Frequently Asked Questions

Your faithful booksluts have been receiving some questions somewhat frequently, so I thought perhaps it was time to start a page for frequently-asked questions.

Before reading through the FAQ, the main thing to realize is that at the core of most of the answers to these questions is the fact that we don’t intend to pimp out our blog.  Our main goal is to create quality content by blogging about things we genuinely want to blog about.  Everything else has to take a backseat to that.  Being writers and readers both, it would be a bit of an effrontery to our own sensibilities if we put out less than our genuine best.

Do you accept guest reviews/review contributions?

At this time, we’re not looking for contributions because we’re still working on building our own content.  In the future, I’m certain that we will be looking for guest reviews and possibly regular contributors.  I will keep everyone posted on when this changes.

In the future, when you are looking for new booksluts and guest booksluts, how would I go about becoming one of said booksluts?

If and when we’re looking for new contributors, we’ll probably be looking right here on this blog for people who visit often, or at blogs that we frequent.  If you really dig IB and you might someday want to contribute, the best thing to do would be to participate here and interact with us on a regular basis (by commenting or on Twitter would be your best bet).  If you don’t have a blog we can look at, you may want to write up some sample book reviews and posts and have them waiting in the wings, so we can see if your style jibes with ours (but don’t force it–just be your natural self when writing, or it will sound . . . well, forced).  If we don’t choose you, it will probably just be because our styles don’t mesh well, so please, do not take it personally.  I wouldn’t eat beef on chocolate ice cream, but that doesn’t mean they’re not damn good if you eat them separately.

Do you accept books for review?

Yes, we now accept books to review. Please contact us at insatiablebooksluts@gmail.com if you are interested in sending us a book to review; we would appreciate receiving a summary of the work, and if you have them, a sample chapter or two. Someone from IB will look over your pitch and let you know if we will accept your book as soon as we can. Amy and Rob are only set up to receive print copies of books at this time; Susie can accept ebooks or print copies.

We mostly enjoy reading literary fiction. This is not to say that we don’t dip into genre fiction, especially genre fiction that is exploring new boundaries and creating new genres in its wake; however, if you write books that are firmly ensconced within an established genre, please don’t be upset if we do not accept your work at this time. We are working to narrow our focus to indie-published literary fiction, so believe me when I say that it is not a judgment on your style or your work. We do still love to read works that push genre boundaries, though (like Perdido Street Station, Geek Love, Night Circus, etc), so don’t be afraid to send your pitch if you have something really special!

Please also keep in mind that if you have a short deadline, such as a book publication date, we can’t guarantee we’ll meet the deadline without a decent margin–two to four weeks of having the book in-hand, possibly more, depending on the book itself and other deadlines we have to meet ahead of yours. Please try to contact us as early as possible when deadlines are involved.

Finally, we may choose not to review a book if we truly did not like it. We may also choose to write a somewhat scathing review of a book that we really did not like. Please know that if you send us a work for review, we are not bound to write a favorable review, nor are we guaranteeing that we will not review it if we don’t like it. Our main concern is giving our readers genuine content. Book swag must take a backseat–after all, they still have more free books at the library than you can shake a stick at.

If you don’t like my book/product and don’t review it, will you send it back?

Nope.  If you send us something to review, it’s ours.

Will you pimp out my (book/website/project) on your site?

I’d rather not be approached about this unless it’s something extraordinary, like a charity thing.  I only intend to share things with my readers that I genuinely enjoy or think is worthwhile.  I never want people to come here and feel like they are reading an advertisement, or wonder if we’re being compensated to promote something.

That having been said . . .

Are you planning to advertise on this blog?

We may, in the future, accept sponsors.  If we do, they’ll never be the main focus of the blog and the sponsor ads will never be invasive (i.e., I will not put product-placement in our blog posts, write blogs advertising for our sponsors, put annoying blinking banners all over the place, ads that play sounds when you load the page, ads that take over the page because they pop up or because the code is broken, et cetera). If you want to sponsor Insatiable Booksluts in the future, you will have to be satisfied with a small sidebar ad or a separate sponsor page and we have to like what you’re advertising.  We’re not all about annoying our readers with bullshit advertising, and we refuse to cheapen our content by putting fakey product endorsements in.

We may be sluts, but we gots standards.

Will you host a giveaway with my product?

Maybe.  We do plan on doing giveaways, although, frankly, we don’t want to be come a “giveaway” blog–I’d sooner use my own money to get something my readers will value than to give away free stuff just to attract a ton of people who are just looking for free stuff.  If you want us to host a giveaway for your product, both booksluts will need to sample the product first to make sure we like it.  We live in separate states, so you’ll want to have three of those items ready if it’s a tangible item–one for the giveaway and two for us.  If it’s a book, we’ll want to read it.

Will you trade links with me/add me to your blogroll?

Maybe? If you have to ask, probably not. If we come to know your work during the course of interacting with you, you won’t need to ask, we’ll just do it.

Did you copy Bookslut when you were making up your name?

I had no idea Bookslut was even a thing until it was too late to redesign the site and move it.  For now, we’re gonna stick to our name unless there is some legal issue.  (And yeah, I know (now), they’ve been around for like eight years. I’d still never heard of it, nor had my voraciously-reading fellow bookslut. Sorry, Bookslut. It was truly unintentional.)

New FAQs as things come up.  If you have any additional questions, you may leave them in the comments!