Brick Cave Media understands, appreciates and encourages the independent book review community and is excited to make copies of books available to reviewers .
Review Statement
Brick Cave makes books available for review without regard for or implicit request for a positive review. In reviewing requests for review copies, the experience of the reviewer is taken into consideration without seeking a guarentee of a positive review. Reviewers are free to review Brick Cave releases openly and honestly. We feel positive reviews provided in this light are more genuine to the quality of the book and ultimatley serve the reader better.
Requesting Books to Review
At any time, a reviewer may request a copy of any Brick Cave Book to review using the following guidelines.
Pre-Release Reviews
Pre-release reviews are limited to reviewers that have previously reviewed Brick Cave Books. Typically, we also seek reviewerd that have previously reviewed the author in question. Brick Cave maintains an email list solely for our pool of advance reviewers based on past reviews of Brick Cave Books. This special email list is called the ARC Legion.
Front or Back List Titles
Using the email "reviews" at brickcavemedia dot com (omit quotations), reviewers may submit a request that includes the following information:
- Brick Cave title requested
- Fornat requested (see below)
- URL of the site/location that the review will be posted to
- Name of Reviewer
- If requesting physical copies, address of the reviewer
Available Formats
Review copies of Brick Cave Books may be requested in any of the following formats (based on the availability of the format for the book in question):
- Paperback
- Amazon Kindle
- Amazon Audio Book
Reviewers eaperienced with Brick Cave Books may request additional formats, including:
- Hardcover
- eBooks from additonal retailers (Apple Books, Barnes and Noble Nook, Google Play Books)
Notifying Brick Cave of your review
While Brick Cave does not maintain a deadline to review Brick Cave Books, we do track where our review copies go and use that data to determine approval of future books to send for review. Reviewers that have completed and posted their reviews are welcome to notify us of their review via the email address "reviews" at brickcavemedia dot com (omit quotations).
Other Considerations
- Physical Review copies of Brick Cave Books are not author signed.
- Formats are subject to availability. Not all books are released in every format.
- Review copies of Brick Cave Books may utilize alternative cover art or employ different layout attributes.
- Brick Cave Books (digital or physical) provided for review may not be sold by the reviewer.
- Physical Brick Cave Books provided to for review may be donated by the reviewer to a qualified IRS 501(c)(3) organization, preferably a literary entity.
- Brick Cave Media reserves the right to share (or not to share) reviews at its descretion.
- Brick Cave Media may utilize qotes (attributed appropriatley) in online or offline media in reference to the book being reviewed.
Other Brick Cave Review Sources
NetGalley
On occasion, Brick Cave Books are made available for review via NetGalley. When a book is made available via NetGalley, the Pre-Release review email list is notified. Brick Cave does not utilize any other paid services to make books available for review.
Kirkus
Brick Cave Books are submitted to Kirkus for review.
Amazon Product Reviews
Brick Cave monitors statistics regarding reviews lest on Brick Cave Books listed at Amazon.com and on Goodreads.
Additional Questions
Additional questions regarding Brick Cave's review policies and procedures may be submitted via the email address "reviews" at brickcavemedia dot com (omit quotations).
