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Candle-Ends: Reviews
TC Editors


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Our reviews editor is taking a well-deserved vacation this issue. While she’s on break, here’s a reminder of our book review guidelines.

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Candle-Ends focuses on reviews of books by authors with a connection to Toasted Cheese. Examples include: an author published in TC, an author who has written for Absolute Blank or been the subject of an Absolute Blank article, and/or an author who has been an active forum member or host.

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We welcome submissions of reviews of published work by authors with an existing connection to Toasted Cheese. There is no restriction on the number of reviews you may submit.

If you are interested in writing a review but are not set on a particular book, contact our reviews editor and she can match you with a request.

To request a review, contact our reviews editor with the pertinent details about your book, your connection to Toasted Cheese, and your willingness to provide the reviewer with a review copy (print or electronic).

If you request a review, please consider helping out our reviews editor by volunteering to write one as well.

If you have a book you would like reviewed and you do not have an existing connection to TC, you can establish one by writing a review in exchange.

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The complete book review guidelines can be found here.

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Request or submit a review: reviews[at]toasted-cheese.com

Introducing Candle-Ends

Candle-Ends: Reviews
TC Editors


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As we begin our second decade, we are retiring Best of the Boards, and introducing a review section, Candle-Ends. In keeping with the community-oriented spirit of BotB, Candle-Ends will focus on reviews of work by writers with a connection to Toasted Cheese. In particular, we’re looking for reviews of work by writers who:

Reviews can be of individual poems, stories, and other short works as well as books and anthologies. Work does not need to be current to be reviewed.

Suggestions for and submissions of reviews can be made either to reviews[at]toasted-cheese.com or at our new reviews forum. If you’d like to suggest your work (or someone else’s) be reviewed put “Review Suggestion” in your subject line. If you’d like to submit a review, put “Review Submission” in your subject line. If you are submitting by email, paste your submission in the body of the email message.

Reviews should be 100–500 words in length, and include the name of the author and the title of the work. Books and anthologies should include publisher and publication date. Individual work should include date and place of publication, as well as the URL for work available online. You may submit more than one review.

Submission periods for reviews will mirror the regular submission periods. Notification of whether your review has been accepted for publication will be sent in early February, May, August and November. (No preliminary notifications will be sent.) Reviews are subject to the same terms of publication as regular submissions.

We hope you’ll enjoy this new section, and if you’re a member of the Toasted Cheese community, please do not hesitate to suggest your own work for review!

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