Policies on Comment Moderation, Guest Posts, Interviews, and Blog Tours

These are the policies I have established for my blog. Right now this page consists of policies for comment moderation, guest posts, interviews, and blog tours. My review policy can be found here. As issues come up, I may decide to add more, at any time, and without notice. These are my standard responses to requests concerning these issues. I reserve the right to change these policies or waive these policies at any time and for any reason, including my own whimsy. This is not an invitation to ask me to waive these policies because your author interview is just that good. Requests like that are likely to get your e-mail deleted and your e-mail address blocked.

Comment Moderation: This policy is very simple. I reserve the right to moderate or delete any comments on this blog in any way I want, for any reason I want, without notice, and without any appeal.

Guest Posts: No. The answer will always be no. This blog is my voice, and mine alone. I write all of the books. I decide how things are formatted. I decide what goes on the blog and what does not. This is almost certainly never going to change.

Interview Posts: I don't do blog interviews. I have no interest in e-mailing you a collection of questions and posting your collection of canned responses. If I do an interview post, it will be because I met the author, sat down with them, and talked to them in person. Part of the reason for this blog is to document my experiences as a lover of science fiction and fantasy, and exchanging a few e-mails ranks well down on the list of things worth documenting. If I meet a living, breathing author, and can record a sit down interview with them, then I'll probably put a post up detailing that. Anything short of that, no.

Blog Tours: I have nothing against blog tours per se, but I tend to shy away from agreeing to participate in them because the scheduling for this blog can be a tad erratic. I don't intend to go for a day or two without posting, and I won't intend to forget to post a review on the day that you carved out for me to post about your promoted book, but my schedule is not entirely my own, and I generally can make no promises about when something will be read, and no promises about when something will be reviewed. Some weeks I can't even post a Musical Monday or Follow Friday post on time (or at all), so other content goes up when I have the time and ability to do so, and not according to any particular schedule. So if you do want me to participate in your blog tour, be warned that I might miss your date and I'm not really going to be sorry if I do.

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Review Policy

I didn't think I would need to have something like this, but since my e-mail in-box is getting full with requests for reviews, I guess I should at least let you people know what your chances are of getting me to review your book.The first thing I need to point out is that I am not in any particular need of more reading material. I have several thousand unread books sitting on my bookshelves already. I don't normally solicit advance review copies, and for the most part I have no idea what books are due to be released in the near future. That situation may change in the (extremely) unlikely event that I ever actually conquer Mount To-Be-Read, but that day has not yet come to pass.

I am primarily interested in science fiction and fantasy. These genres are the meat of my reading and the primary focus of this blog. I also read a fair amount of nonfiction - mostly in the areas of science, history, and economics. A certain amount of historical fiction also piques my interest. If your book falls into one of those categories, I may be willing to push it near the top of my reading list and review it for you. If I agree to read and review your book, I will do so, although due to the many demands on my time I cannot promise that this will be done within any specific time frame. Unless I have agreed to read and review a book, I feel no obligation to do so, so sending me unsolicited books to review is at your own risk - I may read it and review it, or it may sit on my shelves gathering dust for the next decade. Finally, I generally don't review books in electronic formats. I don't have any particular animus against e-books, but I do most of my reading while commuting and I don't own (and currently have no plans to acquire) an e-reader. This means that if you send me a book in an electronic format, I'm going to have to read it at my computer and as a result it may be quite a while before I get to it.

As a final note: I don't normally read Christian fiction. If you have a Christian fantasy or Christian science fiction book that you really want to send me to read and review, realize that the fact that your book contains a Christian theme isn't going to immunize it against criticism that the book has a flimsy plot, weak characters, offensive messages, or silly contrivances. I suggest reading some of my previous reviews of Christian speculative fiction here, here, and here, and consider whether you really want me to read and review your book.

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