Promotion: Where to Get your Book Reviewed
Promotion: Where to Get your Book Reviewed
As soon as you have the final, edited copy of your book, you should submit your book for reviews. If your book is submitted to ten reviewers, you will usually receive two reviews; thus, it's a good idea to send it to as many appropriate reviewers as possible
Make sure you don't send your book to a horror reviewer if your book is a romance. If our listing does not indicate a specific genre, the reviewer accepts all genres.
Follow each reviewer's instructions for submission or your request may be rejected. Submit to reviewers online and off (local papers are a good offline source.)
When submitting books for review, expect response to take 2-6 weeks. Unless otherwise stated, reviewers keep any hard copy of the book you send. (This is common practice among book reviewers.)
Many of the following guidelines are provided in the interest of not offending or disrespecting the reviewer-- if you offend them, they will not review your book. If you have any doubts about their requirements or questions, email the reviewer.
After you have submitted a book to any of the reviewers on our lists, check our news section to see if there is any update. Occasionally, reviewers will go on vacation or book review sites will shut down.
Always include (in the query or cover email) the following information:
We obtain our listings by visiting the sites. The listings below are accurate to the best of our knowledge as of the date given below. To confirm information, visit their respective webpages (click on the name/title to do so.) If you are informed that the review process for any of these has changed, or if you discover a link not working, please notify us.
Know of a reviewer we've left out? Submit reviewer information (include reviewer email address and URL) here.
Bonus Tip: Other Promotional Opportunities
Many of the reviewers also do author interviews. Check their web site for more information on this. Many also provide free listings or paid advertising opportunities to authors (meaning, you can have your book advertised on their site if you pay a fee.) Again, see each website for details.
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All Genres
That's right, we also do book reviews for authors (not for authors published by us, of course.) Send a query to Sirius Recommends with the information as noted in our guidelines above.
Book Review Cafe
Contact Lisa at lisasbookrev@aol.com with Title, Author's Name, Publisher, Copyright (month & year), Genre, ISBN.
Provide cover in .GIF or .JPG format. If your work is approved for reviewing, please mail a printed copy or a Galley copy or the actual book to address provided on the site. You may also contact her at the above address to request an author interview, including the same information as above.
Rebecca's Reads
Print books only. Does not review e-books. Subjects they will not accept: true life crime; coming-of-age fiction; religious tracts about doctrines &/or religious novels; poetry; fantasy; textbooks; horror; erotica or anything else that will affect their family rating, pulp romances, & self–help books that preach what the author does not practice.
Send query to editor@rebeccasreads.com. If requested, send book by mail to:
The Editor for Reviews, Rebecca's Reads.com, P.O. Box 371, Clallam Bay, WA 98326. Include an email address and a return address. All books will be donated to their local library.
SharpWriterReviews.com Reviews
Send information (see our list above and/or their site) to thewriteimpact@optusnet.com.au with copy of book attached in Word, RTF, HTML or pdf format. For print books, send information and you will be given the mailing address.
Sharpwriter Reviews II
Send information (see our list above) to Joan Gillham mailto:joan@atrax.net.au with copy of book attached in HTML or pdf format.
Midwest Book Review
Send: 1. A finished copy of the book (no galleys or uncorrected proofs); 2. An accompanying publicity release or media kit.
Allow 12 to 16-weeks. Publisher ebook submissions will be referred to one of our ebook specialists. Please email ebook review requests to mbr@execpc.com for referral to one of our ebook specialists. Do not send any attachments. Your assigned ebook specialist will notify you as to the format and address to which you must send the e-book.
InscriptionsMagazine.Com
For updated submission instructions, send a blank email to Inscriptions_2@sendfree.com.
Pamela Wilfinger, editor, Inscriptions Magazine (sends review copies to her freelancers). All adult genres reviewed. E-Mail: editor@inscriptionsmagazine.com. Print books should be sent to P. Wilfinger, Editor, c/o Inscriptions, 432 S. B Street,
Lake Worth, Fla. 33460 USA. Electronic books may be sent in e-mail to
MaidenFate@aol.com with the subject heading "Inscriptions," using .rtf, .txt
or .pdf format.
Under the Covers
Book Reviews
Query manatee@silcom.com. Ebooks and print books. You will be given the address to which you will send a hard copy. Unsolicited ebooks will be deleted unread.
Bookdragon Review
Contact the editor, Melanie C. Duncan, Editor/Publisher at TBR@bookdragonreview.com with a brief synopsis of your book for consideration.
Fiction Forest
Editor: Sandra Morgan (sandi@fictionforest.com)
Query reviews@ficionforest.com.
Note: Attempt to access site on 11/21/02 failed.
FOREWORD Magazine
Reviews all genres. Please see their site for submission details. Books or ARCs (a printout is acceptable) must be sent three to four months in advance of publication date. Include publisher's address and phone number in addition to information outlined in our guidelines above. Send to: Book Review Editor, Alex Moore, 129 1/2 East Front Street, Traverse City, MI 49684. To find out if a book is going to be reviewed, e-mail reviews@forewordmagazine.com 45 days after the submission's arrival. This is also the address for questions about the review process.
Huntress Reviews Reviews all Fiction Genres. Query huntress@huntressreviews.com.
Click on "Request A Review" on the bottom of their page then fill in the form to get your book reviewed.
Juvenile
Query TheSavvyClick@aol.com. Children's books (print and electronic). Current guidelines: http://www.thesavvyclick.com/reviews.htm
McQuark's Reviews
Reviews children's and young adult books that are available from e-publishers, including print-on-demand books and reissues of titles formerly out of print. Fill out their form at http://www.mcquark.com/submitting_reviews.htm before submitting books.
Romance
Affaire de Coeur
Fill out their form here.
Calico Trails
Online magazine. American Historical and Western Romance. Send query to Editor and Publisher Merry Stahel at stahel@aol.com.
Note: Web site is temporarily under construction as of 11/21/02. Please visit the site to see if they are accepting submissions.
Writer's Canvas
Romance, Poetry, Children's, historical, mystery. Email Pamela James for reviews or interviews at pjames19@hotmail.com
The Literary Times
Query littimes@tlt.com with title, release date, publisher, and a note about the book's setting, i.e. England 1800's. They will email you the name and address of the next available reviewer best suited to your genre.
Romance Reader on the Run
Ebooks (printed out) and print books. Manuscripts or ARCs OK. Send query by e-mail to ptullos@stx.rr.com.
Road to Romance
books (printed out) and print books. Manuscripts or ARCs OK. Query webmaster@roadtoromance.ca. Instructions found at http://www.roadtoromance.ca/authorsinfo.htmAlso offers promotional features.
Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror
Millennium Magazine
Query e-book review editor Pat Cavender at TnPC8331@aol.com.
Print or ebooks. Neil Walsh, Reviews Editor. For ebooks, query editor@sfsite.com. All materials for editorial consideration should be sent to: SF Site, 99 Fifth Avenue, Suite 302, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5P5 Canada.
Material must have "Commercial Sample: No Commercial Value" clearly marked on the outside of the package. Use regular airmail if you are shipping from outside of Canada; they will return packages sent via UPS unopened.
Future Fiction
Print books only. Science fiction, fantasy and alternative history genres (speculative fiction). Send an e-mail query to reviews@futurefiction.com with 1-3 chapter sample in Microsoft Word (preferred) or embedded in the body of the e-mail. Send print book to:
FutureFiction.com
P.O. Box 5116
Springfield, PA 19064-5116
Science Fiction Weekly
Query scifiweekly@scifi.com. Send print book to:
Science Fiction Weekly,
28501 Woodview Drive,
Damascus, MD 20872
sffworld.com
Not currently accepting reviews as of 11/21/02; see site to confirm this. Other services available include: Book Excerpts will be featured with a link to a bookstore for people to buy the book (submit query through their form); Featured author (send short biography as well as a complete bibliography); Request to be Interviewed through form; Short Stories (see site for guidelines); Book Synopsis and link to bookstore (submit through form.)
Raven's Reviews No Longer Accepting Queries.
From their site: "This site is closed for submissions Our apologies, but this site is no longer updated regularly. If we decide to re-open, we may accept submissions in the future. Until then, best of luck!"
Lisa's Reviews is now Book Review Cafe
Lisa is still accepting books for review. See our listing above.
Just
Views is No Longer Reviewing Books
Brenda Ramsbacher, Managing Editor, announced that they will not be listing or reviewing books until further notice. They do offer interview and author listing services, so check out their site if you are interested in book promotion.
Past News:
GenrEZONE Folds
Just recently, we visited GenreZONE, which used to be on our review list, and found that the site had been shut down. Therefore, if you submitted an e-book to them, there will be no review.
Painted Rock Closes Reviews
From their site: "Beginning June 1, no new reviews will be posted. Painted Rock will no longer review books. We have made this decision in order to concentrate our efforts and resources on writer education." Interestingly, new reviews were posted on June 4, 2001. Apparently, they are not accepting any more books for review.
Sleepless Resources Disappears
Sleepless Resources, formerly located at www.sleepless.to, is gone. There is no notice or explanation at the former site.
Another Mystery
Mysterybuff.com now has only a notice that says the new website is coming soon. Apparently the magazine no longer owns this domain name.
Affaire de Coeur Now Bimonthly
From their site: "Due to the increasing cost of producing Affaire de Coeur and little or no advertising support and the serious illness of our editor we unfortunately have to change our magazine production dates. Affaire de Coeur will now be published bi-monthly instead of monthly. We are hoping this plan is only temporary." They will also be introducing some new sections, including interviews.
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