The Midwest Book Review is run by editor-in-chief Jim Cox. Established in 1976 to help promote literacy, library usage and small press publishing.

MBR started as a one hour weekly radio show on WORT-FM and debuted as a weekly 30 minute television show called Bookwatch on WYOU-TV, in Madison, Wisconsin. Now, it’s solely online via the MidwestBookReview.com website with nine monthly book review publications: Bookwatch, California Bookwatch, Children’s Bookwatch, Internet Bookwatch, Library Bookwatch, Small Press Bookwatch, MBR Bookwatch, Reviewer’s Bookwatch, and Wisconsin Bookwatch. The magazines are curated by Cox’s team of 81 volunteer book reviewers from across the country.

The hour with Jim revealed how to:

• Make the cut and get your book reviewed.
• Get the Inside Skinny for Book Views from #MidwestBookReview.
• Grab the attention of a book reviewer.
• Tips for “how to make the cut” for a book review
• Identify the book review trolls and scammers pretending to be book reviewers
• Deal with a bad book review.
• Land on the top of the book pile for a book review.
• Find legit book reviewers.
• Use 3 essential questions to ask any book reviewer after book is sent.

If you don’t want you and your book to be rejected, then the AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing podcast is for you. Judith Briles and her guest Jim Cox have lots to share in this episode of the AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing podcast.