Yes, as long as it's not an email follow!

Yes, of course, and we would be honored if you did.

That's a great questions, Marc, and I think you should be fine, but I'm not an attorney. I have found these links and you might check them as well, but authors cite websites all the time without first gaining permission (I'm not saying it's right, because I haven't fully researched it, just stating facts). I had a hard time finding much on the actual use of a website within the text other than as a reference, but this may help in some way:

http://janefriedman.com/2012/01/23/permissions/

http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/33098/How-Not-to-Steal-Peopl...

Hi Galen, I'm sorry it took a few days to figure this out, but we are still at a loss as to how your post showed up between two April 29th posts. That is why it was missed. We are going to make sure that it runs now. Thanks for your patience. 

I'll look into this for you. I'll get back to you as soon as I have an answer. 

Hi, the blog follow program is developed to follow only the blog. To follow on Twitter, please use the Twitter Follow program. If you decide to be removed from the blog follow program, please use our Contact Us form, found under the Home tab, to notify us. 

Thanks so much!

Hi Dianne, we don't remove links unless they are not working or spam. I'm looking into this. There is a chance that your link was inoperable, but let me confirm and get back to you. 

I'm sorry you experienced that. Twitter doesn't like it when people only RT others and they don't organically tweet. I actually don't like that either. It's really important (for your followers benefit and for your relationships) that you interact on Twitter and not just RT. My suggestion is to look at your stream and figure out if you are active enough other than RTing people. Do you tweet articles or funny things, pictures, or anything other than book related tweets? If not, you might start to do that, but interacting with others is vital. "Social" Media is about being social, so next time just dive in a few times each day and try to get to know your followers a bit more. 

Hi Glen,

You have opted to turn on the ability for member to contact you using your Email link on your profile. You cannot connect to a page, because the message they send you is embedded in the email. 

Turning off that function is quite simple. Go to your Account, which you can reach using the MY ACCOUNT button in the lower right of the page in the navigation box. Then click EDIT then you will see CONTACT SETTINGS. Just unclick that box and your messages will stop. 

If you have any trouble, please use the CONTACT FORM located under our HOME tab in the main menu and we'll be happy to walk you through the process. 

Hope that helps.

Melissa

That's an interesting take, Michael. I think we were mostly readers before we became writers, so for many of us, we can still enjoy a book without trying to see it "our" way, or as if we'd written it. It can be difficult, if a book is poorly written or littered with errors or inconsistencies. But you reference "professional" reviewers, and quite frankly, I do differ there. I think that real readers are our best measurement of the quality of our writing. After all, we don't write for the reviews or the reviewers, we write for the enjoyment of the readers. You could take that a step further and ask yourself who those professional reviewers are. Look at traditional publishers, who I have a great deal of respect for, but in many cases there is a disconnect between what publishers represent and what the reading public enjoys, so qualifying, in my eyes, is up to each reader. Another note to think of is that all readers don't enjoy all books, so if you only gave your book to those professional reviewers, you might be missing out on an entire audience. 

Hi Glen,

The review process takes time, and 90% of our reviewers contact authors via private message or email after seeing the post, not on the post itself. That's why it appears that people aren't gaining reviews, but I can tell you that the process is working, even if slow. 

The goal is not to swap reviews. I don't believe you can ever give or receive a fair review by swapping books for review. Imagine if you loved someone's book and gave it a 5 star review, but they found yours lacking and wanted to give it 3 stars, but felt uncomfortable because of what you gave them. Therein lies the issue. Fair and honest reviews are our goals and must come ahead of speed. Because of that, I would not present the reviews in such a fashion. A Tweet Team idea would be doing just that. 

I have no seen your listing, but perhaps review your listing to insure that you have the best blurb available for the reviewers to read. The blurb has to entice them enough to want to read it. If you want to send me an email, I'll be happy to review it for you (use the Contact form for the site). And please know that we are well aware of the importance of honest reviews and reviews in general, so we are always looking for better ways to facilitate reviews.

The review forum is a temporary set up. We are going through a transition with the site, and we will be bringing back our Read and Review program at some point in the future, so our reviewers will have a handful of books to review each month. Until then, this system, although slow, is the most fair way to do things.