You might be able to come up with an original slant that other author didn't cover in her article or a topic that you could research for your next article.

7. Use questions you get from your subscribers, visitors, or customers for ideas.

Questions that you get on a regular basis can be an excellent source of new ideas and topics that will appeal to your target audience.

8. Go to a seminar or marketing conference.

In addition, to finding more new article topics, you'll be able to learn new things and gain more contacts.

9. Conduct an interview.

You'll be able to get a new article from interview itself.

The person you interview could also bring up things in their responses that you could do some research on for a new article.

10. Run a survey.

Ask your participants what topics they're interested in learning more about in your e-zine or on your site, and you'll be able to get more new ideas and topics.

What I like to see in a request is not “hype” but rather a brief resumé of contents of book, who author is, if book is published by a main stream publisher or is it self-published, and if book is available on Amazon. Bookpleasures also conducts e-interviews with some authors, and if author is open to have himself or herself interviewed, please indicate.

If you are a publicist or publisher, don’t be afraid to put Bookpleasures as well as other book reviewing sites on your emailing list. You never know when something catches our eyes. Sometimes you may be publicizing a particular book, and our reviewers will look to your site and see something else that interests them.

As for time frame, this all depends on reviewer. Anywhere from one week to three months is norm. You can ask reviewer to give you some idea as to his or her time frame. You can also inquire as to his or her credentials. Bookpleasures does provide links to reviewers’ site that should give you some idea as to their experience.

I do hope this is of help to some of you.

Norm Goldman is editor of bookpleasures.com, a book reviewing site, and sketchandtravel.com, a travel site.

Norm is a regular book reviewer for his own site, bookpleasures.com, as well as for Amazon.com: Blether.com: Bookideas.com: Midwestbookreview.com: and many others.