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Has Your Book Been Overlooked? Do You Need Exposure?
Do You Want to Be Discovered?
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Kirkus is now offering a new review service, giving all writers the opportunity to get attention for their books and giving rights and acquisitions agents the chance to watch out for books that might interest them. Any book is fair game, whether conventionally published, self-published, e-published, published via Print-On-Demand or previously unpublished.
NOTE: Kirkus Reviews and Kirkus Discoveries are separate book-review services.
Kirkus Discoveries, unlike Kirkus Reviews, is a paid-review service that allows authors and publishers of overlooked titles to receive authoritative, careful assessment of their books.
NOTE: Kirkus Reviews, an independent book-review journal, does not charge for reviews.
Here's how the Kirkus Discoveries program works:
•A review is commissioned from the Discoveries team, who assigns the book to one person within the Kirkus-brand pool of professional reviewers, who in turn provides an honest, caveat-emptor evaluation, under the same impartial rubric as Kirkus Reviews. Our long-standing editorial policy of anonymous reviews also applies to the Discoveries program.
**VERY IMPORTANT: All Kirkus Discoveries reviews are final and non-refundable. We DO NOT send books out for a second review.
•The review, written in the same format and style as a traditional Kirkus review, is sent by email to the author or publisher as a PDF document. (Allow 7-9 weeks for turnaround, depending on service). The author or publisher is free to excerpt the review or reprint it in whole as part of any promotional or marketing material, whether print or online.
NOTE: All reviews must be attributed exactly as follows: Kirkus Discoveries. Once again, Kirkus Reviews and Kirkus Discoveries are separate book-review services. Attributing a Kirkus Discoveries review to Kirkus Reviews is incorrect and misleading. False attribution will result in corrective measures.
• At the author or publisher's request, the review is then posted on the Discoveries website, which has a wide audience of librarians, agents, rights representatives, booksellers and film and television producers.
• Reviews are eligible for inclusion in the monthly Kirkus Discoveries eNewsletter, which highlights the best submissions to the program, at no extra cost. That HTML newsletter goes to a targeted base of subscribers, most of whom are looking for the rights--including both print and film--to books and unpublished manuscripts.
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Please send all questions and comments to:
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Burke, Dennis CLERICAL AFFAIRS
May 15, 2008 - A suspicious death exposes the seamy underbelly of the post-Vatican II Catholic Church. |
Fisher, Byron THE SUPPLY AND DEMAND PARADOX
May 15, 2008 - Simple, quirky attempt to deconstruct air pollution and the Mafia in order to prove a new theory on economics. |
Hargodd, Warren THE NURSERY
May 15, 2008 - Several story lines intermingle to reveal the Lovecraftian horrors at the heart of this novel. |
Kennedy, Peggy CHRIST'S WALK WITH ME
May 15, 2008 - Christian poetry that avoids blunders, but never distinguishes itself. |
Merry, Michael J. THE RELUCTANT COLONEL
May 15, 2008 - Part treasure hunt, part political thriller, part island comedy. |
Peterson, Leif NORMAL LIKE US
May 15, 2008 - A varied, contemporary, character-driven collection of 14 stories infused with personality and life's interminable bounty. |
Trybulski, Stan THE IDES OF JUNE
May 15, 2008 - An attorney for New York City's Department of Education, suffused with midlife melancholy, finds new energy and resolve when he helps an acquaintance investigate the long-forgotten murder of her twin sister--part of the Ides of June serial killings. |
Welling, Eleanor THE DAHLIA PRIMER
May 15, 2008 - A beginner's how-to book on growing dahlias that's slim enough to slip into a jacket pocket for quick reference while kneeling in the dirt. |
Abernathy, J. Ray DIRTY BILLY
May 13, 2008 - Two misfit scamps run rings around their foes in this coming-of-age novel, set in the post-war South. |
Bartlett, Richard A. FIRST CHRISTMAS AT MUDDY CREEK
May 13, 2008 - A motley crew rises to the challenge of a Jesuit priest's desire for a place to hold midnight mass on Christmas Eve, with long-reaching effects on all involved. |
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May 01, 2008 - Books to Remember has been an annual tradition at The New York Public Library for more than 50 years. Each year, a small group of librarians comb through hundreds of book reviews and consider hundreds of new titles in the categories of fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Selection criteria include literary excellence, uniqueness of concept and command of subject matter. The goal: Choose 25 adult titles that offer informative or transformative reading experiences. In the spring, the Books to Remember committee formally presents its top 25 at an event held at the library.
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