When I tell stories I get big belly laughs.  I thought it would translate to the printed page so I wrote a book while I was unemployed and called it "My Humor's Working (Even if I'm Not)." Now I need to get it reviewed so it will exist in the eyes of library and bookshop buyers.

Since I am unemployed, I am taking night classes to pick myself up from my bootstraps.  I brought the book to class and fellow students refused to pass the two copies to others.  Instead, they they laughed out loud, read out sections and gulped out things like "I love this one 'Your dog had a better childhood than your grandmother' ha ha ha, that's from thechapter  called "Clues tht you have a spoiled dog."  Clearly, the humor works.

Now I'm trying to get it into book stores and libraries.  I found that getting the book to their distributor isn't good enough.  They won't touch it unless there is a review of it in Publisher's Weekly, Booklist, and the Library Journal.  The new entry on Amazon is also looking unloved with nary a review. 

I did make an announcement on a LinkedIn group for writers and received this response:

"I went to Amazon and read the first chapter….about workplace feet…I was in my office laughing hysterically so loud…that I called in a co-worker and HE read it with me and started laughing too.
Then we started having the discussion about our feet…My feet, stay neatly, painted AND secure in closed toe shoes…I just don’t like showing my feet…even at home, my feet stay comfortable in SOCKS, SHOES, OR SLIPPERS….no one..not even my EX see my feet..unless they catch me, hold me down and rip the socks from them…LOL…
Great Read and my friend is ordering a copy as soon as he gets back to his desk..he’s also ordering one for me…
Posted by B. Swangin Webster"

I asked if the reader would post that to the Amazon page at:

http://www.amazon.com/My-Humors-Working-Even-Not/dp/145366288X/ref=sr_1_1?s=gateway&ie=UTF8&qid=1285340584&sr=8-1

Any suggestions on how to get the book in front of the influencers and buyers?