
Member Reviews

The NetGalley Toolkit is a practical and well-structured guide for book reviewers and influencers looking to optimize their profiles, write effective reviews, and engage with publishers. It provides clear and actionable tips, such as how to craft a professional bio, highlight bookish reach, and ensure links are up-to-date. The book review tips are especially helpful, reminding reviewers to focus on plot summaries, audience relevance, and personal voice while avoiding spoilers and proofreading mistakes.
With a clean layout and concise advice, this toolkit is a valuable resource for both new and experienced reviewers who want to build credibility and strengthen their connections with publishers. If you’re active on NetGalley, this is definitely worth a read!

This guide is very helpful, but seems strange to have to review the user guide to keep my feedback ratio up.

I found this helpful like app the materials I’ve gotten from we are bookish. I appreciate the help that’s offered to help get better at using netgalley. Thank you for the opportunity to read this.

The Book Advocate Toolkit was a very helpful guide to understanding how to navigate NetGalley and what publishers and authors are looking for. Understanding the feedback ratio was my biggest takeaway. Thank you!

As someone who recently started using NetGalley, it helps a lot and I regret not reading this sooner.
It provides a thorough insight into how NetGalley works. I didn't know I needed this and it helped me a lot. I hope I can use the tips in writing more insightful reviews in the near future.

Really useful guide to start your journey here on NetGalley, it has all the information you need and the illustrations makes everything more understandable and funny to read.

Wonderful resource for new users! It contains of good tips on how to present yourself and how to use the platform. I would recommend it for all users to review.

This was very helpful as a new reader and reviewer on NetGalley! This gave me tips to make my bio more approachable and informative to publishers. It also gave insight on the "will not review" feature if there was a DNF.

This was an incredibly helpful resource for learning how to navigate NetGalley and the best way to succeed using the platform and connecting with publishers. Thank you to We Are Bookish for putting this together. I'm excited to take the next step in my book-reviewing and content-creation journey.

This Book Advocate Toolkit and Guide was extremely helpful. I loved the graphic design, figures, examples, and my overall reading experience. Thank you for making this resource available!

Fab resource with everything you need to know! Nice and visual and well laid out to help you to navigate to the relevant sections you need

So much helpful information! It was all very well organized. I am very new to NetGally so this PDF was very informative but not overwhelming. I also liked that it was interactive so you could click on things and it would take you to that part of the document. Very well done!

The Book Advocate Toolkit provided an in-depth instruction for how to better navigate the website and better insight to what the publishers and authors are looking for when approving requests. The toolkit provided ways to improve the NetGalley experience including a guide to using the NetGalley Shelf app, and lots of great tips for improving your profile. I made some changes to my profile in order to better reflect my personality and reading habits. #BookAdvocateToolkit #NetGalley

Read to double check I had the right information and also learned some great tips to save for the future!

This guide was incredibly helpful in starting my NetGalley journey. It was clear, concise and easy to read. It has prompted me to make some changes to my profile and has given me a better insight into the importance of feedback ratios. Overall this toolkit was incredibly informative and helpful.

This pamphlet was helpful on how to navigate netgalley, and be a contributing member of the community. It lays out expectations, how to request books, but also shares tips on how to be successful in your bookish role. It's a great how to guide!

Helpful content to assist me with applying for and reviewing eARCs. I liked the infographic style of the text.

great guide! really thankful tips and tricks for using netgalley, recommended to anyone who's just getting started and wants to review books!

thank you netgalley for this useful guide you provided for us beginners. it contains everything you need to know before using this amazing tool

Great guide! I’ll definitely be using the tips mentioned. Thanks for creating this guide! I learned so much. I wasn’t sure what to do if there were flaws or not so great things about a book that I was supposed to be reviewing. I hate saying g something g bad about something some spent so much time working on.