Follow the steps below to submit your Episode Interactive Story for an honest review.
Please note that by submitting your story, you are not guaranteed a review.

Review Policy

Please read the guidelines and requirements below before submitting your story to me.

Genres I review

Paranormal Romance
Fantasy (all kinds)
Sci-Fi

Genres I do no review

Erotica
Non-fiction
Children’s books

BONUS POINTS:
If your story has a strong female protagonist (or antagonist for that matter)
and non-cringey romance (think ANTI-TWILIGHT), then I will have a hard time not reading your story.

I post reviews on my blog, Amazon.com, and Goodreads.
I do not charge for reviews, nor do I accept money for reviews.
I do not post negative reviews. I may contact you privately with feedback, but that is the extent.
I prefer to review Indie books, but please make sure your spelling and grammar is near-perfect. A few errors are fine, we’re human after all.

Before submitting, please make sure your story meets the following specifications:
• Written in English (I can’t read stories in other languages sorry)
• Has zero (or minor) spelling and grammatical errors
• Does not include subject matter which glorifies racism, sexisim, sexual abuse, or animal abuse

For further info I recommend scrolling to the bottom of this page and reading my FAQs before completing the submission process.

Finally! Let’s get to the fun part.

Please follow steps 1 – 3 to submit your story below.

Step One
Join My List of Awesome People

You’ll receive the occasional email update about what’s going on in my crazy world.
Signed up to the list on a different page? You must sign up using the form below.

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Who are you? *
Are you Self Published? *

Step Two

Make sure you’re following me on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.*
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*If you don’t have one of or all of these accounts this does not disqualify you. Please simply note it in your submission form.

Step Three

Complete This Submission Form

Review FAQs

What happens if my book is accepted?
I will send you an email to let you know that I have added your book to my review queue.

I will read your entire book. If for some reason I am unable to finish, I will let you know.

Please respect that this process takes some time.

If I begin your book and then realise it is not something I enjoy, I will let you know.

If your book earns less than 3 stars in my review process I will not share the story review on my website, Amazon, and Goodreads unless you specifically ask me to. However, it is rare that I accept a book for review and then rate it less than three stars.

After finishing and posting my review of your story to my blog, Amazon, and Goodreads– I will send you the following:

An image for you to use on your own social media accounts to promote the review.

HTML for this badge, featuring your story name and star rating, to add to your blog or website:

Reviews will be based on the following:

Overall Quality of the Story Line
1 – 5 Stars

Ability to surprise / hook / interest the reader
1 – 5 Stars

Spelling and Grammar
1 – 5 Stars

Dialogue Quality
1 – 5 Stars

Depth of the Characters
1 – 5 Stars

Your story’s overall rating will be generated from your score in the above.

The body of the review will cover all points above and a summary of the reading experience / my overall thoughts and feelings.

Yes! I will email you if I accept your book for review and I will email you if I decide to decline.
I will email you to let you know.

Depending on why I have declined to review your book I may offer some feedback to you– but in most cases I will decline because of time restraints or because your story genre is something I do not wish to read at this time.

I will get back to everyone eventually. Please understand that I receive a large volume of emails and have limited time each day to sort through and reply to all of them.

I will get back to you to let you know if I am accepting or declining your story, please do not send a follow up email.

It depends on how much time I have that week, how long your story is, and how many other stories are in front of yours in the queue.

When I begin your book, I will strive to read it within a week and post a review the following week. However, this is subject to my schedule restraints.

*If* you have a very special circumstance and NEED a review by a specific date (for your book cover, media release, etc.) please mention it during submission. It’s possible we can work something out, depending on the time frame.

No. I am not paid for any reviews and do not accept payment for comments or reviews of any kind.
I post all of my reviews on my blog.

I will post a link to Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, and Facebook promoting the review of your story when it goes live. A link to the review will also be sent out to my mailing list.

You will also be sent a post to share on your own social media to promote the review to your friends, family, and followers.

I exclusively post my review on my blog, Amazon, and Goodreads. If you would like me to post the review somewhere different or special, please note it during your submission.

Depending on how long your book is and how many books I have to review ahead of yours, the review process takes a fairly large amount of time.

If I accepted your book for review but you haven’t heard back from me yet, then please be patient. Do not feel the need to send a follow up email.

If your story sounds interesting, I will more than likely add it to my review queue.

Genres I am particularly fond of such as Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, and Sci-Fi will receive a preference, but I am a lover of all genres.

I will decline your story if:

  • It is overtly sexual for no reason
  • You over-use swear words for no apparent reason
  • It glorifies racisim, sexisim, animal abuse, or sexual abuse.
  • The grammar and spelling is below standard.
  • I do not find it interesting / exciting enough to continue reading past the first chapter.
I will decline your story if:

  • It is overtly sexual for no reason
  • The swearing is off the scale for seemingly no reason
  • It glorifies racisim, sexisim, animal abuse, or sexual abuse.
  • The grammar and spelling is below standard.
  • I do not find it interesting / exciting enough to continue reading past the first chapter.
No. While I prefer to review self-published authors, I’m happy to accept reviews requests from publishers as well.
Requesting a review and having it shared is an excellent way to gain more readers and exposure for your book.

Reviews are also a fantastic way to gain useful feedback on your story and writing style, allowing you to improve as an author.

Have you read ‘Of Flesh and Fire’ Yet?

Available from Amazon in either ebook or paperback editions.

Of Flesh and Fire | Part One

By Tuesday Cross

Nyminia awakes from the ashes of a deadly fire to find herself not only cursed with fearsome power, but with heavy purpose.
Her life is the silver thread which keeps the world together. Her death, the cord which could unravel everything.

If you enjoy magic, werewolves, vampires, and DRAGONS…. you’ll enjoy this story.
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What is the meaning to life, the universe, and everything?

42.
Now that we’ve covered that, let’s get down to business. Tuesday Cross is … Actually this third person thing is getting tiring, how about I stop pretending I have an assistant who writes this stuff for me and I just write it how I’m thinking it 😉
I constantly get asked “Tuesday, why do you write?”. I would tell you that it’s because of my ‘passion for the written word’ , but really it’s more than that. Passion is a flash-in-the-pan sort of emotion. It fuels us the start, however on those lonely nights bereft of inspiration, where does passion get us? Into bed to try again the next day. Nope, it’s not my passion that drives me to writ. It is the overwhelming cocktail of excitement, imagination, and sense of duty I feel which pushes me to put pen to paper (or more accurately, fingers to keyboard.) Sense of duty? What the heck do I mean by that?

Let me tell you a story. I was born with a book in my hand (just ask my Mum.) I could not be separated from those precious pages, and through the years I soaked in thousands upon thousands of worlds, created by people who had seen and done much more than myself. Reading changed (and saved) my life in many ways, and I am indebted to the authors who did this.
Writing is like a superpower, if you can write, it’s almost a crime to lock it away. If your imagination is brimming with plots, twists, creatures, and adventures untold, how can you keep that to yourself? I know I can’t! You literally have the power to transform someone’s life, even if only for the duration of your book. Transport them to different realms, allow them to live outside our reality. How cool is that?

I began writing stories on Episode Interactive a few years ago. At first I told myself I was just there to read, however by the end of the first week I was already planning out the storyline which would become ‘Of Flesh and Fire’, my first story on the platform. Episode is unique in the way it brings your story off of the pages, you are essentially writing a screenplay and this appealed to my film-school background. After the overwhelmingly positive response to ‘Of Flesh and Fire’ on the Episode Interactive App, I rolled up my sleeves and got to work on the manuscript. Now, a year later, I’m excited to announce that ‘Of Flesh and Fire’ is expected to be published in November 2017.

Well, if you read all of this, you deserve a cookie. If I ever meet you in real life, use the code word ‘Jargon’, and I’ll make sure you get that cookie 😉

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