I have thought about reviewing specific books on these pages. Quite frankly, it is to encourage a give-and -take between readers or writers and this writer, who has expertise in some areas of the human soul.
If you wish to have a book reviewed by me, I will give it the attention it needs. I do not want to be rushed. You take a risk as I have experienced risk with bloggers. I will not be mean-sprited in the reviews although I do not suffer fools. I will not pull my punches. Some book review bloggers give me the option of not reviewing the book if they do not like it. Crapola!
To be a writer requires guts. So, I have my interests — I would like to review books about the Holocaust, historical fiction as well as non-fiction; collections of short stories interest me as well as collections of sci-fi stories such as Harlan Ellison produces. I favor fiction that moves me emotionally and then cerebrally, in that order. I like my writers brave.
I am attentive to detail so that I will get back to you quickly. If you peruse the queries I wrote for The i Tetralogy and Down to a Sunless Sea in these pages, forward a similar query to me. (In this way I get a sense of you). I am new at all this, but I am not new at living. For example, how would I put your review up on Amazon? I haven’t the slightest. So if you would enlighten me I would comply. In this exchange we share a writerly collegiality. No, you need not read my books unless you are inclined to. No, you needn’t pull your punches with me, for I am human as much as you are. It is all in how you express yourself — well, that is your job as a writer, isn’t it?
Finally, I am open to suggested parameters for running this litblog.
I look forward to hearing from you.
If you would go to blogcritics.org/ and read the interview with Mayra Calvani and then to pifmagazine.com for another interview with Derek Alger, editor, you will get a better sense of who I am. Work it out from there, friend.
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