The Book Bloggers

Blog Name: Best Fantasy Stories
Blog URL: http://bestfantasystories.com
RSS or Atom Feed Address: http://feeds.feedburner.com/bestfantasystories
Blog Owner: Scarlett Moore

1. What motivated you to create a book review blog?
For several years I’ve been reading books and providing mini-reviews for family and friends during book swaps. Two years ago I discovered blogging and felt it provided a great medium for sharing my opinions of books.

2. What do you find most rewarding about book reviewing?
The social networking aspect. I’ve met some amazing fellow book readers, bloggers, and writers. I particularly enjoy connecting with readers outside the U.S. The site has allowed me to make contact with people from all over the
world. I also love hearing from people who have read books based on my recommendations.

3. What types of books do you review?
I primarily review contemporary and urban fantasy, a subgenre of fantasy. Urban fantasy books contain magical, supernatural, and/or paranormal components, all occuring in a modern day setting. Urban fantasy, although a subgenre, is fairly varied and contains titles that can be categorized as action-adventure, romantic, drama, comedy, and mystery. I review all types of urban fantasy.

4. In what genre do you consider yourself to have the most expertise?
Urban fantasy.

5. Is there any type of book that you absolutely will not review?
I don’t review non-fiction, historical, or children’s books. I also don’t review books that firmly fall into the romance or erotica genre. However, I do review paranormal romance books.

6. Do you accept submissions from self-published authors?
Yes.

7. Do you accept PDF versions or e-books for review?
No, physical books only. However, if someone wants to provide a Kindle along with the e-book, I might reconsider . . .

8. Can an author guest blog for you?
Yes, if that author’s work has been previously or recently accepted for review. My readers love to hear what
authors have to say about the books they write.

9. Do you host book giveaways?
Yes and one of my New Year’s resolutions is to host a book giveaway contest every other month.

10. Do you interview authors?
I haven’t yet but I’d love to.

11. Do you ever host stops on an organized book tour?
No.

12. What is the average turnaround time for a review, from the time the
book arrives in your mailbox until the review is posted?
It takes between 2-3 weeks for me to read the book and get a review written and published on the site.

13. Do you cross-post reviews to Amazon or other sites?
For promotional purposes I may post reviews of the same book at different sites but each article is always original in accordance with Google’s duplicate content guidelines.

14. Will you notify an author by email when a review is posted?
Once a book has been selected for review the author is notified upon receipt of the book. I also notify the author once the review is published.

15. Do you have any specific requirements for review submission?
The review request should include a synopsis of your book, the publication date, a link to your website, and your preferred timeline for getting the book review published. Also indicate whether you’d like me to host a book giveaway contest (you’ll need to provide a final, bound copy of your book for this purpose). And of course, the book must fall into the urban/contemporary fantasy subgenre.

16. Where can authors submit review queries and to whom should they be addressed?
Please submit inquiries to Scarlett Moore at questions [at] bestfantasystories [dot] com.

Blog Name: 52 Books and 52 Weeks
Blog URL: http://52booksand52weeks.blogspot.com
RSS or Atom Feed Address: feed://52booksand52weeks.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
Blog Owner: Ellie
1. What motivated you to create a book review blog?
I have loved reading my whole life, and I also love blogging, and after I realized tons of people have book blogs, why not combine the two?

2. What do you find most rewarding about book reviewing?
Being part of a community and finding out about all these awesome new books!

3. What types of books do you review?
* YA
* Adult
* Historical Fiction
* Romance
* Chick Lit
* Realistic Fiction
* Pretty much everything except non-fiction

4. In what genre do you consider yourself to have the most expertise?
YA/Teen

5. Is there any type of book that you absolutely will not review?
Horror or Harlequin Romance

6. Do you accept submissions from self-published authors?
Yes

7. Do you accept PDF versions or e-books for review?
I’ll consider it.

8. Can an author guest blog for you?
I haven’t yet, but I’m open to it!

9. Do you host book giveaways?
Again, I haven’t but am totally open to that and willing.

10. Do you interview authors?
Not yet but I would like to.

11. Do you ever host stops on an organized book tour?
I haven’t but I would.

12. What is the average turnaround time for a review, from the time the book arrives in your mailbox until the review is posted?
Around 2 weeks to 6 weeks; if you need a review earlier and tell me, I will do my best to oblige.

13. Do you cross-post reviews to Amazon or other sites?
Sometimes.

14. Will you notify an author by email when a review is posted?
If they ask me to.

15. Do you have any specific requirements for review submission?
Please include a detailed description of the book including genre, intended age group, and the official release date..
Please also state what you are looking for, when you want the review by, previous books that you have written (if any) and anything else important.

16. Where can authors submit review queries and to whom should they be addressed?
Queries can be sent to Ellie at my52booksand52weeks AT yahoo DOT com, or you can comment/follow my blog at http://52booksand52weeks.blogspot.com and indicate that you are interested in sending me a copy of your book. Thanks!

Blog Name: OCD, vampires, and rants, oh my! (Also known as Genre Reviews.)
Blog URL: http://community.livejournal.com/genrereviews/
RSS or Atom Feed Address: http://community.livejournal.com/genrereviews/data/rss
Blog Owners: Anna and Sarah

1. What motivated you to create a book review blog?
The love of reading and book discussion. We’re sick, sick people who enjoy dissecting what we’ve just read and spouting off opinions, so it just made sense to start a book blog.

2. What do you find most rewarding about book reviewing?
Every so often, someone mentions how they found just the perfect book through one of our reviews, which is really what the book blog labour of love is all about, isn’t it?

3. What types of books do you review?
There are four genres we specialize in: fantasy, science fiction, horror, and romance. There tend to be a lot of line-blurring between the genres, so it just made sense to do the four of them together. (Think urban fantasy or paranormal romance, which both often have elements of all four genres.) We take YA fiction, erotica, alternate history, anthologies, LGBT, and some chick lit, as well as the standards in the genres.

4. In what genre do you consider yourself to have the most expertise?
Well, since there are two of us, there are two different answers to this one. Anna’s been reading fantasy forever, and the same could be said of Sarah and horror. Of course, the branching out happened back in high school, so we’ve got a pretty broad background in that reading thing.

5. Is there any type of book that you absolutely will not review?
We try to stick pretty close to genre fiction, hence the name. So anything outside of those genres isn’t something we’d put up on the blog.

6. Do you accept submissions from self-published authors?
Yes, absolutely!

7. Do you accept PDF versions or e-books for review?
Yes, yes we do.

8. Can an author guest blog for you?
Sure! If any author is interested, just zip over an e-mail to let us know what you’d like to talk about.

9. Do you host book giveaways?
Yes! We love giving away books.

10. Do you interview authors?
We haven’t yet, but would be willing.

11. Do you ever host stops on an organized book tour?
It’s not something we’ve done, but it’s something we’d consider.

12. What is the average turnaround time for a review, from the time the book arrives in your mailbox until the review is posted?
It varies, depending on how many books we have in queue and who’s doing the review. Most of the time we try to have a review up within two weeks of receiving the book.

13. Do you cross-post reviews to Amazon or other sites?
Shorter versions of reviews are cross-posted to appropriate livejournal communities with links to the full thing.

14. Will you notify an author by email when a review is posted?
If the author has sent the book, yes. If the book is something we’ve picked up on our own, not usually.

15. Do you have any specific requirements for review submission?
Just that it should fall into one (or more) of the genres: science fiction, fantasy, horror, romance. And, uh, if you’re contacting us through e-mail, please make sure your spam filters allow us to e-mail you back!

16. Where can authors submit review queries and to whom should they be addressed?
Queries can be sent to us through genrereviews AT gmail DOT com or through a livejournal private message, if you have an account.

Blog Name: Bitten by Books
Blog URL: http://bittenbybooks.com
RSS or Atom Feed Address: http://feeds.feedburner.com/BittenByBooks
Blog Owner: Rachel Smith - Mood Ring Media

1. What motivated you to create a book review blog?
I was reading about 4-6 books per week, and really needed a way to get all the thoughts about the books out of my head to concentrate on more books.

2. What do you find most rewarding about book reviewing?
The best thing about reviewing is when somebody can relate to a storyline or click with it and decide they want to purchase the book based on that review. The other really cool thing is that when this happens it supports authors of all levels in their genre.

3. What types of books do you review?
Anything in the paranormal fiction genre. This includes YA and kids, adult content, GLBT, romance, urban fantasy

4. In what genre do you consider yourself to have the most expertise?
Paranormal Fiction

5. Is there any type of book that you absolutely will not review?
Anything that promotes hatred, bigotry or intolerance of race, gender or religion.

6. Do you accept submissions from self-published authors?
Yes

7. Do you accept PDF versions or e-books for review?
Yes

8. Can an author guest blog for you?
Yes

9. Do you host book giveaways?
Yes, every week

10. Do you interview authors?
Yes

11. Do you ever host stops on an organized book tour?
Yes

12. What is the average turnaround time for a review, from the time the book arrives in your mailbox until the review is posted?
Our site says to allow 8-12 weeks, but typically about 8 weeks is the max.

13. Do you cross-post reviews to Amazon or other sites?
Yes

14. Will you notify an author by email when a review is posted?
Yes

15. Do you have any specific requirements for review submission?
Yes, authors can read our terms of review here: http://bittenbybooks.com/?page_id=3

16. Where can authors submit review queries and to whom should they be addressed?
After an author has read our terms of review and decides to move forward they can use our contact page
http://bittenbybooks.com/?page_id=20 to request a review of their book. We will then send them the required information for each submission.

Other information:
The focus of the Bitten by Books website is to provide book reviews for all types of paranormal fiction, urban fantasy and horror. Our team of over 30 reviewers share an avid love of all things paranormal and of course of books! You may see an occasional fantasy or Sci-fi review as well, as sometimes authors overlap genres or the genres incorporate one another. Bitten by Books prides itself on offering our readers honest book reviews, author interviews, interesting guest blog spots and fun contests. Whether you love paperback books or e-books, make http://bittenbybooks.com your only stop for all things in the paranormal fiction genre.

Blog Name: Patricia’s Vampire Notes
Blog URL: http://patricias-vampire-notes.blogspot.com/
Blog Owner: Patricia Altner

1. What motivated you to create a book review blog?
I wanted to share information about books I had read and blogging seemed the perfect way to do this. I also love the idea of introducing writers to readers.

2. What do you find most rewarding about book reviewing?
Hearing from someone that they enjoyed a book I recommended.

3. What types of books do you review?
Any fiction pertaining to the paranormal or supernatural. When I first began the blog I centered everything on vampire stories, but that’s no longer the case.

4. In what genre do you consider yourself to have the most expertise?
I have read a considerable number of vampire books throughout the years, but as I mentioned in question 3 I have expanded my horizons to include all paranormal stories.

5. Is there any type of book that you absolutely will not review?
Anything outside the paranormal/supernatural genre.

6. Do you accept submissions from self-published authors?
Yes, all are welcome!

7. Do you accept PDF versions or e-books for review?
I will, although I prefer print.

8. Can an author guest blog for you?
Absolutely! Authors are definitely welcome to do this.

9. Do you host book giveaways?
Yes. In fact there is a monthly giveaway for email subscribers. I have also held other contests.

10. Do you interview authors?
Yes. I have interviewed several authors for the blog

11. Do you ever host stops on an organized book tour?
Yes

12. What is the average turnaround time for a review, from the time the book arrives in your mailbox until the review is posted?
Usually 2 - 3 weeks although it can depend on what else may be going on.

13. Do you cross-post reviews to Amazon or other sites?
I post on Amazon and LibraryThing

14. Will you notify an author by email when a review is posted?
I will if requested.

15. Do you have any specific requirements for review submission?
None

16. Where can authors submit review queries and to whom should they be addressed?
send queries to Patricia Altner

Blog Name: Tez Says
Blog URL: http://TezMillerOz.wordpress.com
RSS or Atom Feed Address: http://tezmilleroz.wordpress.com/feed/
Blog Owner: Tez Miller

1. What motivated you to create a book review blog?
I needed an outlet for my opinions

2. What do you find most rewarding about book reviewing?
When people say they plan to buy a certain book, because my review helped them decide if it’s worth purchasing. Makes me feel useful

3. What types of books do you review?
Urban fantasy, futuristic, young adult.

4. In what genre do you consider yourself to have the most expertise?
Most books I read are urban fantasy.

5. Is there any type of book that you absolutely will not review?
Literature, or anything that involves a lot of thinking on the reader’s behalf to get the most out of a book - I expect authors to do the thinking for me

6. Do you accept submissions from self-published authors?
Ask first.

7. Do you accept PDF versions or e-books for review?
No, sorry. I spend too much time on the computer as it is

8. Can an author guest blog for you?
If I approve of their topic, or I choose one for them.

9. Do you host book giveaways?
Sure.

10. Do you interview authors?
Only if I could be bothered. Which is rare, but it’s happened in the past

11. Do you ever host stops on an organized book tour?
I haven’t before, but I’d be interested to.

12. What is the average turnaround time for a review, from the time the book arrives in your mailbox until the review is posted?
Books clearly marked as ARCs will be read almost immediately. Anything else has to get in line - I read books from shortest to longest, so the longer your book is, the longer it’ll take me to get around to reading it. If your book is 369 pages or less, I’ll start on it as soon as I finish the book I’m currently reading (which is 369 pages, if you were wondering where I pulled that number from).

13. Do you cross-post reviews to Amazon or other sites?
http://flamesrising.com (if my editor approves), Shelfari, Facebook, GoodReads. Unfortunately, Amazon requires you purchase something from them before they’ll let you review.

14. Will you notify an author by email when a review is posted?
If they request me to. Otherwise they can subscribe to my blog.

15. Do you have any specific requirements for review submission?
Hard copy books only. And you must be willing to post to Australia, because that’s where I live.

16. Where can authors submit review queries and to whom should they be addressed?
Tez Miller. Share the summary, and if I like it, I’ll pass on my postal address.

Add any information you’d like to share that wasn’t covered in the questions below.
I’m not much for romance, but if your book is urban fantasy or futuristic, I’ll try it. I prefer dark UF to light. I specifically request futuristic, not hard sci-fi as I probably won’t be able to wrap my mind around it. To give you a better idea of what I’m looking for, here are some of my favourite authors (with specifications when necessary):

YOUNG ADULT URBAN FANTASY: Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Rachel Caine, Cassandra Clare, Melissa Metz (Fingerprints series), Laurie Faria Stolarz

YOUNG ADULT FUTURISTIC: Marilyn Kaye (Replica series), Mary E. Pearson (The Adoration of Jenna Fox)

YOUNG ADULT: Rachel Cohn, Robert Muchamore, Alex Sanchez, Shelley Stoehr, Jacqueline Wilson

URBAN FANTASY: Jennifer Armintrout, Kelley Armstrong, Keri Arthur, Jes Battis, Rachel Caine, Kim Harrison, Mark Henry, Vicki Pettersson, Jennifer Rardin, Lilith Saintcrow, Jeri Smith-Ready, Rachel Vincent, Kit Whitfield, Kim Wilkins

THRILLER: Nicci French, Tess Gerritsen, Alex Kava (Maggie O’Dell series), M. J. Rose, Erica Spindler, P. J. Tracy

FUTURISTIC: Eve Kenin, Michele Lang, Michelle Maddox, Stephenie Meyer

Blog Name: Popin’s Lair
Blog URL: proudbookworm.blogspot.com
RSS or Atom Feed Address: http://proudbookworm.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
Blog Owner: Popin

1. What motivated you to create a book review blog?
I’m a bookworm, but I found myself reading a lot of books and then forgetting that I read them after a few months. So, I decided to make a list of books I’ve read, but as I did this I found myself writing little reviews for them. After that, I decided to open up a blog and just write my reviews there.

2. What do you find most rewarding about book reviewing?
I know you want an answer about the joys of book reviewing and getting books, but for me the most rewarding aspect of writing reviews is improving with Spelling and Grammar. I’ve always had a hard time with it and it isn’t something that comes to me naturally, so with each review and blog entry, I like the feeling that I’m improving as a writer.

3. What types of books do you review?
Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Thrillers, Romantic Suspense, Chic-lit, Historical Fiction, Dramas.

4. In what genre do you consider yourself to have the most expertise?
I would say Urban Fantasy and Thrillers.

5. Is there any type of book that you absolutely will not review?
Erotica.

6. Do you accept submissions from self-published authors?
I have accepted self-published authors in the past, but only if their book interests me.

7. Do you accept PDF versions or e-books for review?
I prefer paperbacks, but if the book sounds like something I’d read I might review it in PDF.

8. Can an author guest blog for you?
Of course.

9. Do you host book giveaways?
Sometimes, in my blog history I’ve only hosted 4 book giveaways.

10. Do you interview authors?
Yes. Though, I haven’t done a lot.

11. Do you ever host stops on an organized book tour?
Yes, I’m currently a part of the Pump up your Book promotion.

12. What is the average turnaround time for a review, from the time the book arrives in your mailbox until the review is posted?
It depends if it’s for review or not. If it’s a book I won, then I’ll wait a bit. If it’s a review copy, I try to finish it either by the week or at the latest within a month.

13. Do you cross-post reviews to Amazon or other sites?
Yep. Along with my blog, I post the reviews on Amazon, Library Thing and the Internet Book Database.

14. Will you notify an author by email when a review is posted?
Only if they ask me to.

15. Do you have any specific requirements for review submission?
As long as it’s in book form, I don’t really have any other requirements.

16. Where can authors submit review queries and to whom should they be addressed?
If an author wishes to contact me, my email is proudbookworm and from there we can hash out the details.

Blog Name: Peeking Between the Pages
Blog URL: http://peekingbetweenthepages.blogspot.com
RSS or Atom Feed Address:
Blog Owner: Darlene

1. What motivated you to create a book review blog?
What originally motivated me to create my book blog was wanting to have some kind of record of what I was reading and my thoughts on those books. I had been perusing book blogs for a while and thinking to myself how awesome they were while wondering if I could ever do that myself. Then when I started and got comments on what I was reading and people wanting to read it themselves I thought it was great and it spurred me on.

2. What do you find most rewarding about book reviewing?
Most rewarding to me is all these wonderful books I’ve gotten to read and review-a lot by new authors and many others from authors, publishers and other book bloggers. I’ve come across a lot of books I may not have before and enjoyed them so much. Secondly I’ve met so many wonderful people I now call friends. The blogging community is so much more than just people who stop by to comment and discuss a book you’ve read. For me, a lot of them have become people I care about.

3. What types of books do you review?
I love to review general fiction and historical fiction.

4. In what genre do you consider yourself to have the most expertise?
I would have to say general fiction. I love historical fiction but I’m not an expert on whether the facts are right or not, I just love the story and anthing I learn along the way so I do love to review them.

5. Is there any type of book that you absolutely will not review?
I won’t review self-help, non-fiction(although I will do a memoir if it sounds interesting to me), or business type books.

6. Do you accept submissions from self-published authors?
Yes, but only if the story sounds interesting to me, something I think I’d like to read.

7. Do you accept PDF versions or e-books for review?
This I don’t do. I don’t like to read books online due to my eyes-to hard to read for me. If an author can’t send an actual copy then no, I can’t read it.

8. Can an author guest blog for you?
Most definitely. I love when an author does a guest post or participates in an interview. I think it’s great that they take the time to share with everyone like that.

9. Do you host book giveaways?
Absolutely! I like to have one at least every week, two weeks at the most.

10. What is the average turnaround time for a review, from the time the book arrives in your mailbox until the review is posted?
I always try for a month. Sometimes things get busy and life gets in the way so on the safe side I’d like to say two-three months. When I get something from an author I like to make it a priority to read it as they were nice enough to send it to me.

11. Do you cross-post reviews to Amazon or other sites?
I post my reviews on Library Thing, Good Reads, Shelfari, Book Blogs, Chapters.ca and I will be starting to post on Amazon soon too.

12. Will you notify an author by email when a review is posted?
Yes, I do. I send them an email telling them that I’ve read their book, what I thought and the link to the review. This is only for authors who have asked me to read their books though.

13. Do you have any specific requirements for review submission?
My only requirements are that I have a hard copy of the book and also an understanding with the author that I will post an honest but fair review. If I didn’t care for a book I will say so. I believe in being honest with those reading my blog.

14. Where can authors submit review queries and to whom should they be addressed?
Review queries can be sent to Darlene (Dar) at bj19662001

Blog Name: Jenn’s Bookshelf
Blog URL: http://jennsbookshelf.blogspot.com/
RSS or Atom Feed Address:
Blog Owner: Jennifer Lawrence
1. What motivated you to create a book review blog?
I love to read; I’ve been reading and recommending books for some time now. I created my blog as a way to share my reviews of books with my friends that live all over the world.

2. What do you find most rewarding about book reviewing?
The community! Book bloggers are amazing people.

3. What types of books do you review?
All types of fiction. My “favorites” are popular fiction, indie books, and horror fiction

4. In what genre do you consider yourself to have the most expertise?
Popular fiction and horror.

5. Is there any type of book that you absolutely will not review?
Typically, I don’t like to review non-fiction books like cookbooks, etc.

6. Do you accept submissions from self-published authors?
Yes!

7. Do you accept PDF versions or e-books for review?
Yes! I have a Sony Reader so I am able to read pdfs on the go!

8. Can an author guest blog for you?
Yes

9. Do you host book giveaways?
Yes

10. Do you interview authors?
I haven’t yet, but I am willing.

11. Do you ever host stops on an organized book tour?
Yes, I’ve done two so far, have three more planned in the next month.

12. What is the average turnaround time for a review, from the time the book arrives in your mailbox until the review is posted?
It depends on the release date of the book, typically I post my review the week before or the week of a book’s release. If an author or publicist has asked for a different timeline then make sure I follow through with their request.

13. Do you cross-post reviews to Amazon or other sites?
Yes, I post on Amazon

14. Will you notify an author by email when a review is posted?
Yes

15. Do you have any specific requirements for review submission?
No

16. Where can authors submit review queries and to whom should they be addressed?
Jennifer Lawrence (jenlaw77)

I’m also a reviewer on bookbitch.com and would be willing to post my reviews on that site as well.