NOVELTY REVIEW SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Ø INTRODUCTION
Reviewers willing to nominate their book submissions to
Novelty Library Reviews are welcome to do so absolutely free of any charges
whatsoever. Nominations must include well written samples following our
submission guidelines, and the Novelty Review Writing Format, as below. Willing
reviewers are requested to fill the Reviewer Form before they proceed. Click here to fill the Reviewer form. To get an ARS
Referral code from your Novelty Consultant, drop in a direct
message on your choice of social platform on any of our handles. A reviewer is
offered a Novelty ARS Code (Assisted Referral Sustainability Code) after 10
successful reviews by the aforementioned reviewer, provided the Novelty board
allows it. (Preferred contact route: Instagram) Please fill the form up
only if you are 18 years or older!
There is no limit to the time you, as a reviewer, take in
providing your reviews or the number of reviews you want to submit with Novelty
Reviews! Since there is no bound, you can quit whenever you want.
Please note that Novelty only publishes review of a specific book once on their channel. Any repetitive nomination shall be let known to respective reviewer and discarded. The published reviews are available over Novelty Reviews Blog and the Reviews Instagram handle primarily. Accepted book reviews are not supposed to be disclosed considering reviewer privacy. Best is to contact a Novelty Volunteer beforehand on any of the social handles to know if the submission shall become valid or not!
Ø GUIDELINES TO FOLLOW
A review submission to Novelty must be a concise
writeup written in the Novelty Writing Format, mailed to noveltylibrary@gmail.com. The writeup
shall be added as text in the mail body so that it’s easier for copying.
The writeup
must fit Instagram caption limit. The word count includes 250 words,
or 1800 characters, or 1500 characters (without spaces) approximately. Since
this is an approximate, and works for maximum of the times, reviewers are still
requested to check in on their Instagram app if their final review form suits
the limit. Otherwise, in case of discrepancies, a Novelty Admin will approach
reviewer via mail for edits, if required. For reviewers wanting to provide a
longer version of a review, reviewers can send in another longer sample in
addition to this aforementioned shorter one, so that Novelty can put the
shorter one on Instagram, and the longer one on the blog. One short writeup
is however, enough for a submission.
Please do not resort to using vulgar languages or demeaning any identity in your submissions. Such act would consequence in Novelty not considering your nominations and in case of extensive fouling, blacklisting your ID.
The mail subject shall read as follows,
“Review - //Book Name// - //Reviewer First Name//”
Please add a picture of the book following our Picture addition guidelines as been instructed below.
Ø PICTURE ADDITION
Do not forget to add a picture of the book that distinctly covers all edges and is in good quality of use. Images can be taken from Google, or phone or camera captures of good quality and edge visibility. Please do not provide multiple images. A background-removed picture will be preferred.
Our team will add your given picture in our poster and make it fashionable through Graphic Designing. Hereby, following is a poster example that Novelty uses, and how your review image shall look once you’ve submitted a nomination. The stars at the bottom indicates the reviewer rating suited on a five-metre scale, and the number indicates the Review number.
Ø WRITING FORMAT
Please do stick to the points in the format below, while you submit your nomination. Be sure to place the points as and where they exist in the format. Here is an abstraction of our writing format:
*Novelty Reviews format*
Title of Book*
Series name* (if any. Add Book number in the series. A late book in the series will only be published the review of, when all previous books in the series have been reviewed on our channel, unless the review book can be read and understood without reading the other books in the series, in which case, add ‘Stand-alone sufficed’.)
Author Name*
Genre of the Book* (one worded, or a couple, 3 words max.; eg., Self Help Non-fiction, Suspense Thriller, Action Tragedy, etc.)
Traits* (keywords describing the genre, maximum 5)
Publisher (optional)
Year of release (optional)
Language* (original writing language of book, not translations)
Translated in* (if the reviewed book is a translation, then add the language of translation).
**<Review> (Mandatory
to be in English) (length should suffice instagram caption limit, including
all other points in the format, saving space for extraneous keywords and tags)
Include critical takes in review, if any!
R/W Rating* (reviewer’s
rating out of 10, up to one decimal place.)
(Keep critical thoughts while rating.)
Amazon Rating (optional)
Goodreads rating* (out of 5) (include 'as on date of publishing of post' within brackets as given.)
Reviewed by*: include
your name followed by
A> instagram handle for instagram post
B> website or any other handle you want to give for website post (In case not provided, instagram is default).
_Date of review (optional) _
Note:
ü Fields include the heading
marked in a shade of cyan colour. The heading must be written in the
final print of the review followed by a ‘colon’ mark giving the answer.
ü Fields marked * are compulsory to fill out!
ü Fields marked * are compulsory to
fill out, when applicable!
ü Adjust to a line gap after
each paragraph as is above.
Ø REVIEW AVAILABILITY
Once a review is submitted, a Novelty administrator will
check and let know if the mail is received or not. Novelty team will check the
format and picture and let know if any edits are required. The final draft will
be added to the queue of reviews. A reviewer can except upto a month before the
review comes out.
Reviews shall be available on:
1.
Novelty Reviews Blog (noveltylibrary.blogspot.com)
2. Novelty Reviews Instagram Handle (www.instagram.com/novelty.lib)
Reviewers will be credited on the blog with suitable revert link as provided in the mail. Reviewers will be sent a collaboration request on Instagram and it is upto them if they want to accept or deny.
Here is how a review shall look like once it’s published.
You can take inception and inspiration from here.
·
Sample Review on Instagram: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
· Sample Review on Blog: A Study in Scarlet
**Note**: Please note that since we
assign review numbers accordingly for each of our posted reviews, any review posted
shall not be taken down in the future. Be sure to submit your reviews keeping
that in mind!
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