Reviews

• This location is for already written reviews ONLY.
• We only publish reviews of books published during the current or previous calendar year.
• Not interested in negative reviews, however, discussion of a manuscript's strengths and weaknesses might include negative aspects.
• Title information must be included with submission along with the following: author name, publisher, publication date, ISBN, price, page count.
• All reviewed books must have an ISBN.
• Review writer's name and PHYSICAL address must appear on submitted work. We will not read a submission without both. 
• We will ask the review writer's relationship to the author or the publisher in order to avoid promotional material disguised as review.

Our focus is on publishers and authors who don't get much attention from mainstream media. Since there are many of those and we like to (at least) mention as many as possible. Review lengths matter and are specific to genre. We appreciate it when reviewers respect these length guidelines:

• Poetry Chapbooks (52 pages or less): up to 400 words. 
• Full-length Poetry or Short Fiction Collections: up to 600 words
• Novels, Nonfiction : up to 800 words

The goal of reviews featured in The Main Street Rag: Connecting author to audience. If you can't think of an audience that would enjoy reading a particular book, then we would not be interested in publishing your review. We also don't run promo material disguised as review. If you have a relationship with the author or press, we want to know what that relationship is prior to considering the review and will scrutinize the review carefully for objectivity.