I lost my spot in the 2025 St. Martin‘s Press Early Readers Program but I‘ve been a member of the Celadon Readers Program for years. They haven‘t made me reapply. They just ask me to update my information I gave them when I applied so they can keep their records updated. Celadon mentions you‘ll be considered for approval if you have a lot of followers. I don‘t have a lot of followers but they accepted me into their program.
On the bright side, I found these 2 PR companies to review books for and they‘ve both said that they don‘t care about how many followers you have. If you want an ARC from them, they‘ll send it to you. I don‘t know if I‘ll get every single ARC I sign up for but I‘ll be happy with whatever I get. I don‘t need to review books for anyone who only cares about how many followers I have. Anyone who looks at my Instagram knows I love talking about books.
I asked Google if St. Martin‘s Press cares about followers and this was the answer. I asked this because they kicked me out of their Early Readers Program after I was in it for years. Apparently, I need more than 1,000 followers on social media. I only have 346 followers on Instagram but that shouldn‘t matter because I love talking about books. I‘m not less than because I‘m a small book account. My book opinions and thoughts matter too.
I see on Threads that other people said that they were kicked out of the SMP Early Readers Program just like I was so it‘s not just me. Maybe SMP wants to work with accounts that have a lot of followers so they have only brand new reviewers. I think I only have 300 and something followers on Instagram. I did good reviewing books for them at first but then I fell behind on reviewing and I‘ve been trying to catch up since then.
I decided to sign up to be notified of the next application period for the St. Martin‘s Press Early Readers Program but I‘m starting to think that maybe I should just stick to reviewing books for Chasing Books PR and The Smuthood PR since they don‘t care about how many followers you have. As far as the ARCs I‘m behind on reading for SMP, I‘ll catch up on those. It‘ll just take awhile. I‘ll read them when I have time.
I reapplied for the 2025 St. Martin‘s Press Early Readers program and this is the email they sent about my status. They kicked me out of their program. I know I‘m behind on reviewing the ARCs they‘ve been sending me but I‘m still disappointed. In the meantime, I found 2 PR companies on Instagram to review books for: Chasing Books PR and The Smuthood PR and they don‘t care how many followers you have.
June‘s books, courtesy of StoryGraph and their new amazing wrap up template. Best of the month was Chain Gang All Stars with The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy a close second.
Today @MidnightBookGirl told me about this app that you can use to track your books and it makes this cool calendar. I set mine to just when finished, but they have other calendar options. App is called Bookmory. Imo it‘s not a substitute for Goodreads or StoryGraph, but it‘s pretty cool.
(I collect book apps like I collect books.)
Hey all! I have been working on a masters paper about young adult LGBTQIA books and how important they are for teens to be able to see themselves and/or people they care about in books. I have reviewed a couple on here, but not all of them. I have gotten great feedback on the others and would love to share more of these books with everyone!
Are there any above that you would like reviews about? I would gladly review them and promote them! 💙💙💙
July in Review! Pretty good reading month. Two DNF and an average star rating of 3.68. Best of the month was definitely The Change.
July in Review!
Pretty solid reading month for me, best was a toss up between Bad Blood and Nora Goes Off Script.
I'm so happy that May is over and we've moved on to June! Summer has officially started and I'm hoping to get a large amount of audiobooks in as I do things around the house and go on my big (and expensive lol) road trip!
I'm also going to a cabin in the mountains next weekend with some friends. So excited to take the time to relax and decompress.
March was a wild month for me and I didn't get a ton of reading in. What I did read I enjoyed though!
Not as many books this month, but that's ok. I survived! Best of the month by far was The Pick-Up.
Question: What‘s the consensus about reviewing a book that you bailed on? DO you review or not?
Thanks for the #Two4Tuesday tag, @Eggs !
1. I don‘t seek out reviews specifically for my own review-writing prep, but since I often read a few right when I start a book, I‘m aware of others‘ opinions when I pen my own response.
2. They don‘t impact my rating, but if I‘ve seen several people mention an issue I might address it in my own review.
March in Review! Pretty good month, lots of good books.
My trusted assistant helped me write reviews today.
#GhostCat
#NetGalley #ARC #MountARC
#SuperSeptember @Andrew65
#CatsOfLitsy
This is my #NetGalley situation this year.
I managed to read (or at least get to) basically all the new requests (l've been very careful to request only books l really thought l was going to read). The upper part presents all old ARCs.
I hope to read a few of them during the August #NetGalleyReviewathon
#NetGalleyReviewathon @sprainedbrain
I've been so bad at reading challenges in the last year... and in reading in general, l'd say. Thought l've been able to clear almost the entire log of my newly requested #NetGalley book.
But do we want you talk about my older requests?
So this is my goal for August: clear as many 'old' ARCs as possible.
My TBR (to be reviewed) for #Netgalley #Reviewathon 7/22-8/30. This is a small fraction of books I have ready to read and review. I hope to jump in whole heartedly in August as I am still celebrating #Julybrary right now.
Feeling personally attacked by Netgalley‘s new readathon! 😂 Anyone else SUPER behind in their #Netgalley reviews? 🙋🏼♀️🙋🏼♀️
I have SO MANY ARCs to catch up on that it's getting ridiculous! So in November I'm focusing on reading and reviewing Netgalley books. It might help me with my book- buying problem too 😅
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