Blurbtrade.com

[Amber Cook]

This is a relatively new site, but it's being run by someone with over a thousand hits on his site every day, so it may take off quickly.  

The idea is to trade reviews, honest ones, with other indie authors in your genre:

http://blurbtrade.com

So you can post your book, with a cover, description and author bio, and the site fields review requests and offers so you only have to respond to the ones you're interested in. 

If anyone tries it, let me know, and I'll post more when I try it. 

[Ron Hepner]

I tried it. When opening one of the sites this guy comes on too pushy. I'll pass on this one. But there are fairly good sites I've clicked to. By the way, I'm not an Indie author--self-publishing--my current book and those to follow --on behalf of my literary agency--through traditional publishing.   

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[Amber Cook]

I never said you were an indie author...

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[Andy Bunch]

Ron I'm not sure I understand. Are you self publishing or traditional?

[Ron Hepner]

Andy, the three books are through traditional publishing. 

[Angela Korra'ti]

The word you may want here is ‘hybrid’.

More and more authors these days are pursuing multiple angles of publishing after all, with one foot in self-pub and one foot in traditional pub. ‘Hybrid’ is what I’ve been calling myself, since I’ve got both self-pubbed work and a trilogy with Carina as well. This is the term I’ve seen on the various pub-related blogs and twitter accounts I follow.

Anna

[Bob Boyd]

I decided to check them out by dropping three of mine on there to see what happens.   I'll keep everyone informed.   This could be a very useful site if it turns out popular and well run.

Bob

[Ron Hepner]

Thanks, Amber, tips can be beneficial.

On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 6:56 PM, Bob Boyd <publ...@the-written-wyrd.org> wrote:

I decided to check them out by dropping three of mine on there to see what happens.   I'll keep everyone informed.   This could be a very useful site if it turns out popular and well run.

Bob

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[Bob Boyd]

Hmmm...

I did some digging around on Blurbtrade and found that the link used to contact another author evidently doesn't work.   (The screen goes gray, but no pop-up or anything else.)   I tried to contact the site owner, but their e-mail link is scrambled, the Java code is showing, but no fill-ins or buttons.   So it appears there is no way to use this site and no way to contact them to tell them.   If anyone can figure out a way to do so, please let them know.   Sad.

Bob

[Ron Hepner]

Amber, not everything works as anticipated. I've tried unsuccessfully to open sites which you think would link or open but don't.

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[Amber Cook]

Bob, like you I was able to post my book for blurbtrade, but not able to apply to anyone else's or use the contact page.  The site was started by Derek Murphy of Creativindie.com, so I'm contacting him to let him know the problems, with screencaps.  Will report back when I know more.