I sent a message to the "contact" facility of the site a good few days ago and still haven't received a reply.
My question is simple: how do I submit a review?
I've been helping out (a little) a new author with a story he had been working on and now he has started to post it on Sol. I have read the whole thing (apart from the last chapter) and would like to write a review of it.
I don't think it's a good idea to allow people to review stories they effectively co-authored.
A reviewer needs to be committed to reviewing more than just one story.
You could always post your review in a blog post, or post it to the forum in the Story Recommendations section.
AJ
I mean, thats what half the reviews feel like right now anyway, advertisements for the author. Go read the review for The Amulets of Power V: A New Beginning, its a guy talking up the author and "reviewing" a story he has not read the VAST majority of. He wrote a review which has absolutely fucking nothing to do with the actual story, because he hasn't read the actual story because he was reviewing it before it was fully posted, as he says it was "just starting". This is a review which is COMPLETELY worthless. If these are the people who have reviewing privileges, what is the point? In any sane world, reviewers like this would get removed immediately, but its been an active review on this site for 9 years. This guy literally uploaded a review of the story after reading 2 chapters out of 18. This is why the review system on this site is less than worthless.
how do I submit a review?
You need to be an approved reviewer. There's a process for that.
I also agree that you shouldn't review a story you worked on.
How do you start t the process? I've been around for years, but have never found out. Tbf, I wasn't all that interested until recently.
How do you start t the process?
I have no idea. I would send a message to Lazeez in the "contact webmaster."
I think I should be clear that by "helped out" I mean I acted as a little bit of a sounding board and a cheerleader. I am not, unfortunately, capable of writing a novel, or anything of the sort. I contributed not even a phrase.
However, I do agree that my involvement, such as it is, should be disclosed on the first line of the review.
Why not just put a post on the story recommendations forum of this site, with a suitable warning that you acted as a helper?