Guidelines and Disclaimer for What the 4h reviews

To My Readers:

If you want to get in touch with me, please, feel free to leave a comment. You can also email me at any time. I love to hear from you!

I am just a reviewer. I am not an author. If you are trying to contact the author to any book I review, I am not it.

To Authors and Publishers and Product Companies:

I am more than happy to accept book and product review copies and catalogs from authors and publishers or product companies. I am also happy to participate in blog tours, author interviews, and guest posts and host giveaways. Due to the number of requests I receive, I am selective about the titles and products I accept.

This blog, A Bookish Mom,and it’s accompanying website is a voluntary, part time effort written by a lover of books and products. I’m an avid reader with 5 children and as such I review every single book I read and products I receive including picture and board books, middle grade, young adult, fiction, non-fiction, memoir, parenting, etc. I normally do not read romance, chick-lit, or erotica. I don't care for books that are vulgar, overly sexual, and has an unusual amount of foul language. I do not consider e-books or pdf’s for review. I will consider self-published books. My acceptance of a review copy does not guarantee that I will write a review. If I finish reading the book, I will write a review. If I read more than half of the book but discontinue I will write a synopsis and then a semi-review as I state reasons why I could not continue reading it. Every once in a while I receive a book for review and realize right away that I’m not a good match. I will try, but can’t guarantee, to pass these books onto other bloggers for review. I also do not guarantee that the review will be positive. It will always be my honest opinion of the book or product. I always include product picture or book cover, link to author/prooduct website, synopsis, and my personal thoughts about the book/product in each review. I may take the synopsis from the book cover or dust jacket.

I try to read the review titles/products that I receive in a timely manner but it sometimes may take a while. If the book is an ARC, I will try to review the book in the month surrounding its release date, before the book is published. The exception to this is blog tours and author interviews in which I will post the review on a specified date.

I do not receive any compensation for writing reviews. I do, however, appreciate the donation of an extra book/ product for giveaways for my readers, or an autographed copy of a book for myself every once in a while.

Please feel free to contact me with your review request. I look forward to working with you. You can email me at abookishmom {at} yahoo {dot} com