Have you received aggressive responses from authors or publishers because of a negative review? If yes, how do you handle it?

It has happened. I feel it is unprofessional of an author (or publisher) to directly attack a reviewer for just giving his or her opinion. I can expect it from readers but an author should not get involved as it always leads to a nasty situation! Every time an aggressive response is given it really disappoints the reviewer and it just feels like you can’t be honest or you’ll get snapped at. (It only happened twice over the three years that we’re reviewing.)

What does your site offer readers?

We offer reviews for our Dutch as well as our English audience and try to cover both prints and e-books as well as an occasional audiobook. We’ve also had the pleasure to interview several authors in the past and hopefully many more to follow. Authors, and even readers, are free to share stories related to either books or travelling. It would be really nice to have a list of experiences from people who visited different places all over Europe. We also have a weekly column done by Morgan Ashbury and from time to time we have a listing of contests.

What promotional opportunities does your site offer authors?

Authors are free to place book excerpts and promo messages in our yahoo group. They can place banners or cover ads on our site, they can do a column if they’d like or write articles on our site. They can post their contests and I also personally select ‘announcements’ every now and then to give some promo to (mostly) organisations or events that I think deserve it.

Thanks for your time, Eveline! I appreciate it!