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

No, like I wrote earlier on there was one author who requested we not post the review because it pointed out the various parts in the book the reviewer felt fell short to classify it the genre the writer stated it was.

What does your site offer readers?

We host interviews with authors, chats to meet some of the authors, and we also have the Bragging Rites yahoo group where we invite our readers to join us and read upcoming new releases, read excerpts and meet some of the authors online.

What is the most rewarding aspect of being a reviewer?

Knowing with each review, if the writer knows how to properly read a review, I am helping them hone their future work.

Is there anything else you would like to say about you or The Muse Book Reviews?

I’d like to add that reviewing books is truly an honor for us because we have someone’s baby in our hands. Believe it or not, we try to find good qualities first over the bad ones in any book and not out to ‘get a writer’. We have been lucky and blessed to have had writers with quality books, some 1 rose rated and others 4 roses rated. Most of our authors have emailed us to thank us for our honesty and they now, after reflecting on what we wrote, can see how to improve that area in their writing in their upcoming books. This is the best flattery anyone can give us and we’ll continue offering our honest reviews.

Thank you, Lea!