Cate Baum | Self-Publishing Review

An Interview With Author Maureen O’Leary

Tell us something about your book. The basics: what’s it about?

The Arrow is the first in a trilogy about a family of women who are direct descendants of the ancient Celtic goddess Brigid. In The Arrow, a young woman named Fynn Kildare tries to escape the magical yet oppressive family commune by living on the world’s terms as a University medical researcher. She finally has her life the way she wants it, including a new romance with her old rock star god boyfriend. Yet when a local pharmaceutical company threatens humanity with a demon virus, she has to decide […]

Cate Baum2015-01-07T12:39:32+02:00January 7th, 2015|Categories: Interviews|

Review: Keeper Chronicles: Awakening by Katherine Wynter

Urban fantasy Keeper Chronicles: Awakening by Katherine Wynter is a fantastic adventure with demonic activity, romance and psychic powers all wrapped up in the beauty and magic of a lighthouse seascape.

Author Wynter brings alive the setting from the first page. Readers will be able to taste the salty waves as they crash into the powerful lighthouse at Cape Creek Bridge as lightning strikes. Rebekah is our protagonist, but there are a number of other female players, all with strong personalities from the off. Rebekah is a hardy and rounded heroine that will carry with the reader during her turmoil […]

Cate Baum2015-02-02T09:11:59+02:00January 7th, 2015|Categories: Lead Story|Tags: Fantasy Book Reviews|

An Interview With Author Hae-Lyun Kang

Tell us something about your book. The basics: what’s it about?

Forty Bibles and Forty Dictionaries is a memoir on the family of the man (Hae-Lyun’s brother) who committed affray in front of Prince Charles in January 1994.

How did you come to self-publish? Did you try to get published traditionally?

I came to self-publish as after 10 months I was unable to get my book accepted for publication. I naively thought I didn’t need an agent so was sending off my manuscript as an unsolicited manuscript.

What self-publishing service did you use? Happy with the service?

I first saw […]

Cate Baum2015-01-07T08:01:36+02:00January 7th, 2015|Categories: Interviews|

Portfolio Take-off: Stock Market Theory by Feliciano Bantilan

“The secret is out! Investing in the stock market is like piloting a plane. Portfolio will take-off after taxi-time on the runway for about 15 years. Once airborne, it will continue to climb into the zone of unlimited growth. We do not hear anything about this in the press. It is one of the best-kept secrets on the stock market.

Our desire to provision our future by growing our money prods us to invest in the stock market. Randomness and causality are the two forces driving its dynamics. Randomness gives rise to the probabilistic behaviour of portfolio returns, while causality […]

Cate Baum2014-12-27T03:21:25+02:00December 27th, 2014|Categories: New Releases|

An Interview With Author Pamela Cuming

Tell us something about your book. The basics: what’s it about?

Set in New York City and Los Angeles between August 1999 and November 2001, The Stranger Box is the story of a mother and a daughter caught like two white dwarf stars in separate orbits, destined to collide. Though she does everything in her considerable power to ensure the child never finds out who she is, the vain and self-obsessed Katherine Blair is unable to change the course of her destiny or evade Eden, the resourceful daughter whose pursuit is fueled by the desire for revenge and the determination

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Cate Baum2014-12-23T04:58:15+02:00December 23rd, 2014|Categories: Interviews|

Why Amazon Reviews Just Aren’t Enough

With the fall in prices for trad published books, the indie Kindle goldrush may be over, so Cate Baum looks into Amazon’s algorithm and how its search engine works for authors and their books – and why Amazon reviews are not enough to sell a book – and maybe never have been.

There’s a lot of misinformation around about paid reviews, customer reviews, Fiverr reviews and the ethics and technical issues surrounding them for book sales. Frankly, I’m tired of the many forums banging on with the phrase, “I am totally against paid reviews.” And yet the hallowed Amazon […]

Cate Baum2019-02-03T09:28:40+02:00December 15th, 2014|Categories: Features|Tags: Book Promotion Articles, Book Reviews|

Review: Dublin In The Rain by Andrew Critchley

Dublin In The Rain weaves themes of love, redemption and devastation as those connected to a fatal accident in Dublin in 1947 are thrown together with sadness and romance, in this, the first book of a series by Andrew Critchley.

When Jonathan arrives in Dublin, he’s anxious and solemn due to traumatizing events that have left him empty. But when he meets the somewhat magical Maoliosa, the hotel barmaid who mysteriously guesses his name and wins his affections, he wonders if he’s found happiness. But Jonathan will have to go back to his childhood to work through the past if […]

Cate Baum2014-12-15T01:47:52+02:00December 14th, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Romance Book Reviews|

SPR Awards 2015 Open For Submissions From Indie Authors Now!

Self-Publishing Review, the premier site dedicated to indie book reviews today launches its yearly competition to find the best fiction, non-fiction and short e-book written by a self-published or indie author.

This year the competition has added a Grand Prize, with the lucky recipient garnering either a Fire HDX Kindle or an iPad Mini, meaning one overall winner will take home prizes worth over $600.

There are three categories: Fiction, Non-Fiction and Shorts, with liberal rules to encompass as many authors as possible. You can enter if you live anywhere in the world as long as your book is in […]

Cate Baum2014-12-13T09:26:01+02:00December 13th, 2014|Categories: Lead Story, News|