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From experience, I assume the temptation to imagine you will get a gross sales enhance from a evaluation by a "traditional" evaluate is a robust draw (and Ms. I was historically published, took my rights again (amicably) last spring and have since introduced out two tales by myself. Jane Friedman wrote a superb post on paid evaluations for indie authors, and PW has a recently updated article on the identical topic by Daniel Lefferts and Alex Daniel within the BookLife part for self-publishing authors.
Best to warn them ahead of time and avoid the potential adverse critiques that will result. Of course, depending on your style a few of these could also be anticipated and thus pointless to mention. By not calling it out, you run the chance of a reviewer being left unsatisfied and presumably leaving unfavorable suggestions. Many readers might be fantastic with that, however