The 2022 Book Review contest deadline is in one week, 10PM EST October 1st! Details for the contest can be found here. This year first place gets $1000 and runs in this very newsletter. I can pay with PayPal, Venmo, or Zelle. Please, one submission per subscriber. Remember to email from your subscriber email or at least let me know what email you’re subscribed under when submitting.
Submissions that come in after deadline will not be considered; it just isn’t fair to the people who get their reviews in on time.
Also, it’s time for September subscriber writing. Please see here for details and make sure to email me at fredrik.deboer@gmail.com if you do submit to make my life easier. Deadline for this month is Tuesday, September 27th! I’m giving you guys a little less runway for getting your submissions in, in an effort to make it harder for me to miss people’s submissions by keeping them more tightly grouped. Also, please use the following format in your submission if you can remember to:
Your Preferred Name, Your Piece of Writing's Title with Hyperlink
one-sentence synopsis of your piece
That really makes my life much easier. If I messed up previously and promised to include your entry this month, please email to remind me! If you submitted something before the submission period began, submit it again! And if you don’t use the fredrik.deboer@gmail.com address, I have no sympathy if I fail to include you. I look forward to seeing what you come up with.
If someone needs a book to review, I need reviews for:
18 Months: A Memoir of a Marriage Lost to Gender Identity
to be released October 16 on Amazon. (blurb and more info are at http://shannonthrace.com)
I'm happy to send a physical book or an electronic ARC. Excerpts are available on my substack--if interested come visit me there, so as not to give yourself away here.
As Freddie is not considering previously published work, I will not seek to publish or excerpt said review until after the contest and with the permission of the relevant parties.
I have a Wordpress blog that I haven't managed to update in well over a year, after my blogging momentum had already been waning for quite a while. I have a post or two on there that I'm proud enough of, and judge as relevant enough to the interests of Freddie's readership, to submit as subscriber writing. One in particular, which I wrote in early 2018 I think, is a critique of an article called "Laziness Does Not Exist" which was making the rounds at the time, and I was thinking of submitting it for one of the calls for subscriber writing even *before* Freddie recently participated in a podcast with the writer of the "laziness" article.
But I notice that pretty much all links to subscriber writing so far have been *very recent* writing by currently active bloggers/journalists and (less importantly but relatedly) that none are from Wordpress and in fact, the vast majority are Substack articles or otherwise from webpages that come across a little more polished. So I'm feeling a bit shy about submitting any of my old(-ish) stuff. It's not as though there's anything particularly dated about most of the points I was trying to make 4-5 years ago, but it still feels weird. Are there any major guidelines and/or restrictions on the subscriber writing, including parameters such as "should be from the past year"?