Review Policy

Updated 6/25/08
In response to inquiries, here is our policy for summaries or reviews:

Online ‘Zines and Journals–We will post summaries or reviews of online ‘zines and journals relevant to Goddess, women and religion, and spiritual feminism only if there is no impediment to reading them, such as registration, and they are free (except in cases where they pay contributors more than the cost of a subscription). Publishing on the Internet reduces greatly the cost of producing a journal (no printing or mailing costs). In addition, payment in copies isn’t possible. Therefore, we feel if an online journal is charging readers, it should be paying contributors. We understand that other people, such as editors, who put together these journals, deserve compensation too, but we suggest that getting that money from sponsors or advertisers, and/or asking for "free will" donations, may be more effective than charging readers. Charging readers decreases readership and thus decreases the only advantage to unpaid contributors of publishing in these ‘zines: having their materials read and seen by a large number of people. In cases where most of the content is free to readers but there is charge for some of the content, we will summarize/review only the free content.

Print Books–We will consider for review print books supplied to us, however we cannot promise to review them. If you have a print book that is Goddess-oriented, and/or is relevant to women and religion or spiritual feminism that you want us to consider reviewing, please either select a contact method from those listed here or leave a comment at the end of this post (we review all comments before posting them, so if you don’t want us to post the comment, say so in the comment) and we will contact you with further instructions.
UPDATE 10/08: We accept the following formats for print books: finished copies, bound galleys, bannered copies. We do not accept pdfs of print books. If a book is published as a hard copy, we must have the hard copy for review. We prefer to receive books within 4 months of publication, although up to a year after publication is acceptable. (We have, in the past, made exceptions for books published before we began blogging.) Occasionally we will include information/opinion about a book published more than a year ago in a post which discusses the subject of the book but which is not specifically a review of that book.

At present we are not reviewing e-books or print journals.

UPDATE 11/08:
CDs and DVDs–We are now also accepting CDs and DVDs for review that are finished and ready for marketing. Please query in the same way as described for print books.