Helpful information for someone getting more serious about reviewing and publishing reviews. Lots of ideas that I can refer back to!

I enjoy reviewing books and have been a member of Netgalley for some years. I’m always looking for ways to improve my reviews and make them appealing to potential readers. This little handbook really hits that spot and I’d recommend it to anyone who’s new to reviewing. It’s packed with tips and whilst much of it is common sense, it does provide a framework to shape all reviews. It can be daunting knowing where to start when you first set out as a reviewer. With the help of this guide, reviews will shape easily into concise and interesting pieces and will serve as a useful reminder for this occasions where you lose focus and don’t know quite what to write.

The NetGalley Book Advocate Toolkit gives so much great advice to newbies wanting to join and get into reviewing the books they read; I mean why not post your thoughts on what you read in the hopes it helps others? This book helped me to understand my Feedback Ratio and why it's so important. It also gives great information on where I can post my reviews such as Goodreads, Booktube, and BookTok, although I personally only tend to post to Goodreads and Amazon, as well as my own blog, when I remember I even have one. If you are new to requesting ARCs and posting your reviews, this is the perfect toolkit for you!

I would have preferred if it had been a form fillable pdf, and if the TOC had linked to the relevant sections.

Appreciating all your tips—being a newcomer to NetGalley, they’ve proven incredibly helpful.

Looking ahead, I’ll certainly incorporate these insights into my future reviews.

A big thank you to the NetGalley team!

This is a great little guide. Its such a.lovely thing for Netgalley to provide to their members. Very useful and full if helpful information

A comprehensive yet quick primer on leaving book reviews across the many digital review platforms currently available.

This was a very helpful tool and booklet to learn how to navigate NetGalley. I appreciate the time & work that the people at We Are Bookish put into it.

Thank you so much Netgalley for this resource! This kit gives you information about the Netgalley platform and how to utilize it. Not only that, it also gives helpful tips and tricks for writing reviews, and using the different social media platforms in the best way. I'm so glad that I found this kit, it will be a great help for my book journey

Love it and will use it to further improve my reviews. Helpful insights for making better content surrounding book reviews.

This intro really helped me plan the structure of my reviews. I am not yet a bookstagrammer or booktok reviewer but now I have some ideas to get started. I thought the section on what to do if you have “reviewer’s block” was very helpful. The graphics were a nice touch.

Very useful toolkit; Helps NetGalley members understand the platform, how to request books and give feedback, and what the feedback ratio means.
There are also tips on what information should be included in a review, how to write a review, how to then promote that review; (and one of my favorite sections) how to format a personal blog.

Thankyou NetGalley for this wonderful resource!!

Oh my gosh! Thank you NetGalley! I’ve been on here for probably 6+ months and I can’t believe I’m just right now finding this. This is extremely helpful!!

Thank you Netgalley for this title! This is essentially a graphic book on how to get started on bookish social media. I very much enjoyed the tips regarding booktok! this is helpful if you are just starting on your book reviewing journey!

Super helpful guide for book advocates. I’m relatively new to publishing book reviews and the specificity on what to include, particularly by platform, has been helpful in immediately reshaping my writing. Would definitely recommend this quick read for all book advocates at all stages in their reviewing journey.

This advocate toolkit is very helpful! While a lot of this information is stuff that I have picked up from being in and around the book community for many years, I'd definitely recommend it for people who are just starting out. It did help me learn what format they're really looking for in terms of quality reviews. So I'm excited to upgrade my reviews going forward.

Honestly this was amazing and super helpful. It gives a lot of helpful tips on giving reviews and it was a nice refresher because I've been sick and unable to give the kind of reviews I want. I really appreciate it.

I am new to NetGallery, and this book is extremely helpful to know how the website works.
I especially appreciate the tips on how to write a review and what publishers are looking for.

Thorough and has great tips on how to grow and maintain a well thought our NetGalley profile as well on how to review well!

Good tips, short read just to know what NetGalley is all about.
I especially liked it being an infographic so I could visualize what it's all about.
Do I think it's a necessary read before starting to review? no. Is it useful? yes.