by editor | Mar 14, 2026 | Articles, Book Marketing, Resources for Writers
What Bay Area Authors Should Know About Book Reviews You write a book. You edit it, format it, launch it. Then you realize: no one outside your immediate circle knows it exists. That’s where professional reviews come in. And in the Bay Area, this conversation...
by editor | Mar 11, 2026 | Articles, Book Marketing, Resources for Writers
What Bay Area Authors Should Know About Book Reviews You write a book. You edit it, format it, launch it. Then you realize: no one outside your immediate circle knows it exists. That’s where professional reviews come in. And in the Bay Area, this conversation...
by editor | Jan 19, 2025 | Articles, Book Marketing
Navigating the world of book marketing can be challenging for self-published authors. To help you on this journey, we’ve compiled a selection of insightful articles from City Book Review that offer practical advice and strategies to enhance your book’s...
by editor | Jun 22, 2019 | Articles, Author Interviews, Book Marketing, Resources for Writers, Written
City Book Review-er Jane Manaster interviews Alex Hiam about his latest book for tweens, Silent Lee and the Adventure of the Side Door Key. See below for more information about Jane and Alex, and see our review of Silent Lee here. Jane Manaster: Why a female...
by Susan Burrowes | Jul 10, 2018 | Articles, Book Marketing, Book Publishing, News + Features, Resources for Writers, Writer to Writer
I wrote my book quickly, taking months rather than years. I wrote it with the urgency of emotion, grateful that my addicted daughter was still alive and still willing to be part of our family after being sent to a brutal wilderness experience, a locked-down treatment...
by Joanna Charnas | May 30, 2018 | Articles, Book Marketing, Book Publishing, Guest Contributors, Writer to Writer
Getting a first book published at age fifty-five could make a person so happy, she’d do her Snoopy dance all the time and in inappropriate places: on line in the grocery store, while cleaning the litter box, and even a few paces in front of her house of worship. I...
