I am open to solicitations for books in the following genres only:

• Dark fantasy
• Urban fantasy
• Graphic Novels
• Horror
• No zombie fiction, military horror, erotic horror, slasher novels, Bizarro, serial killer horror, Weird Fiction, derivations of H.P. Lovecraft, or post-apocalyptic/dystopian material, please.

What I DON’T review:

• Children’s and YA
• Literary fiction
• Christian or inspirational fiction
• Science fiction (hard/light, YA, SFR)
• Erotica
• Mystery
• Straight Westerns
• Romance
• Non-fiction
• Please note: I make my own picks in crime, paranormal romance, and historical fiction, so please don’t pitch those to me.

Format: I accept both electronic and physical review copies, but physical review copies need to be shipped to Canada. I also accept advance reader copies, and am a member of Netgalley.

I am open to guest blogs from authors, and if you would like to include a giveaway as part of your post or interview, I am only accepting this if your giveaway copy is digital, or if you or your publisher will pay for shipping to the winner within USA and Canada.

Self-published authors: If you are a self-published or indie author, please mention that in your correspondence as I am considering these books on a case-by-case basis and give priority to books from traditional publishers.

Please note: I do not guarantee a review of your book, and am agreeing to consider it for review. At this point, due to the volume of requests I receive each week, I will only review books that I thought favourably of. I try to respond to all correspondence, but if you don’t hear back in 3 to 5 days, assume I’m not interested. As well, please don’t attach your book to your initial email if we don’t have previous correspondence. I receive many books and have a limited schedule, and prefer to devote my time not on books that I didn’t like, but rather on those that I did. As well, please refrain from emailing me to see if I’ve read your book yet. However, if you want to verify that I received the book, that is acceptable.

Timing: Each book I receive is added to a reading queue and I am to have reviews ready within six to eight weeks upon receipt of the book, but this varies depending on my schedule.

Cross-posting Policy: Unless you ask me to cross-post, I don’t automatically do this for every book review (i.e. post a review on Amazon, Goodreads, Shelfari, LibraryThing, or other social cataloging websites).

Please use the contact page for all solicitations, or send me an email here.

Film Reviews:
I review based on my own choices and prefer not to be asked to review films as I don’t accept solicitations on what to feature. If this changes, I will make an announcement on this page.

FTC Disclaimer: unless otherwise noted, all books reviewed here or linked to other pages where I do reviews have been provided by the publisher, publicist, or author for the purpose of review. I receive no payment for reviews.

Disclosure Policy: This policy is valid from 07 June 2010

This blog is a personal blog written and edited by me. For questions about this blog, please refer to the contact page in the menu. This blog does not accept any form of cash advertising, sponsorship, or paid topic insertions. However, we will and do accept and keep free products from companies and organizations. The owner of this blog will never receive compensation in any way from this blog. The owner of this blog is not compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely the blog owners. If we claim or appear to be experts on a certain topic or product or service area, we will only endorse products or services that we believe, based on our expertise, are worthy of such endorsement. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer or provider. This blog may contain content which might present a conflict of interest. This content will always be identified.

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I also write book reviews for Hell Notes, Geeks of Doom, Horrorcentric, Monster Librarian, Buried.com as La Belle Morte, and Horror World. I have written for Blog with Bite in the past.

Thank you!