Are there any magazines, journals, or newspapers that review *self-published* books?
Foreword Magazine (http://forewordmagazine.com) will review books that are self-published and from smaller presses. If the book has already been published, there will probably be a fee paid to Clarion Review Services. Yes it can be difficult to get your book into a library. I’ve often seen Booklist and Library Journal recommend that small and medium sized libraries not carry a book. That would be hard to swallow if you are an author! As a possible solution, you can get a book reviewed and then mail a press kit (your book, reviews, and other info about you) to a library. It will be hard for them to ignore you if your material is right in front of them, but it’s no guarantee. The advantages to self-publishing are that it’s fairly cheap to do and it’s often a quick process to get a book out there. The disadvantage is that in order to really get some attention for your book that could result in subsequent sales is that you may have
