How Authors are Using the Helix Review

Back in May we launched an experimental new offering called Helix and dubbed it The Personality Test for Your Book. Helix is powered by The Book Genome Project, a massive database of over 100,000 of the world’s best-known books. And basically, it gives you a way to upload your manuscript and get back a rich and unbiased perspective on your book.

Several Lulu authors are using Helix to gain a better understanding of their book for marketing, and sometimes to gain insight into their writing style. For the first time, we’ve caught up with some of the earliest Helix Review customers to hear more about their book and writing style and what they hoped to learn from Helix.

Meet the first authors to use the Helix Review

Starting on Monday, August 5th – we’ll begin profiling the very first, the bold and brave, the curious and pioneering partakers of Helix, in an ongoing series of interviews through the end of October. Our feature schedule is below, and as we release new interviews, we’ll update this post with links directly to them.

The Helix Review Featured Authors Schedule

Week	Author	Book Used for Helix	Genre
Aug 5	Kay Gossage	The Sword Of Ages: The Tallah Trilogy	Fantasy
Aug 12	Gregory L Truman	Hitting the Wall	Business and Economics
Aug 26	Cristina Archer	The Recidivist	speculative fantasy fiction
Sep 2	Oluwagbemiga Olowosoyo	God’s General	Fiction
Sep 9	Abdul Karim Musaliar	The Transgressions of Achan Kunju	Crime
Sep 9	John Locke	Stuff I’ve Written So Far	Political Science
Sep 23	Laird David Elsworth Mason	My McCurdy Family and Collateral Lines Including Native American and Some Royal Family	Family History and Genealogy
Oct 7	Gary Briley	Stalemate	Mystery, suspense
Oct 14	Jack Gunthridge	Broken Hearts Damaged Goods	Romance
Oct 21	William J. Smith	Straight from Heaven; Delivered from Hell	Science Fiction

Closing Thoughts

Thanks in advance to everyone above who contributed their feedback as part of our Helix Review featured author series. If you are an author that has used Helix and would like to be featured, please tell us about your experience here.