I’m honest in my reviews, good, bad, or meh. I use excerpts from the text to give examples, backing up how I formed my opinion.

I’m considering a review policy, if only to cut down the number of blind e-mails I get offering review copies of books that don’t at all fit my reading profile.

People are being asked to put their hard earned money down on the counter to buy these books, and I don’t want someone doing it for a book I thought was awful but was afraid to say so. That doesn’t mean being rude…but really, once the book is published it is fair game for anyone’s opinion…even bloggers. I don’t contact an author or publicist before I post a bad review…no more than I do before I post a great one.

With Google Alert, I assume they know both soon enough.

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again–you have to be really careful about what you say on your blog. I’ve had well-known authors e-mail me and thank me for my positive reviews, and this is for novels that were published quite awhile ago! I’ve also had a kind of running e-mail battle with a fanatical Christian individual who thinks I’m evil incarnate because I appreciate “American Psycho.” The internet really is transparent! “Nuff said.