in Music Education and Library Science, to a former substance abuse counselor with a lifetime passion for reading who specializes in reviewing books in her chosen field of study. See our Reviewers page for more info.
If your genre is not listed, please contact us at admin@featheredquill.com before submitting the book. We will reply within two business days if we are able to accept the book for review.
There are several options to get publicity for your book: Spotlight, Featured, and Standard reviews, as well as a special rate for 32-page children's books. We also offer two interview opportunities as well as Meet the Author biography pages, display advertising and book cover ads. More details on each above.
Interviews are included as part of the Spotlight promotional service. If, however, you are interested in either a Featured or Standard promotional service, you may still get an interview. Please contact us at admin@featheredquill.com for further information.
Unlike many review sites that forget to market to the reading public and simply target their site to authors looking for reviews, we are constantly searching for ways to promote our site to the buying public. We advertise in newsletters as well as via the internet on social media sites where book fans lurk, and use methods such as adwords to get readers to our site.
Yes, reviews are posted to our blog, FeatheredQuillBlog.com, our FaceBook page, Pinterest, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, as well as BarnesandNoble.com and Google Books (if the book is listed on those sites). In addition, several of our reviewers run their own review blogs, etc., so your review may show up on an additional Instagram page or website.
Yes, we encourage submissions from small, independent presses.
Yes, we are happy to review self-published books. Many review sites refuse to take submissions from self-publishers, and we know how hard it can be to get a review for these books. We're here to help your book get the recognition it deserves.
Yes, we're happy to take submissions from POD publishers.
Books submitted for review become the property of Feathered Quill Book Reviews. Books that are submitted as part of a review package are either kept by our reviewers or donated to local libraries and schools. Books that come in for free reviews may be donated or sold via Amazon after the review is posted - it's up to the individual reviewer. Note that books that arrive unsolicited will either be recycled or sold via Amazon - in other words, please do not send unsolicited books!
Typically, it takes about four weeks from receipt of your book to post the review.
In a word, no. We do not guarantee a positive review but we do guarantee a fair, honest assessment of your work. While we have no desire to trash a book, we will point out problems if they exist, such as confusing plot changes, lack of editing, etc. All reviews are posted to our site so please don't ask us to pull a review you don't like. If you don't want an honest opinion of your book, then don't submit your book to Feathered Quill.
We grant you, the author, publisher or publicist, the right to post the review anywhere you desire. We only ask that Feathered Quill Book Reviews is credited as the reviewer.
First, we will e-mail you an acknowledgment as soon as your book arrives. Then your book is matched with the reviewer who we feel is the best match for your book. Next, we will post a thorough review of your book on our site and notify you once the review is posted. Unlike many sites, we never skim a book. We read it cover-to-cover and write a comprehensive, thought-provoking evaluation. All reviews will be posted to our site. We will place a widget link on the book's review page to its corresponding page on Amazon.com (if the book is available on Amazon) so that purchasing the book will be quick and simple. For reviews that are part of a review package, you will receive a pdf version/tear sheet of the review for use in your marketing packet. We will also post a link to your website, if you have one and provide us with the url.
In early 2011, Amazon changed their review policies to remove reviews posted by professional sites such as Feathered Quill. While we are no longer able to post reviews to Amazon, you can still post portions of your review via your Author Central account on Amazon.
The emails of authors, publishers, etc. who have books reviewed by Feathered Quill are added to our mailing list that is used just four times a year to send out announcements for our annual award program. This is the only time we email clients and you can easily unsubscribe from these mailings if you choose.
Consider that in 2012 we were named one of the best websites for authors by The Association of Independent Authors! We're very excited and proud of being selected for this honor. In addition, we won the 2009 Writers' Choice Award sponsored by Writer Watchdog. This award was given to just a few organizations that received the most positive comments/votes from authors/publishers/publicists who used their services. We could never have received such an award without the votes of so many satisfied authors.
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