New Look. New System. Same Standards.
Our commitment to providing quality Editorial Reviews for authors has not changed. And never will.
What’s New.
Instead of a monthly magazine, new content will be published weekly. Right Here.
Reviews will be separated into four categories. Reviews will be published weekly, by category. One category per week.
Articles on Industry, helps, How To, informational, and whatever else we deem relevant, timely, or humorous will be published every other week.
Interviews will be published every other week. (Opposite weeks from the Articles).
Serial Stories (we’d like to have more than one!) will be published on the same weeks as the Articles. (Opposite weeks from the Interviews.)
Social Media!! We are going to be much more active across all social media platforms. Posting weekly notifications when we publish, media blasts of books, tidbits, videos/reels, all the things! We are actually ridiculously excited about this part. Today’s technology has made this so much easier to run! (And no, we don’t mean AI.)
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We are looking for Staff.
If any of the following positions interest you, please click and fill out the Form in it’s entirety. (Yeah, Google, but know what? Sometimes free can’t be beat.)
Reviewer Serial Story Author Editor Review Coordinator
Social Media Master (Adobe Express required)
Article Writer (can be monthly, can be a series, can be one off)
Website Assistant (Squarespace/similar website software is required)
On the review page, there will be a list of tags such as: Western, Victorian, Spicy, Earth-based, Vampire, etc. (This secondary categorization is set by the author.)
There will also be categories, which are seen on each review post. The categories are the Star Rating and Steam Rating. The explanation of both will also be at the top of each review page.
Why is this a big deal?
You Can Search The Page using these tags and categories to find the perfect book to a to your TBR pile.
What Remains The Same.
The meaning and value behind the Star and Steam Ratings has not changed. A 3 Star book is still considered a good read. The kind you smile when you close. Our ratings still go from CNF (Could Not Finish) to 5, on a half point scale.
A 1 Steam book has nothing beyond maybe holding hands and longing looks, while the ever popular 5 Steam should make your heart race enough to not want to be in public when reading it.
As before, our Interviewees are chosen for a variety of reasons, but we begin with those who have written multiple books with many ratings, solidly positive ratings on Goodreads, Amazon, Kobo, iBooks, etc., while also having fans, followers, and an online presence. Are we doing Rising Star Interviews? Possibly, still working that out.
Our Serial Stories and Articles—Industry based, reader/author well-being, humor laced, How To’s—are all unpaid, but edited to make sure they meet the standards we have always set for our publication.
As always, we guarantee an Editorial Review. We do not guarantee a Good review. Is it possible to get a .5 Star review? Yes.
Any book with a 2 Star rating or lower is read by another reviewer. A below 2 Star through CNF on the published review itself means two or more reviewers have read the book and agree on the rating. CNF means Could Not Finish. In the 13 year history of InD’tale, we can count the total numbers of CNF through 2 Star reviews on two hands. And maybe half a foot. It is incredibly rare.
The difference between an Editorial Review and personal one:
Editorial Reviews are as unbiased as humanly possible, with no “I” or “We” attached to it. It is a fair bird’s eye view of the overall story, with notes on strong points and weak points. It is not supposition and does not allow for reviewers personal opinions to be written into the review.
Personal reviews are just that, an individual, with inherent beliefs, tastes, likes/dislikes, and biases who write reviews with all of that inside it. Their own perspectives shape whether or not they liked the story, not necessarily how well the story was written.
Example of a New month - NOT the actual schedule:
Week One - Article(s), Story, Paranormal/Horror Reviews
Week Two - Interview, Contemporary Reviews
Week Three - Article(s), Story, Sci-Fi/Fantasy Reviews
Week Four - Interview, Historical Reviews