Rules and Info Page Updated
Took me a while, but I finally managed to get the Rules and Info page changed to show the new information. The FAQ page has a few changes as well. Please take a look!
Multi-chapter requests are open again, but please read all the new rules before sending me a promo request, no matter if youāre a writer or reader. Things are running differently now so I need more from you in your requests than just a link.
Iāve put it on the FAQ page, but please do not send requests for fic rec lists. I know I answered a few, but I was wholly unprepared for the flood of requests in my inbox. (Seriously, dozens.) This blog is a side project that already takes up quite a bit of time and I donāt have the time or organizational skills necessary to go through and create lists for stories that Iām not promoting already on CSFP. This is a place for you to send me recs, so that I might boost exposure for lesser known stories and writers. There are some wonderful bloggers out there who create spectacular lists and I am just not one of them. Sorry, all!
Below are the additions to the R/I page. The general rules from before still apply. :)
If you'd like to submit your own story for promo, there are a few options I'd like you to consider, particularly for multi-chapter fics that require more time and effort to read through and review. When you send me a link to your story, please specify which option you'd like. Just add "Option #" to your submission/ask/message so I can easily figure out which to use.
Option 1. If you wish for each chapter to be read/reviewed, I will take your request and put your fic on a list for potential reviewer volunteers to read. There's no guarantee on how quickly said reviews would be completed and uploaded, but as the project goes on, I will get a better sense of a rough timeline for you.
Option 2. If you wish for just one review of the overall story, I will queue up reblogs of each chapter and put the same "non-spoiler" review on each one, rather than review chapter by chapter. Depending on how long your fic is, it may take a few weeks for me to read through the whole thing, but once I do, it will be easy to queue up the reblogs twice a week.
Option 3. If you just wish for your fic to be reblogged without reviews, I will queue up every chapter to be reblogged, likely twice a week. This is what I previously called a "Reblog Request." This means that I, or any volunteer reviewers, may not necessarily read the story, but this is an option for exposure and to gain notes on individual chapters. This option is probably best for fics that have thorough summaries already in the body of the post.
Option 4. If you already have a reader review(s) that you really loved, whether from Tumblr or a comment on FF.net/AO3, just let me know and I can quote them beneath the CSFP reblog. (Very much like the critic quotes on the back of novels.) Like option 2, this will be one review to cover the whole fic, unless otherwise specified. Like option 3, this means that I or volunteers may not actually read the story, but it will offer exposure and hopefully boost notes.
If you have a fic that someone else wrote that you would like to submit for promo, particularly a multi-chapter fic, please take a look through these before you send me your recs:
If possible, I'd appreciate you sending me your rec with a review. I figure if you are passionate enough about a story to want to share it here and promote it, you also have read it and probably have things about it you love and would be happy to share. Just add a review along with the link in an ask/submission. You don't need to send me a review for each chapter, just one for the overall fic, but I definitely would appreciate (or, rather, the writer would appreciate) a review for every chapter.
If you wish to remain anonymous, you can send through anon ask, or just mention in your submission "Anonymous Reviewer" and I will not post your Tumblr handle when I reblog.
If you want to review on your own reblog of the writer's fic, just tag @csficpromotion in there and I will reblog from you. (Tags are not always reliable, so to double check you are welcome to send me a message with your reblog link.) Otherwise, if it is sent through ask/submission I will reblog directly from the writerās original post.
I will still accept recs if you don't have a review, but just know that it may be put on the volunteer reviewer request list, and there's no way for me to know exactly how quickly it would be read/reviewed.
FOR ANYONE WISHING TO HELP CSFP AND LESSER KNOWN WRITERS:
I'm looking for volunteer reviewers!! You can let me know through a message or ask if you're willing to take on the role. A few things to know:
I will never send you more fics than you can handle. You will set the cap. If you can only read one story at a time, I will only send you one. If you are happy to go through five, I will only ever give you that many at once. Hopefully this will be a very pressure-free experience.
You will likely be expected to read and review every chapter of a multi-chapter fic. The reviews do not need to be long, minimum 3-4 sentences, and you can flail over things that happened in the chapters and/or comment on the quality of the writing.
If you have to stop/take a break for any reason, please let me know. I'd prefer if you could finish off whichever pending stories you have but if you aren't able, I will give any unread/unreviewed chapters to another volunteer. Life comes first! Don't push through if you're very sick or have a family emergency or if you just are too exhausted to continue.
I will only expect you to read/review one chapter per week. If you find you can only do it once every other week, that's no problem. If you can cut through an entire fic in one weekend, great!
I have created a private blog for volunteers. On it, I will post promo requests so anyone can decide which ones they'd like to read. This will also allow us to easily converse and anyone can provide me with suggestions on rule changes or anything else. I want this to be an inclusive process.
