What's A Book Got To Do To Get A Review Around Here?

Getting book reviews are big currency in the self-publishing world.

A shit one is better than none at all, certainly if the Fifty Shades series is anything to go by.

But how do you get them?

I've approached a few bloggers and reviewers (very politely, I might add) and have yet to receive a reply, let alone a review.

I've resisted the urge to write my own under some alias or other as that just seems a toe-curlingy bad way to go.

But as I've only received a few on Amazon, I'm on the look out for new ways to get reads and comments, even if they're scathing.