I am accepting books for review again until August 1st, but you must read this before you submit.
I (reluctantly) need to become MUCH more selective about what I review. Between the work I do as an editor and beta-reader and the reviewing (and the rest of my life), I’m not finding enough time for my own writing. And I am a writer first, as I know you will all understand.
I will accept twelve books a year to review, so for the rest of 2016, I’m accepting SIX.
When you submit a review request, please include a few pages or link to a preview, as well as your webpage/Amazon/Goodreads links, and tell me a little bit about you as a writer. If you already have a fistful of reviews, I may decline; if I think I can’t do justice to your book, I will decline. I don’t want to add to the stress of marketing/publicizing indie books…believe me, I know about it.
And I promise this…I will reply to you. Not until after August 1st..but if this page says I’m accepting books for review, then I will reply, even if I’m declining to review your book, and I will let you know the reasons for my decision.
I review published or pre-publication works. My preference is for unusual fantasy/dystopia/sci-fi but will consider other work. But I am getting saturated with young adult fantasy, both dystopic and otherwise, so to do writers of that genre justice I’m going to turn those down for a while. I accept both e-books and paperbacks (but check regarding paperbacks as I travel frequently and may be away from my mailbox for some time!)
Please note that I do not automatically give four or five star reviews. I am a somewhat critical reader, wanting to see the same sort of quality in indie works that I would in a traditionally published work.
Requests to marianlthorpe (at) gmail.com, please.
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