Today is launch day... more importantly; today is Rate & Review day.

So why should you take your precious time and write a review for The Life Engineered on Amazon? Because reviews are incredibly important to the visibility of a book and visibility is what helps a novel get into the hands of readers who will appreciate it and thus increase the chances that it will be a success.

Amazon’s system relies on certain milestones being reached before including certain books onto various levels of their platform. What the numbers are and how they impact visibility is a moving target, but what we’re aiming for is between 50 and 70 reviews. You can read more about why reviews are important in this awesome blog post on the subject, but trust me; reviews are extremely important. YOUR review is extremely important.

Here’s what you need to do:

1. Read the book
2. Go to the Amazon page for The Life Engineered
3. Scroll down to Customer Reviews and click on the ’Write a customer review’ button
4. Pick a rating between 1 and 5 stars (preferably 5, but I’m biased)
5. Write a review. This can be as in depth as you want, but if you don’t have the time or inclination, even just writing "I liked it!" is enough.
6. Submit the review and bask in the satisfaction of a job well done.

That’s it. That’s all you need to do. Congratulations; you’ve changed my life.

Oh! Hey, today’s the day of my Sword & Laser interview. You might want to leave me a question about The Life Engineered on their Goodreads thread for that very purpose!

Thank you.

J-F Dubeau

Greetings sentients,

This is the very last day before the official release of The Life Engineered. It’s an exciting but important time for the book’s release and would like to recruit you in helping make this as good an event as possible.

However, as your time is precious and you likely receive several of these updates every week, I’m compiled all you need to know in a tidy bullet list:

1. Most of you should have received your copies of the The Life Engineered by now and, if you’ve read it and enjoyed it, then it would be of tremendous help to the success of the book if you could write a short review and rate it on Amazon and/or Goodreads. Even something as simple as “I liked it.” with a five star rating can do wonders to get The Life Engineered in front of more readers.
2. Tomorrow, I will be a guest on the Sword & Laser podcast with Tom and Veronica and YOU can participate by submitting questions for the interview on the Sword & Laser Goodreads forum.
3. So far I’ve received three photos of copies of The Life Engineered in the ‘wild’. If you see The Life Engineered at your local book store, take a photo and tweet it to me @jfdubeau. Add the hashtag #scifiBook.
4. Keep an eye on my Facebook page for information on the various media mentioning The Life Engineered as well as any appearances and interviews I might be doing in the following day (including an interview on Beyond the Playlist with J. Hammond C, a review on Examiner.com, an interview on Examiner.com, etc.)
5. If you live in the Montreal area, you can join me for the official book launch party at Argo Bookshop at 7PM EST on March 3rd. I’d love to see you there.

As always, thank you for your support. This has been a great ride so far and I hope it can keep going for a long while. Next step: the sequel!

Regards, JF