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Jim Cox Report: July 2025
Dear Publisher Folk, Friends & Family:
Even free reviews aren't really free. To the author and/or publisher there is the cost of producing a book, of creating and implementing a publicity campaign or a marketing program it, postage, and time.
That is why I always suggest to authors, publishers, and publicist that ten working days (skipping weekends and holidays) after you put a book into the mails to me (or anyone else) for review that you send me (or them) an email follow-up.
In the "Subject" line put "Status Request"
In the Message box put:
Title
Author
Publisher
ISBN
Then the following 3 questions:
1. Did the book arrive safely
2. What is its status with respect to getting reviewed
3. Is there any further information or assistance you can provide
The above is what I always recommended authors, publishers, and publicist do when sending a review copy to any reviewer or review resource (including the Midwest Book Review).
No legitimate reviewer will fail to respond. Note that you are not pitching the book (that's the job of your original cover letter and/or publicity release that accompanied the review copy of your book) whether it was in the form of an Advanced Reading Copy (ARC), a published copy (Hardcover or Paperback), an Ebook or a PDF file.
Quote of the Month
What you write can change someone's life.
-- Keiko O'Leary
Website of the Month:
How to Find a Grant to Sponsor Children's Books
https://penandthepad.com/grant-sponsor-childrens-books-7796300.html
"The Midwest Book Review Postage Stamp Hall Of Fame & Appreciation" is a monthly roster of well-wishers and supporters. These are the generous folk who decided to say 'thank you' and 'support the cause' that is the Midwest Book Review by donating to our postage stamp fund.
Kelly Gruber
Dennis Chepurnov
Dimitrios Kasprzyk
Eric Silberstein -- "In Berlin"
Craig Lancaster -- "Jane, Divided"
Katherine Davis-Gibbon -- "Words"
Zafra Lerman -- "Human Rights and Peace"
Christine Foster -- "The Lemon Golf Diary"
Susanna Janssen -- "Once Upon a Continent"
Steven Frank -- "Woody Woodchuck: Lost in the Woods"
Phillip Kurata -- "The Israeli: A Work of Historical Fiction"
Ezra Stuyvesant -- "Questions about God and Life I Wish My Grandchildren Had Asked"
Angela Bier -- "Voices: A Young Adult Novel Blending Contemporary with Supernatural"
DRM100M LLC
Crazy Rooster Coffee
Gnome Road Publishing LLC
Elizabeth Frazier -- Waldmania! PR
In lieu of (or in addition to!) postage stamp donations, we also accept PayPal gifts of support to our postage stamp fund for what we try to accomplish in behalf of the small press community.
Simply log onto your PayPal account and direct your kindness (in any amount and at your discretion) to the Midwest Book Review at: SupportMBR [at] aol.com (The @ is replaced by "[at]" in the above email address, in an attempt to avoid email-harvesting spambots.)
If you have postage stamps to donate, or if you have a book you'd like considered for review, then send those postage stamps (always appreciated, never required), or a published copy of that book (no galleys, uncorrected proofs, or Advance Reading Copies), accompanied by a cover letter and some form of publicity release to my attention at the address below.
All of the previous issues of the "Jim Cox Report" are archived on the Midwest Book Review website at www.midwestbookreview.com/bookbiz/jimcox.htm. If you'd like to receive the "Jim Cox Report" directly (and for free), just send me an email asking to be signed up for it.
So until next time -- goodbye, good luck, and good reading!
Jim Cox
Midwest Book Review
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www.midwestbookreview.com
James A. Cox
Editor-in-Chief
Midwest Book Review
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Oregon, WI 53575-1129
phone: 1-608-835-7937
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