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A BlueInk review can greatly increase your indie book’s visibility.

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Our reach is wider than ever. BlueInk reviews are now featured in Booklist magazine!

Imagine a review of your book running in Booklist magazine! It’s possible through BlueInk Review. Booklist is now offering a monthly column featuring our reviews of select titles — those we deem noteworthy and appropriate. Booklist reaches more than 60,000 librarians. It is one of the most highly respected review publications in the country.  A mention in Booklist provides invaluable exposure and immeasurable credibility for your title. Take a look at a recent two-page spread and consider ordering your BlueInk review today!

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All BlueInk reviews will be distributed to:

Ingram Book Company, a wholesale book distributor whose online forums are accessed by more than 71,000 librarians and booksellers globally. iDreamBooks, a discoverability site that aggregates professional book reviews (think Rotten Tomatoes for books), featuring BlueInk’s reviews alongside those from The New York Times and NPR.  Barnes & Noble, where, at an author’s request, BlueInk posts a review excerpt in the Editorial section of the author’s page; this designates that the review is professional as distinguished from customer reviews. All our reviews are also eligible to appear in the Editorial section of Amazon’s author pages.

Selected titles go to:

In addition to Booklist,  select titles are distributed to Douglas County Libraries, a major Colorado library system (8 million annual circulation) that buys many of BlueInk’s recommended titles, providing a unique and rare opportunity for self-publishers to boost their credibility. Select titles are also included in BlueInk’s monthly newsletter, emailed to readers, agents, publishers and librarians who have expressly signed up for the list, recommended on Goodreads and distributed on social media platforms.

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Currently, editors from nearly every major publishing house receive our monthly recommended title list. They include representatives from: RANDOM HOUSE * LITTLE, BROWN * ST. MARTIN’S * SIMON & SCHUSTER * NORTON * ALGONQUIN * PENGUIN * WORKMAN * STERLING * SASQUATCH * GRAND CENTRAL * UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS

Two reviews are better than one!

BlueInk and Foreword Clarion Reviews offer two professional reviews at a major discount.

We have joined with Foreword Clarion Reviews, a long-respected indie review voice, to offer a two-review package. You will reach separate audiences, receive reviews within 4-6 weeks and SAVE $300!  Better yet,  you’ll garner the credibility of two of the most respected indie review sources in the self-publishing world.   Read the exciting details here.

We have everything from edge-of-your-seat thrillers and mysteries to books on spirituality and serious academic works, and toss in a few great children’s titles.

Find it all on our Reviews page. Search notable indie titles, books by genre and even by authors whose work recalls your longtime favorites.

Great Fall Reads!

As cool weather approaches, now is the perfect time to cozy up with an independently published book. These recent titles, highly praised by BlueInk reviewers, offer irresistible reads.

The Marsco Dissident by James A. Zarzana: This stellar debut novel, the first installment of a projected quartet, is grand-scale science fiction at its very best. Reminiscent of speculative fiction masterworks such as Ben Bova’s Grand Tour and Isaac Asimov’s Foundation, this novel explores a near future where, after an apocalyptic war that killed billions, a multinational corporation called Marsco has essentially replaced all governments with a cyber nation, or a “meta-nationality.”A paradoxical and highly appealing blend of utopian and dystopian elements. Read review.

Arabian Nights and Arabian Nights: Traditional tales from a thousand and one nights, Contemporary Tales for Adults by Clive Johnson: Aladdin and his magic lamp. Sinbad the Sailor. Scheherazade, the brilliant proto-feminist and weaver of tales. These are some of the age-old cultural icons that inventive author Clive Johnson brings to life once again—with a cool modern twist. Each of the seven Arabian Nights tales the author reproduces here  is followed by a new story in which Johnson re-imagines the text for contemporary adult readers. It’s a clever idea, handsomely executed in impeccable prose…All in all, this is a delightful collection. So. Seven down, just 994 bedtime stories to go.  Read review.

Sometimes I Sing: The Renovation of Heart and Home by Mary Hershberger: This is an ambitious memoir built around an ambitious project: the restoration of a historic house that two decades of neglect and incongruous “improvements” had rendered an eyesore…Hershberger ponies up the full asking price – $92,000 – and commits to countless months of stripping, sanding, tiling and spackling. Along with the old paint and wallpaper, the author winds up stripping her soul as the story of saving the house morphs with that of her life, a story “almost too sad to write about”…The result is as unconventional and idiosyncratic as the house that inspired it. Read review.

Béla’s Letters, by Jeff Ingber: This expansive, engaging historical novel spans decades and continents as it recounts the story of Béla, a Jew born in Czechoslovakia in the 1920s, and his family’s experiences during WWII and the Holocaust…Fast-paced and well-written, with a captivating plot and likeable characters, Béla’s Letters dramatizes a traumatic time in history, asking the question: How do people recover from such tragedy—or is recovery even possible? Anyone looking for compelling fiction will enjoy this story. Read review.

For librarians, booksellers, editors, or literary agents, the self-publishing boom presents opportunities — but how to find notable titles in this mountain of material?

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We have vetted thousands of self-published titles and designed our website specifically for your ease.

Read about the special search options we have for you.

In addition, we offer:

–A carefully curated monthly list of recommended titles.

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Our critics know books – and how to write about them.

You’ve seen our critics’ bylines in newspapers and online publications, including the L.A. Times, Washington Post and Chicago Tribune. Many have been senior level editors at New York publishing houses. They are pros whose opinions you can trust. Read BlueInk reviewer bios.

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