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Review Template

27 Monday Jan 2014

Posted by sffradmin in Templates

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To create a review of a book, follow this process:

  1. Read the book.
  2. Gather information, including image URL and link URL.
  3. Start a new post.
  4. Click on the Text tab.
  5. Copy and paste the text below into the Text tab.
    <div style="float:left;margin-right:15px;text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/{PUT ASIN HERE}?tag=scififantasyreaders-20"><img style="border:0;box-shadow:0 0 0;" src="{PUT Image URL HERE}" alt="{PUT Book Name Here}" />
    <img style="display:block;margin-left:40px;border-style:none;box-shadow:0 0 0;" alt="Buy from Amazon" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/buttons/buy-from-tan.gif" /></a></div>
    
    <h3 style="overflow:hidden;">Star Rating</h3>
    <img style="border:none;padding:0;box-shadow:0 0 0;" src="https://scififantasyreaders.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/star.png?w=48" alt="star" /><img style="border:none;padding:0;box-shadow:0 0 0;" src="https://scififantasyreaders.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/halfstar.png?w=48" alt="halfstar" />
    
    Copy star images as needed. Make sure there are no "new lines" between the images.
    
    Comment on why you gave the book the stars you did.
    <h3 style="overflow:hidden;">Book Details</h3>
    Enter the title, the author, the publisher, the genre, the target age group or market, the page count, etc...
    
    <h3 style="overflow:hidden;">The novel's premise</h3>
    Enter a one of two line explanation of the novel. (Hint: Don't repeat the huge synopsis.)
    
    <h3 style="overflow:hidden;">Editing</h3>
    Quality: High:Average:Poor (Choose one)
    
    What issues made you choose the editing quality? (Example: typos, missing words, passive voice, content, etc...)
    
    <h3 style="overflow:hidden;">Imagination and Uniqueness</h3>
    Talk about the imagination the author must have used to create the world, the characters, the actions, etc...
    Talk about whether what was imagined is unique.
    
    <h3 style="overflow:hidden;">Characters</h3>
    Discuss the main characters (protagonists and antagonists) and how well the author did writing them. How well you identified with them, etc...
    
    <h3 style="overflow:hidden;">Magic System (fantasy) / Real Science (Science Fiction)</h3>
    If fantasy with magic, discuss the qualities of the magic system.
    If science fiction, discuss the actual science behind the story.
    
    <h3 style="overflow:hidden;">eBook Quality</h3>
    Quality: High:Average:Poor (Choose one)
    
    Discuss what made you choose eBook quality listed above.
    
    <h3 style="overflow: hidden;">Parental Guide</h3>
    <strong>Profanity:</strong> Were there F-words. (Search the eBook and count f-words them.) If profanity other than the f-word is used, it is usually minor swearing. Example: 3 f-words and other swearing. 
    <strong>Sexuality:</strong> Is their sex? Does it fade to black or get described. Tell us in a short sentence or two.
    <strong>Violence:</strong> Tell us in a short sentence or two about the blood and gore in this book.
    
    <h3 style="overflow:hidden;">About the Author</h3>
    Discuss the author. Read the about the Author page in the book and on their web site.
    
    
  6. Enter in the link URL and the image URL.
  7. Click on Visual tab and fill out each section. Share your opinions throughout.
  8. Select the categories. Review and 1-5 Stars.

See this review as an example: Fire Light by J. Abram Barneck

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