Who I will review

[annathepiper]

As a general FYI, I thought I’d post about who all I’m willing to write reviews for. As y’all know I do try to write reviews for everything I read, even though I am often (like now) seriously behind on doing so; that lag time would be why I don’t try to run a formal review site. ;)

But, since I do try to write reviews for everything, I’ve been asked if I’ll review self-pubbed books. I have no particular bias against self-pubbed books and have in fact reviewed one before: lyonesse and her excellent werewolf novel was one such I’ve done before. I don’t tend to do self-pubbed books mostly because I have so many traditionally pubbed books on my radar that I have no wherewithal to spare to go out and find the good self-pubbed books. So if I’m to hear about them, usually it’ll be via people I already know who are publishing themselves.

Assuming that I do hear about a self-pubbed book, whether I will actually read it will depend on a) whether I have some familiarity with the author’s prose, and b) if it’s in a genre I’m likely to enjoy. So if you’re reasonably able to put your words in coherent order and you write in any of the genres I like, I’m willing to read you. And if I read you, I will review you. Especially if you’re willing to fling me a review copy. I’ll never say no to a free book.

(This goes, by the way, for people published through small presses as well as people who self-pub.)

If you’re on Goodreads, I’ll post a review there. And I’ll try to cross-post the review to anywhere your book is being sold if you point me at appropriate links!

Please do be advised though that at this time I’m seriously behind on my posted reviews for the year–I just put up #14 and I’ve already read well over 70 books so far this year. I’m trying to get caught up. And there are at least a few reviews I’ve promised to people that I need to specifically do as well!

Any questions, feel free to drop a comment!

Mirrored from annathepiper.org.

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[ysabetwordsmith]

Do you read ebooks? Do you like poetry? My two poetry books, From Nature's Patient Hands: A Collection of Poetry and Prismatica: Science Fiction Poetry Spanning the Spectrum, are available in PDF format so I can afford to give away review copies of them. Both are listed on Goodreads (and I'm on there as an author if you wish to connect). If you're interested, get me an email address where I can send the PDFs.

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[annathepiper]

I've already read you, actually! You know me from the Outer Alliance list as well. I read both of your poetry PDFs in April; you're in the queue of reviews I'm behind on writing and I'm trying to work my way forward through the year ASAP. Hence my recent spate of review posts. :) I did already drop ratings for you on Goodreads, but proper reviews are on the way.

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[ysabetwordsmith]

Ah, all right. I checked for reviews but not ratings.

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[annathepiper]

And thanks again for letting me have at the PDFs! Poetry is not normally my thing but I appreciated the opportunity to step outside my usual reading comfort zone. :)

Re: Okay...

[ysabetwordsmith]

You're welcome! I enjoy introducing people to poetry, who don't usually read it.