We are artists.  Most of us are full-time professional artists.   Some of us are also published writers and authors.

At this website, we review art-related books and videos. Many of our reviews are highlighted with our unique one-minute audio reviews.

We help you select art books and videos so that you’ll save time and money, and make the best possible choices.

Should we review your book or video?

If your book or video should be reviewed here, use the Contact form (linked above) to let us know.

We will need one non-returnable copy of your book or video.  (If you’d like more than one reviewer to write about it, we’ll need one copy for each reviewer you specify.)

Would you like to review books and videos for us?

We aren’t looking for new reviewers at this time.

However, when we do add reviewers, the following requirements must be met:

• You must be a professional artist or work at a professional level.
• You must be a self-starter who can work without close supervision.
• You must be able to write well, without typos. (Use a spell- and grammar-checker.)
• You must be prepared to write good reviews, at least 10 sentences long,  within two weeks of receiving the product.
• You must be familiar with WordPress 2.9, and be able to use it without training or supervision.
• You must know how to add Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk links.
• You must be able to create images for your reviews in the following sizes: 75 pixels, square; 255 x 88 pixels; and a book cover image about 150 or 200 pixels, square.  All images must be reduced for Internet use.

If you feel that you are qualified and want to be on the waiting list as a reviewer, use the Contact form linked above.  Tell us your field, so we know which category or categories you’ll review.  Include your website URL and, if we don’t know you, information about your career.

Note: Your message to us should reflect your writing skills.  Requests with typos will not be considered.  (British and American spellings are equally acceptable.)

We’ll let you know when we have an opening in your field.

Reviewers may receive free copies of books and videos in their categories.  They may also post their own Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk affiliate links.  Every reviewer can create his or her own bio page, with website links.

Review copies and Amazon commissions

As the decription above suggests, our reviewers sometimes receive free books or products to review.  That’s standard in the publishing industry.

We never accept free items if we’re required to write a review, or required to say something favorable.

Also, our links usually lead to Amazon or B&N.  If someone clicks on that link and buys something, one of our reviewers or this website may earn a small, standard affiliate commission.  That offsets our writing and website expenses.

However, our opinions are never influenced by whether or not we’d earn money from our reviews.

If it bothers you that a reviewer or this website might make a few cents from your purchase, don’t click on the link.  Instead, go to your favorite bookseller and find the book on your own.

Keep in mind that those commissions are often the only way we can justify the time it takes to write and post a review.  Those commissions also make it possible for this website to stay online.

So, if you see fewer new reviews or this website vanishes, it’s because the project wasn’t self-supporting.

I doubt that things will ever reach that point, but I wanted to explain that to our visitors, so you understand how this site is financed.

We accept no cash or payment of any kind (except the review copy) for the time we spend writing and posting reviews.  Our reviews are always unbiased.