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January 09, 2007
Reviewing
Reviewing and reviewers. I should say that I
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I was struck by this problem myself when my novel came out. It was ignored by most of the review organs and so I signed up with PW to be a fiction reviewer, with the hopes that from there I could develop my reviewing skills and somehow make a difference by reviewing neglected books. Especially small press books, which are not always of interest to the established reveiw organs. It is a problem, I agree with you. How do we develop alternate review sites? I know there are some great blog reviewers out there (though I couldn’t get many of them interested in my book, even when I offered them review copies). I suppose many of the blog reviewers want to establish their own legitimacy and so don’t want to risk reading books that might be really bad, and not on most people’s radar. But this seems to me one of the huge issues in publishing today—how do we develop a viable alternative to the big press system, one that allows small books of odd subject matter (mine was about a woman who had visions and went to a visionary commune) to be brought to the attention of a potentially-interested reading public?
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Posted by annie gilson 01/09 09:24 AM