After the World is currently on Netgalley, so if you’re a member you can read and review it here!

It’s really only since publishing my own book that I understand the importance of reviews, especially for self-published and indie published books like After the World. Books published by traditional funders have access to marketing on a totally different scale (including exclusive access to many book awards). Self and indie published books rely much more on the internet equivalent of word of mouth, and slow growth of readers over time.

In a way it’s wonderful, as a reader I love the wider variety of books and stories available to me. But even as a reader it’s hard to find the next book I would like to read. It might be too much to expect everyone (even me!) to review every book we read, but I try to make an extra effort to review books from self published and independently published books. So that’s my appeal to you, to get those reviews up on Amazon, goodreads, local lamp posts, and any other place that makes sense!