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Four Strategies to Gain Early Reviews (and Build Buzz!)

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Early reviews for an upcoming release serve a number of purposes, from giving your book “street cred”, to building buzz, to helping readers identify if it’s the right read for them. But gaining early reviews can be challenging for both debut and established authors. In this session, we’ll go over four strategies to gain early reviews—with specific, actionable steps—and look at a case study of how those strategies panned out when put into practice. Whether you’re an indie author or taking the traditional publishing route, planning for early reviews will be an integral part of a successful release.

Panelist: Intisar Khanani