Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 14:54:08 -0400 From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu> To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org> Subject: [WSFA] Re: Fwd: Guidelines for Submissions for Review Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org> >samlubell at verizon.net 04/30/04 02:49PM >> From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net> >> Date: 2004/04/30 Fri AM 11:27:25 CDT >> To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org> >> CC: ccah at earthlink.net >> Subject: [WSFA] Fwd: Guidelines for Submissions for Review > >Keith & co, here's a draft of our Book Review policy, please let me know what >you think. > >WSFA Journal Book Review Policy > >All reviews are the personal opinions of the authors of the reviews and do not >reflect any official view of the WSFA Journal or of WSFA. > >Submitting a book to the Journal for review does not establish any obligation for >the Journal to print a review of that book. > >Unless agreed to in advance, the WSFA Journal will not accept books that >have a deadline to be returned. (i.e. no notes saying "if you do not wish to >review my book please send it back to me). Unless the submitter provides a pre paid return package. > >If a book comes to be reviewed the Journal editor can decide to review it >himself or ask if anyone in the club is interested in reviewing it. > >The Journal is under no obligation to print anything submitted to it (including >solicited book reviews) although the Journal has in the past printed everything >from semi-literate book proposals (hey, it was hilarious) to an eleven-year old's >spelling homework (done in the form of an sf story). Might want to address what WSFA does with non-reviewed books. mjw >