Anyone know how to get a book reviewed here?
 

Hey guys, I'm a self-published author in the UK. My third attempt at an ebook novel is currently in the top 5 of the Amazon UK Horror/Thriller chart and the top 10 of the UK Amazon Horror chart. Does anyone know how to get reviewed here on horror.com?

Happy to dish out a few free copies for any help or just if anyone is interested
www.amazon.co.uk/Gated-ebook/dp/B00AHW1VW2

You will need to PM the owner of the site, horror.

Normally I'd say to pm horror (the site owner and forum admin) as above but he hasn't logged on this forum for a year...almost exactly to the day so I doubt you would get a reply.

Well, I've sent a pm to horror regarding a review query. We'll see what happens, and I'll keep ya posted.

Here's hoping thing get all judgey up in here! :)

I've just bought this for my kindle. I'm currently reading something but you're next on the pile. I can let you know my thoughts if you want?

Well I've just finished the book.

Out of interest. How do kindle books work? Does someone sit and rewrite it or does it get uploaded as the original file?

Geek,

There are probably many ways to do it. But the way I know how to do it is to create a PDF file in Word and upload it. Not everything translates correctly between Word and Kindle. You can see it when you download it. Some more experienced people would know what to do in advance. But, myself, I tweak the original file and upload it again and again until the download from Kindle looks right. Hope that answers your question.

Thanks ntillemans, I was interested because there are some grammar/spelling errors in certain parts. I wasn't sure if it was down to another person doing the kindle stuff or whether the same errors would exist in the hard copy.

Yeah...it's probably a combination of the two. :)

Since no one touches your file once you upload it, that's quite a stretch to pass off your poor spelling and grammar on Amazon.

..nobody did try to pass it off on amazon I was asking how the whole thing worked..

The esteemed author said it was "a combination of the two." One being his own poor spelling, the other being Amazon. Since Amazon doesn't even look at the ebooks people self-publish on their site, trying to implicate them, even partially, in the poor spelling and punctuation of one's manuscript, is less than truthful.

The post that was here was too harsh, I'm really thick, wrong author wrong thread.

Neverending, it seems you have me mixed up with the author who started this thread. I haven't read the book that Geek is talking about. So, I cannot testify to problems with Frantic-Ghost's ebook. Rather, I was remarking about ebooks more generally.

I was only sharing my experience with how the process works. I was not excusing bad grammar and spelling in ebooks. Anyone who finds problems with my ebook or the print version should place the blame squarely on me.

I was remarking that the file conversion from PDF to MOBI sometimes makes the end product look different from the original PDF. So, where there are typos in a Kindle ebook, some of those could be a product of that conversion (i.e. line breaks, punctuation,etc sometimes look different in the Mobi format than in the original PDF format). That's why it is important for authors to download their ebooks to fix problems stemming from the file conversion; and it is not something one should blame on Amazon.

Of course, one cannot pin all of the typos one sees in some ebooks on the conversion process. Where one finds problems with formatting and punctuation in ebooks, it is probably a combination of problems, as I remarked. Though, spelling and grammar problems usually stem from problems with spelling and grammar in the original file.

Anyways, nice to make your acquaintance. I hope this clears the air.

Nick

You know there are several good ebooks on how to properly format a file for Kindle. Some are even free.

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Just for the record the arrogant comment was not aimed at you ntillemans I was still talking about the author of the book.

Thank you for clarifying what you meant. I didn't think you meant to say that I was arrogant. Though I do think a handful of people may have read that the wrong way.

This should clear the air.;)

As I'm clearly really thick I've posted on the wrong thread.

Can I just clear up, neither Matt Drabble nor Ntillemans are arrogant. I have posted on the wrong thread.

Please disregard any negative comment here from me. Try out the book as it is worth the read.

Sorry!