Getting Reviews from Reader Communities

Book-Communities
Reader and Writer Forums and Communities seem to be the best places to solicit book reviews.  Why, you might ask?  Well, as a member you are known and appreciated and you have “personal” contact with these folks.  So they are way more inclined to write a review for you.  Joining Wattpad, Goodreads, or any other book club, and network on these sites is a great possibility to make a name for yourself as a writer anyway.
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FanStory
A community for writers of all skill levels, comparable with Wattpad. They invite writers: “Make connections and friends. Enjoy sharing your writing. Learn from feedback that will be written on everything you write.  Share your poetry, stories and even single book chapters. Fun writing contests with cash prizes.  Choose from over 50 writing contests every month.  There is no limit to the number of contests that you can enter.  You keep your copyright and all rights to your writing.”
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FanStory organizes Reviewing Contests:
“We recognize reviewers who stood out more than others.  We are looking for quality, not quantity.  Someone well rounded when reviewing both poetry and prose.  Someone who views every piece as a whole, not just focusing on one aspect of the work.  Someone who inspires a writer to improve, not beats them into the ground.  It is a Quality Seal, but for reviewers.  We want people to see the gold stars, and to know that a review by this person is honest without being cruel, and thorough on all aspects.  The panel is looking for honest and detailed reviews that offer authors constructive feedback.  Members have the ability to nominate four reviewers each month to go before the Reviewer Recognition Panel.  Each month the Reviewer Recognition Panel takes the member that receives the most votes and decides on the winner of the contest.  The winner receives a prepaid $100 visa gift card (or optionally an Amazon gift certificate or 110 member dollars). Write reviews and you will automatically be entered.
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Canadian Book Clubs
Canadian Book Clubs are now open to authors who want their books reviewed, organizing these reviews: “We have finally enlarged our mandate to review books for a small fee.  The reviewer is not part of our staff, nor a free-lancer, but from one of our registered book clubs! We ask the person who would like to submit a book for review to send us a book, along with a small fee.  In turn, we redistribute that book to a member of one of our book clubs.  All people who review books have requested reviewer status.  If you would like to submit a book, please send them an email to: books@CanadianBookClubs.com.”
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Goodreads List of Most Popular Reviewers
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Click on “community” at the top of your Goodreads page, then click on “people” and on “most popular reviewers” at the right site of the opening page, where it says “meet people”. 
 There is a list of people published who wrote reviews that got the most votes on Goodreads this week (there are also lists for this month, in the last 12 months, or all time):
Most popular 100 reviewers this week in The United States
Most popular 100 reviewers this week in Canada
Most popular 100 reviewers (worldwide) this week

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What you will do is to invite these popular reviewers – or “top reviewers” or the ones who wrote the “best reviews” to join you on Goodreads.  Follow their reviews, “shelf” their books if they are writers too, and find out their blogs, websites and social media accounts to follow them too – long before you ask them for a review.
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BookBrowse Online Book Magazine
Their mission is to seek out the diamonds in the rough from the approximate 200,000 books published each year in the USA alone, so that you can spend more time reading exceptional titles, and less on books that don’t live up to your expectations.
BookBrowse’s concept is simple: “We combine the best features of a highly selective bookstore – hand selected and personally recommended books, with the best features of a newspaper book review column – except you can read the opinions of multiple reviewers not just one!  They also offer many things that you won’t find in a traditional book review magazine – such as reading guides, interviews, extended author biographies and literary quizzes; plus the ability to browse for books by time period, setting and theme; find read-alike suggestions from one book to another and much more.”
Under the section “contact us” authors will find “Info for authors wanting to be reviewed by BookBrowse”.
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Don’t forget to thank all your reviewers personally.  Keep in mind that these wonderful people are taking the time to read and write up a review.  Many of them are donating their precious leisure hours or days to you and your book.

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