Looks good, except that Amazon has new and constantly changing rules in place, including this really important bit straight from Amazon’s community rules:
We don’t allow individuals who share a household with the author or close friends to write Customer Reviews for that author’s book.
This means Amazon is going to take a hard look at all of your reviews. I believe they know who you’re sending gifts to at Christmas — they look at your address list — so if you sent your buddy Mike a Christmas gift last year, even if he lives on the other side of the country, and you ask Mike for a review, it’s probably not going to be accepted by Amazon because his name and contact information are in your address book.
And this might hang up your other reviews, as you’ll draw more scrutiny. Even reviews that are legit will be looked at sideways.
So pay attention and review Amazon’s community guidelines before you do any serious work looking for reviews.
Cheap fake reviews: a cautionary tale
If you’re thinking you can get a bunch of cheap reviews and flood your Amazon page with them, let me tell you a story about an indie author named John Locke. About 10 years ago, he launched a self-publishing career. He had a very slow start, he self-published a few books, then all of a sudden his sales went crazy. He had four titles in the Top 10 Best-Sellers, he sold over a million eBook copies of his nine Donovan Creed novels, and he was celebrated by the publishing industry as the first self-published author to really achieve a high level of success.
