I review many types of books: old, new, classic, genre fiction as well as literary fiction, and nonfiction. My fees are based on scale relative to word count and the complexity of the book. I write three types of reviews: Snapshot ($250), Standard ($350) or Scholarly ($550). My book reviews are balanced and fair. I post my reviews on multiple platforms. It is important to note that my reviews are distributed to a proprietary list of book lovers, bookstores and the media. Interested? email me patricia@prforpeople.com
Here are examples:
The Snapshot Book Review captures the essence of a book in 50 to 200 words. $250
A Woman’s Story by Annie Ernaux
An Elephant in my Kitchen by Francoise Malby-Anthony
Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty by Phoebe Hoban
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Books We Love: Military Alphabet Coloring “Alpha 2 Zulu” by David Laing
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Colossus: A Novel About Goya and a World Gone Mad by Stephen Marlowe
Death Comes For The Archbishop by Willa Cather
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Fight the Fear by Dr. Jeffrey L. Gurian
Fleeing the Fate of the Little Rascals by Laura June Kenney
Healing Your Heart by Changing Your Mind by Dr. Jeffrey L. Gurian
How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill
How the Other Half Lives by Jacob A. Riis
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Memories of my Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Mogens and Other Stories by Jens Peter Jacobsen
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Not Under Forty: New Special Edition by Willa Cather
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
Owls and Other Fantasies by Mary Oliver
Picasso by Gertrude Stein
Showing Out by Timothy Reed
Suppose a Sentence by Brian Dillon
The Hawk's Way by Sy Montgomery
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
The Hummingbird's Gift by Sy Montgomery
The Lover by Marguerite Duras
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Road to Character by David Brooks
The Slip by Prudence Peiffer
The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
Union Street by Pat Barker
Vintage Munro by Alice Munro
White Fragility by Robin Diangelo
The Standard Book Review builds a community for the book in about 350 words. $350
A Man and Two Women by Doris Lessing
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Can You See Us Now by Cheryl Benton
Cornered by Barry C. Lynn
Democracy Awakening by Heather Cox Richardson
Dread of Winter by Susan Bickford
Even a Pandemic Can’t Stop Love & Murder Vol. 1: Break the Bank by A.E.S. O’Neill
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Love and Garbage by Ivan Klima
Managing Oneself by Peter Drucker
On Desperate Ground by Hampton Sides
Poverty, By America by Matthew Desmond
Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson
Small is Beautiful by E.F. Schumacher
The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
The Least Of Us by Sam Quinones
The Long Loneliness by Dorothy Day
Thoreau the Meter: Transcendental Treks on the Noir Shift by Joseph Ferguson
Yonkers in the Twentieth Century by Marilyn Weigold
The Scholarly Book Review brings in contextual information such as historical facts, and also positions the author among other authors who write similar books. The Scholarly Book Review aims to build a loyal following for the author, to enlarge the book’s community-of-interest, and to gain the attention of top-tier book reviewers. The Scholarly Book Review is over 750 words. $550
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Edna O’Brien Country Girl: A Memoir by Edna O’Brien
Get the Picture by Bianca Booker
Heretics and Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton
History: A Novel (Italian: La Storia), by Elsa Morante
How To Know A Person by David Brooks
Kings Row by Henry Bellamann
Record Store Day: the Most Improbable Comeback of the 21st Century by Larry Jaffee
Student Power, Democracy and Revolution in the Sixties by Nick Licata
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust Law in the New Gilded Age by Tim Wu
The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow
The Naïve and Sentimental Novelist: Understanding What Happens When We Write and Read Novels by Orhan Pamuk
The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch ****
We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland by Fintan O’Toole
We The Presidents by Ronald Gruner
White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain’s White Slaves in America by Don Jordan and Michael Walsh
Zero At The Bone by Christian Wiman