Our Policy
TBMS is currently accepting limited and solicited advanced reading copies (ARCs), review copies of books, and newer titles issued no later than 3 months after the publication date. There are occasional exceptions to this policy, depending on our workload.
We prefer to add titles to book lists and will less often review one book in a post. Please reach out to us at [email protected], and we will return your email as soon as we are able.
Book Formats We Accept
At this moment, we will only be accepting Kindle (MOBI), PDF and ePUB formats of books (e-books). We will update this page if this policy changes.
Types of Books We Review
TBMS reviews diverse books. This means the books are by diverse authors and/or about diverse characters. We purposefully leave the meaning of diversity to be vague. Collectively, the following genres are our favorites:
- Historical fiction
- History
- Classics
- Science fiction
- Young adult
- Mystery/thriller
- True crime
- Graphic novels
However we are not limited to reviewing these genres, nor will we review any book that falls within these genres. Please feel free to check with us by email if you are wondering what kinds of books we are currently looking for.
Limitations
Unfortunately, we are unable to accept all review requests. We will consider all books for review, but if we do not get back to you, please assume we were unable to get to your book. If we do agree to review your book, it may take us some time to post our review or we may choose to not review in the end.
Disclaimer
By contacting us with a request to review, you acknowledge and respect that our posts or lists featuring said book will be our honest opinions.
All assessments are our own and are not meant to be biased or cause harm in any way.
Upon receiving and reading a title, if a book is poorly edited, in bad taste, or simply is not fun to read for us, we reserve the right to decline a review. We may or may not inform you, briefly, why we declined the review.
Ready to work together?
Great! Thanks for reading all of that! Feel free to email us at [email protected] with the following information to request to review/add to list:
- Title and author
- Publish date
- Summary/synopsis
- How your book fits our diverse books theme
- Official book cover image with permission to paste on our website
- Any other information you’d like for us to have
Book Review Policy Updated January 2021