Announcing the 2017 RITA Reader Challenge!

A gold dude holding a gold starIt’s that time of year again! Time for our annual RITA® Reader Challenge!

This year, we’re introducing a weekly newsletter, which will serve up weekly tips on reviewing and reminders of deadlines. The newsletter will also keep us organized, so please sign up if you’d like to take part in this year’s RITA Reader Challenge and review one (or some) of the RITA nominated books.

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If you’ve already signed up, you should have already received a link to the RITA Reader Challenge Sign Up spreadsheet. If you did not, please email Amanda

We mentioned the rules in our post about RITA Nomination day, but let’s recap! Here are the basics:

There are 10 different reading deadlines, spanning every ten days. We started with books that are a little shorter to give those who wish to read longer titles more time to read.

We’re limiting the reviews to 2 per book to help keep from flooding the site. These reviews will be posted throughout the week, leading up to the next deadline. If we’ve already reviewed the book on the site, then only one slot will be open for a reviewer.

You can sign up for more than one book, though of course, sharing is caring!

When you submit your review, don’t fret if you don’t get an immediate response from me. On the sign up sheet, if your name is highlighted in yellow, that means your review has been received!

Rules:

Once you have registered for the mailing list, you’ll receive a link to the Google Doc sign-up sheet. Simply list the name you want to be known by when posting the review.

Remember, 2 reviewers per book!

The deadline listed is when readers should submit their reviews. Send your reviews as attached Word, TXT, or Google Docs to amanda@smartbitchestrashybooks.com.

If your review includes images, please send them as attachments.

Reviews will be proofread before posting. If there are any serious changes or clarifications, we’ll let you know!

We can’t provide copies of all the books to those who sign up to review – wish we could!

However, if you’d like to support the site and the RITA® Reader Challenge project with your fine and excellently selected purchases, these retailer links are affiliate coded to provide a 4% commission. If you use them, that is most terrific, and if not, that’s perfectly cool.

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There are always new books to discover in the nominees, and I know some readers love to review in genres they don’t normally read. However you do it, thank you for joining us this year.

This is a community project that we really enjoy because it makes the RITA® ceremony each year more fun, as we know a little bit about all the books that are nominated.

Any questions, feel free to email Amanda!

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  1. Jacqueline says:

    IMMA POOP MY HAPPY PANTS FOR ALL THESE FUTURE REVIEWS!!!! I’m also probably gonna poop my scardy pants and am going to write TWO reviews per each of the two books I picked!

    I write romance novel reviews every week, but they’re video script reviews. Writing for YouTube/video is probably not going to fly because my style is a lot more conversational/jokey/HERE ARE THE THINGS THAT I LOVED IN THIS BOOK. I’ve 0 clue if that style will work on the SBTB site. So! I’m writing a backup review in case the bitches take one look at my 1st submission and are all “OH MY GOD THIS IS TRASH YOU ARE TRASH WE’RE FIRING YOU FROM THE INTERNET!” lmao

  2. Lauren says:

    @Jacqueline- just based on your comment here, I REALLY want to read your reviews now! If you can bring the funny, I think your reviews will be well received!

  3. Jacqueline says:

    @Lauren Awww sweetie, thank ye! That gives me hope and happiness and omg heart feels lol. I like to do the ha-ha thing with my fangirling/word vomit & pray that my video review scripts make SOME sense by the end.

    HERE BE MY PRAYER UNTO CUPID’S ASS THIS DOES THE GOOD FOR BLOG FORMAT haha.

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