CONTEST: Reviewers Wanted

Life has caught up with many of the reviewers here at Speculative Book Review. We all work full-time, go to school, have lives, and many of us just started a family. With that in mind, we are looking for a couple of people to join SBR and help us review.

Our requirements:
1. Read and review at least two books per month. If you want to review more books than that, that is even better. We don't care what you read, just as long as you tell us in advance so we don't double up on reviews.
2. Allow us to review and if necessary edit your review before it is published. (This will change once you are accepted into the SBR family)
3. Provide your own books for review, if you receive ARCs even better but for the most part all of our reviewed novels are bought and paid for with our own hard earned money.
4. Your reviews must follow our review format. We also tend to keep the reviews family oriented so try to avoid any of those pesky curse words.
5. You can be located anywhere in the world. We are a very diverse group to begin with.

This is a serious offer for those who want to make a serious effort. We take pride in our work, and we are also control freaks. We want your work to be high-quality, and we want it to be reliable. If you don't think you can be reliable, don't bother entering our "contest."

This is a competition. you will pick a book (science fiction, fantasy, or horror), and you will read and review it.

The Contest:

1) You pick a book.
2) You read it and review it.
3) You email us the review along with your personal details.
4) We read your review. We will judge it on originality, quality of writing (it doesn't have to be perfect, we WILL edit you reviews after all), clarity of writing, and whether or not your review was in line with what we requested.
5) The one, or two reviewers we felt were best, we will choose to be permanent reviewers on SBR.

Again, SBR is a big deal to us. We are beginning to show up on the covers of books and getting books from major publishing houses. We want to maintain the confidence that publishers, agents, editors, publicists, and readers have in us. We are special, and we want to keep it that way.

Contest will run until April 29th GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) as this is the time our website is set to. Good luck to everyone we look forward to your submissions.

FAQs
Q-- Can I review more than one book for the contest?
A-- Sure, if they are solid reviews, it will give us confidence in you. However, if one sucks, it may hinder you.

Q-- How long should the reviews be?
A-- Look at our reviews (there are dozens of them). While the lengths may vary in some cases, they are almost all around the same length.

Q-- Is it OK to put spoilers in the review?
A-- No. Remain spoiler free, although if it is in a series we understand some things may slip.

Q-- Where will I be on the SBR totem-pole?
A-- We try to maintain a democracy at SBR, you will have a say in all decisions with the website, but since we started the website and know which direction we want to go we hope you will understand when we strongly share our opinion on the website and its future. We always put things to a vote at SBR with majority ruling.

Please email us with any other question at Speculative Book Review.