Chami and I have decided that from today onwards we will not be accepting e-book review copies. We already have an intensive list of books that we need to review for authors and we're finding it very difficult to keep on top of them at the moment. Chami is currently in her final year of school, and I'm about to start my second semester of University next month, so as you can imagine, we're already incredibly pressed for time.
We really love connecting with authors about their books and getting the chance to read things we wouldn't necessarily be able to get our hands on otherwise and being able to share them with others. We haven't fallen out of love with this at all.
So, for the next few months we will not be accepting e-books for review as we attempt to catch up with our outstanding requests. We're not sure how long it will take us to catch up and so we don't know when we'll re-open requests but we will post about it when we do.
To any of the authors we've already promised reviews to, I'm sorry we've taken so long to get to them but we'll try and get them done as soon as possible.
Thank you,
Ely and Chami.
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I totally get this! I've had to close down to review-requests as well. Also, I feel awkward being specifically requested to review books...because what if I hate them? And then have to send the review back straight to the author? Noooo. It's too hard.
ReplyDeleteI feel horrible if I don't get to the books or if it takes me ages to read them, especially having to send e-mails to the authors having to apologise!
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I've had to do this recently, as well. As lovely as it is to offer reviews to authors, they accumulate really quickly! And there are always books that we want to read for US.
ReplyDeleteIt's also a bit difficult if it takes a while to review the book (it took me almost a year for one EEEEK), or if it's a book you don't like *hides*
I'm glad you were able to make the decision that's best for you ;D
Exactly, Chiara! Plus we're in the same boat with our TBR shelves, aren't we? It's madness! Thank you for being lovely and supportive as always <3
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