Review Policy

Darkeva’s Review Policy:

All information on this page is current as of December 2011.

ATTENTION authors/publicists/review request makers: I am remaining closed to review copy request solicitation until June 2012. This means I am not accepting new blog tour/review copy/interview/feature requests as per my post on June 26, which you can read here. I will issue an update when this changes.

Authors and Publicists – Promote your book here! Target fans of urban fantasy, supernatural fiction, and horror. 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. As well, I conduct giveaways, guest blogs, and interviews to promote titles in addition to cross-posting on Goodreads.

Note: I add each book that I request to a reading queue and aim to have reviews ready within four to six weeks of receipt of the book, but this varies depending on my schedule and may take longer in some cases. I do review from advance reading materials, and generally don’t post my review until the week before the book’s publication date. There is no guarantee that I will review materials sent to me. As well, if I believe a review has too many negative points, I will contact the author and prefer not to post a review in such cases.

Please take into account my reviewing interests below. If you send something in an area that I have flagged as something I’m not interested in, your message will go unread and deleted.

While I do consider ebooks and self-published books, please query in all cases.

My reviewing interests include:
-Horror (Clive Barker, Tom Piccirilli, Douglas Clegg, Thomas Ligotti, Edward Lee, Edgar Allan Poe, Matthew Lewis) –
Note – What I’m NOT interested in within horror: No zombie fiction of any kind, please. No erotic horror or slasher novels, Bizarro, serial killer horror, Weird Fiction, anything derivative of Lovecraft, and I’m not a huge fan of post-apocalyptic material, either.
-Dark fantasy (“Elric”/Michael Moorcock, Gormenghast/Peake, Neil Gaiman)
-Urban fantasy (More worldbuilding and plot, less romance. Think “Sandman Slim” by Richard Kadrey)
-Graphic Novels (think Fable, Sandman, Lucifer and Graveside Tales).
-General Fiction: Books with strong supernatural elements, and historical fiction, i.e. Name of the Rose

What I don‘t review:
I DO NOT review children’s, YA, literary fiction, science fiction (hard/light, YA, SFR), Erotica, Mystery, straight Westerns, Romance (including Paranormal). While I have reviewed non-fiction in the past, I rarely do.

Again, I cannot guarantee that I will review all books sent to me, but I do endeavour to make an effort. Please use the “Contact” page to get your book or your author’s book reviewed.

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 email link on the front page. 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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Thank you!