Review And Posting Policy And Contact

Please read carefully before sending an inquiry. I don’t review self published work unless you have a background in traditional publishing(see below).

If you clearly haven’t read this before scrolling to the email address, I won’t reply. 

This site is for children's and YA books, genre fiction and non fiction on genre themes, eg true crime and films. Just assume I don't do mainstream adult books so I don't have to disappoint you. I don’t do self help books. Any inquiries offering those will not be answered.

I never reply to press releases, except from my regular publishers. 

As of now, after a lot of inquiries from people who didn’t bother to check what this blog is about, I will not be replying to any inquiry that clearly hasn’t checked out my blog to see if their book is a good fit. 


Small press, especially Australian, is fine, but I don’t review self published work, unless you have a track record in regular publishing. I’m sure there is a lot of wonderful self published stuff out there, I just don’t have time to wade through the poor writing to get to the treasure. And yes, I know that there is a lot of rubbish that publishers have paid for, but at least there is a filter - and those books will receive a poor review from me. 

I don’t  read or review “Christian” fiction. Or any other religion, for that matter. I might consider a children’s book with a religious holiday in the theme or children who are of a particular religion and dealing with it, but that’s it. 

One thing I will never, ever do on this web site is advertise, and that includes sponsored posts of the kind that include links to client web sites. Any such inquiry will be deleted.

If you need to contact me about books or ask questions or just generally talk to me, here's my email address: sbursztynski@gmail.com. If it's about a post you have read, I'd really rather that you put up a comment. :-)