Send me your ebooks. Your short stories, your scrawls.
I'll tell you want if I like 'em,
If they're good at all.
I write myself, but have gotten to think,
There's more to the business
Than pages and ink.
I imagine in a week I'll look back on this poem (it's bad, I know) with embarrassment. But anyone who's written and shared knows that feeling.
I've created this blog with the hope that it might become a small hub for indie enthusiasts. In newspapers and magazines there are whole sections dedicated to the review of print authors' works. You'd think the internet could do better, but hereto, it has not. I don't presume my blog alone will make any great changes toward this status quo. I make it instead on the belief that the weight of many enthusiasts like myself might grant greater credence to non-print authors.
And so I'll repeat myself: send me your work and I'll review it here. I can't guarantee I'll like it, that I'll tell everyone it's good, or even that I'll finish more than a page, but I can promise you four things:
1: An honest opinion.
2: Constructive criticism.
3: That I won't steal your work
4: And that I'll make my best attempt to be funny.
My intent isn't to weight or discuss the minutiae and themes underlying your story. It's to stand on a digital soapbox and scream why or not we should read your work.
Please direct submissions to Andy.Shortreport@gmail.com
I haven't any guidelines yet. Actually, I take that back. No romance or erotica. If any other genres become an issue, I'll let you know.
I'll tell you want if I like 'em,
If they're good at all.
I write myself, but have gotten to think,
There's more to the business
Than pages and ink.
I imagine in a week I'll look back on this poem (it's bad, I know) with embarrassment. But anyone who's written and shared knows that feeling.
I've created this blog with the hope that it might become a small hub for indie enthusiasts. In newspapers and magazines there are whole sections dedicated to the review of print authors' works. You'd think the internet could do better, but hereto, it has not. I don't presume my blog alone will make any great changes toward this status quo. I make it instead on the belief that the weight of many enthusiasts like myself might grant greater credence to non-print authors.
And so I'll repeat myself: send me your work and I'll review it here. I can't guarantee I'll like it, that I'll tell everyone it's good, or even that I'll finish more than a page, but I can promise you four things:
1: An honest opinion.
2: Constructive criticism.
3: That I won't steal your work
4: And that I'll make my best attempt to be funny.
My intent isn't to weight or discuss the minutiae and themes underlying your story. It's to stand on a digital soapbox and scream why or not we should read your work.
Please direct submissions to Andy.Shortreport@gmail.com
I haven't any guidelines yet. Actually, I take that back. No romance or erotica. If any other genres become an issue, I'll let you know.
