Thursday, September 22, 2011

Want Me to Review Your Book?

If you're an indie author, and you'd like a little publicity, I would be interested in reviewing your book on my blog.  My reviews are some of the most viewed posts on this blog, and if you like what I write, feel free to post links on your website or blog.  Some things to keep in mind:
  • If you are soliciting a review, you will have to send me a copy of your book.  If you are interested in a review, post a comment and we can discuss how you will get a copy of the book to me.
  • I will not review e-books.  I don't have an e-reader and I get headaches staring at the computer screen for too long.  Also, I like to flip through books to look things up as I write the reviews.  Paperbacks are fine (mass market or trade), even used ones as long as they're still mostly intact and not sticky or anything.
  • I will post on the review that you provided me with a copy.
  • I don't promise to write a glowing review.  I'm going to write my honest opinion.
  • Don't send me book 2 or 3 of a series without sending me all the volumes.  I complained about Amazon Vine reiewers in a post a couple of months ago.  In that program, people review book 3 of a series without having read book 1, and then don't understand half of it.  However, if you send me 3 books, I'll review all of them.
  • If I say something inaccurate in my review (like I get a character's name wrong), please feel free to contact me and we can discuss a revision.  But if what I say is true, or could be an interpretation arrived at by the average reader, it's staying.
  • If your book is available by web or on Amazon, I'll provide a link to the product page.  I'll also link to your website or blog.
  •  No links to Facebook  pages.  Twitter is now OK.
  • This is only for published books.  If you'd rather have the advice of an editor, I'm glad to do that too, for a fee.  (Reviews are free, except for providing me a copy of the book.)
  • I probably shouldn't have to say this, but I will only review books in English.  And I will only write reviews in English. 
  • No supernatural romance.  For an idea of the things I read normally, click on some of my library posts.   (Now conveniently collected in the page accessible by the "library" button above.)
Anyway, let me know if you're interested.

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