Title: The Truth About Book Reviews

Subtitle: An Insider’s Guide to Getting and Using Reviews to Grow Your Readership

Author: Joe Walters

ISBN (Paperback): 979-8-9986577-0-2

ISBN (eBook): 979-8-9986577-1-9

Publication Date (Approx.): July 8, 2025

Page count: 215 (Approx.)

Category/Genre: Publishing & Writing / Authorship / Business Aspects of Writing

About the Author

Joe Walters is the founder of Independent Book Review and has been the marketing director for Inkwater Press, a book review and metadata specialist for Paper Raven Books, and a marketer for Sunbury Press. During his time in publishing, he saw how many great books were being published and how few platforms there were to review them. So he made one–for indies only. In The Truth About Book Reviews, he shares targeted marketing strategies and insider knowledge of the book review industry to help authors get more book reviews and actually use them. When he’s not writing, assigning, or editing reviews in a Panera Bread, he’s playing with his daughters or reading indie books by Kindle light. Check out which ones at IndependentBookReview.com.

Contact jwalters@independentbookreview.com for more information, or subscribe to Write Indie to read a free sample of the book, gain access his book review targeting spreadsheet, and add 20 active book review platforms to it.