By Shannon Yarbrough on December 13, 2009
While I lean more toward surfing GoodReads, Facebook, Twitter, and my fellow reviewer’s sites on a regular basis more than all the other Creative Writing sites that have popped up recently, WEBook is one that I did sign up for this year but haven’t taken full advantage of due to lack of time and interest. However, this site did launch an interesting program recently called Agent InBox.
Posted in Getting Published, Opinions, Rejections, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged agent inbox, agentinbox, book agent, book query, literary agent, query agent, webook |
By Shannon Yarbrough on April 12, 2009
We here at LLBR unfortunately have to send out rejection letters each month for books our review team pass on. It’s not an easy thing to do. If all four of us had the time and were being paid for our efforts, I’m sure there would be less rejections sent. While we do pass on reviewing books from time to time due to bad formatting or too many spelling and grammatical errors, the majority of our rejections come down to a book just not being something any of us is interested in reading. Face it, you don’t pick up and read every book in the bookstore you see, do you?
Posted in Rejections, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged agent rejection, author rejection, authors behaving badly, bad author, rejection, rejection letter |
By Shannon Yarbrough on November 24, 2008
Since LK joined the LLBR team, we’ve been compiling a list of common mistakes and errors which tend to grate our nerves while reading books, and also turns us off when we are considering books for possible reviews. Since I only recently started sending out rejection letters, I thought it was important to let authors know common reasons why their book might get rejected for a review outside of just being a theme we aren’t interested in reviewing at this time. While this is NOT a list of set-in-stone guidelines used to determine who gets reviewed and who doesn’t, we hope this list will at least help future authors polish their book for publication.
Posted in Formatting, Opinions, Rejections, Shannon Yarbrough, Writing | Tagged book boo boos, book editing, book errors, book mistakes, Lulu, lulu book review, lulu.com, POD book editing, POD mistakes, self-publishing mistakes |
