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Guest Reviewers and Contributors Terms and Conditions with Reader Review Upload Form

Note: We are currently not accepting new reviewers or contributors. Sign up to our free newsletter below, so that you will know what’s new including but not limited to if and when we start accepting expressions of interest again. However, you can choose to submit your reviews, articles, or other content free of charge through our free BREW Directory; if you are interested in this option, click here.

Here at BREW, we aim to make things as short and simple as possible. Please do note, however, that our review team terms and conditions may change from time to time to remain attuned to what’s really best for all concerned. Thus, you are encouraged to bookmark this page to remain updated. From 15 June 2022, the terms and conditions specified herein will also apply to all BREW Guest Contributing Writers, Guest Reviewers, and BREW Contributors submitting reader reviews (and not editorial reviews). Kindly note that there is a separate page of terms and conditions as well as acceptance parameters for paid editorial reviewers and contributors.

Here are shortcuts to information, which you may find useful in your BREW book reviewing journey. If you have not read them yet, you are strongly encouraged to do so first before submitting your response to the form below.

General Review Terms and Conditions

Here are some of the salient details:

  • If you are new to BREW or if this is your first time submitting a BREW book review, ensure that you submit the form at the bottom after you have fully read, understood, and agreed with all of the terms and conditions specified on this page.
  • Every time a review opportunity comes up, you will receive an email from us.
    • In the same email, you will be provided with further steps and other details specific to the book review task.
    • If you can do the review, reply to the email within 24 hours. If not, we will offer the opportunity to the next available reader, reviewer, or contributor.
  • Reviews should have no spoilers in any way, even if well-meant.
  • Reviews of children’s books with less than 2,500 words may have 300 words only.
  • Generally, all other reviews should have at least 500 words. You may write more words, as you wish.
  • Give the book a rating of up to 5 stars, which you think it deserves where 1 star means it is not good while 5 stars will mean it’s perfect.
  • Because reviews submitted through this form are reader reviews (and not professional reviews), we’d like to be as dynamic and responsive to the needs of the times as much as possible.
    • Use any review format that you believe is best, as long as you present valid supporting write-ups for your rating.
    • If you’ve already reviewed for another site before, feel free to use the same format if you are comfortable with it.
  • Whereas our reviews’ format is flexible, our intent is fixed: Our business is to lift each other up, and not to pull anyone down.
    • Thus, be creatively frank (i.e. state what really is in a more generally acceptable way that you can) and straightforward (i.e. rational and logical) yet constructive and fair with your write-up.
    • If you’ve given a book 1 out of stars, for example, still write as many positive points for the book as you can.
  • If it’s your first time writing a BREW book review, we recommend that you look at book review samples published on our website. Here are some of them:
  • Do NOT publish the review elsewhere.
  • You will be provided with further information on what the next step(s) will be.
    • Generally, you will be given the approval to share the review link to your websites, social media, or other sites that you’re able to post on. Doing so, though, should always be voluntary as it is merely optional.
    • The additional specific task(s) for your review, if any, will be indicated in the email you’d receive from BREW.
  • If you’ve got any questions, comments, or recommendations, reply to the email sent to you related to your specific inquiry or use our Contact Form for general inquiries.

About BREW Links and Communication Channels

Important Notes

  1. As we are now a business, it is paramount that all BREW clients contact us through our official communication channels – i.e. through our BREW Contact Form or by emailing us via info@thechrysalisbrewproject.com. 
  2. We would like to avoid scenarios where authors or clients are contacting BREW contributors individually.
  3. We know that it may be impossible at times not to be contacted by authors or clients. Thus, in case they contact you to request a review or for another query, kindly use the following scripting:
  4. If any of BREW’s clients will notify us that you referred the sale, we will manually process your 5% commission via PayPal. 
  5. We hope the above helps you somehow, in as much as we appreciate your being with us in this literary journey.

Free Directory Listing

Whereas in the above section we are restricting the placement of links and other information that will entice BREW clients and audiences to directly contact you, we would still like to support you and your non-BREW endeavours in reasonable ways we can.

Thus, we are pleased to announce that BREW now has a new feature – the BREW Directory.

Here are the salient details:

  • If you have a book, product, blog, website, offer, freebie, announcement, article, news piece, press release, or anything you’d like to share, feel free to create your own free listing.
  • You can create as many listings as you wish, as long as they are legal and do not violate terms and conditions.
  • You can include your email (so prospective clients can contact you directly), website links, images (up to 6), and even a link to a YouTube video.
  • The listings go live as soon as you publish them. However, you need to complete the relevant BREW form if you want them to be included in BREW newsletters.
  • There’s an option to upgrade listings to Featured status for 36.5 AUD per year. But, that’s entirely optional.
  • Here’s the link to more information: https://thechrysalisbrewproject.com/directory/

Submissions and copyright

Now that BREW is a business, we have to take extra care and effort to protect our content and rights as well as to respect others’ as well. Thus, we have the following policies in place:

  • All submissions must be your own original work and not published elsewhere.
  • All submissions must be checked against an appropriate plagiarism or duplicate checker to ensure that no other similar post exists on another site.
  • In the event that another’s work needs to be quoted, ensure that you have rights or permission to do so and that the relevant source URL link is provided along with your submission.
  • For book reviews, you may include up to 20 words of quoted text provided that the said text is relevant to the review and will not be tantamount to giving out spoilers.
  • Once published on the BREW website or sibling sites, all submissions will become BREW properties.
    • You are unable to use any part thereof on another site or for any other purpose – unless we have given an expressed special approval for you to do so.

BREW Messaging Codes

As we have different time zones – midday here may be midnight at your end or vice versa, for example, we thought of coming up with a general BREW code for all our emails and messages. We also encourage you to use the codes, when applicable, so we could understand each other.

Here are the codes and what they mean:

  • URGENT: The message requires information or action to be provided or done preferably within 24 hours or less.
  • IMPORTANT: The message requires information or action to be provided or done preferably within 1 to 5 business days.
  • Unmarked message: A message with none of the above 2 codes can be acted upon whenever you already can.

*Kindly note that the above codes do not replace timelines or submission due dates for reviews, articles, or another BREW task where there are dates specified or agreed upon.

How to Submit Your Book Review

Step 1: Know all the rules

Read all the policies, terms, and conditions on this page as well as on all the links that this page refers to.

Step 2: Create a listing for your review

If you have read, understood, and agreed with all the terms and conditions, do the following:

  • Step 2.1: Log in to your WordPress account.
  • Step 2.2: If you are already logged in to your WordPress account, log in to your BREW account.
  • Step 2.3: Once you are logged in to both your WordPress and BREW accounts, you can then start creating your listing through this link:  https://thechrysalisbrewproject.com/listing-form/#Create_a_listing.
  • Step 2.4: Fill in the required information. You may skip optional fields. Ensure that you use the correct listing “Category” in the space provided.
  • Step 2.5: Tick the required boxes and click ‘Place Listing.’ (Note: While you may be prompted to upgrade your listing for a fee, this is optional and can be skipped. Please be aware that all entries on the form may be visible to site visitors, so only include information you are comfortable sharing publicly.)

Step 3: Complete the form below, if you have not done it before yet.

If you are a new BREW reviewer or a contributor using the above form for the first time, this step is required. If this is not your first time to make a submission, you may skip this step.

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