Tag: reviews
A Dating Service for Books and Book Clubs — GalleyMatch
GalleyMatch has just launched a ‘matchmaking program’ that brings together book clubs with publishers and authors. The brainchild of authors Judy Gelman and Vicki Levy Krupp, GalleyMatch gets arcs (newly released books)...
Amazon’s New Review Policy
For the last few months, Amazon has been changing its review policy and implementing new review standards. Authors have complained about reviews being taken down, or disallowed, and it seems to be...
Women Authors Reviewed Less Than Men
In a recent study by VIDA Women in Literary Arts organization, men outnumber women as both authors and reviewers in prestigious literary journals.
Male authors were reviewed sometimes 2-to-1 in many journals --...
Amazon Yanks Reviews Posted by Authors
Amazon has caused a firestorm in it's controversial decision to remove all book reviews that are written by authors. Beginning with a post on Salon.Com by author Steve Weddle, the online retailer...
Black Authors Network
The Black Author Network (BAN) is a weekly online radio show that features authors and literary leaders three times per week to give the readers a blast of knowledge, wisdom,...