Layers of Thought: Review Policy

Interested in having Layers of Thought do a review for a book or more?

Review requests are welcome and greatly appreciated. We also do book tours, author guest posts, interviews, and love giveaways. (We also occasionally review music, movies, and other products.)

To be considered please email Shellie at - layersofthought(at)gmail(dot)com with your request. Thank you!

We like to consider our blog a recommendation site and therefore only accept books that one of us is likely to enjoy. Because we post our positive thoughts we do not guarantee reviews for every book.

Each book, when accepted, will be included in our Incoming Books feature, and when reviewed will be given our constructive opinions within its post.

Important note on ebooks, self published and vanity presses:

Our apologies, at this time we are NOT accepting ebooks for review, due to many incompatibilities with my ereader, and are also NOT accepting self published and or vanity press books for review due to an overwhelming response. Please check back at a later date since this may change.

Types of books that we prefer:

Shellie: My tastes are eclectic. With a favorite genre of Speculative Fiction, I enjoy reading Horror, Science Fiction, Magical Realism, Historical Fantasy, select Fantasy - especially those including Myth, Legend, Fairy Tales and Folklore.

I enjoy Literary Fiction, love Translations, Historical Fiction, GLBT, Mysteries and Thrillers, and like some Nonfiction; where my tastes vary from Memoirs, to Comedy, Science and more.

I will also read select Young Adult or Children's books included within the genres listed here.

I do not read or enjoy Christian Literature, most genre of Romance, or books about politics which have a specific partisan association.

JD/John: He enjoys Speculative Fiction too, specifically science based or Hard Sci Fi. Also Historical Fiction and survival oriented Memoirs and Biographies are his preferences. His dislikes are like mine, tending toward more intellectual and Literary style books rather than action based plots. Being a music buff, anything related to this art form is greatly appreciated.

(For further personal and professional information our profiles are linked on each of our names in the above sections or link to the about Layers of Thought page.)

Blog statistics as of Jan 25, 2012:

Many of these are taken from Google Analytics: We currently have 825 Google followers, 575 Goodreads friends, 315 friends on Face Book - where the blog feed is also updated, as well as 800 aggregate feed readers. In addition 930 twitter followers.

We have approximately 1000 new visitors per month and 200 page views per day from 40 differing countries. Commenting varies from post to post and can range from zero to 20. If you have any other specific data which you are interested in please let me know.

How we rate books:

Although we would prefer to not rate books - for the sake of clarity we use the "Five Star System".

Five Star System ~ Key

Five Stars: This book was transformational and a rare book indeed!

Four Stars: Loved it!
Three Stars: Liked it.
Two Stars: It was okay.
One Star: Did not like it and did not finish it.