Spring has sprung again! As those April showers are bringing in the May flowers, check out our new reviews page for some great books to curl up with inside.

*** We have had to make some changes to our review request policy. Please see the right side bar for details on what has changed. Thank you. (Changes are in bold) ***

*** We are aware there are some graphic problems with our site presently. we are trying to fix them so please bear with us. ***

*** Check out some of the feedback we've gotten about our site! ***

*** Welcome to the CK2S Kwips and Kritiques Second Anniversary Bash Contest! We can't believe we're two years old already. So to celebrate our birthday YOU get the gifts! Check out this fantastic lineup of prizes! And who knows, we may have a few more surprises added before the end. To make up for the contests we've had which international visitors could not enter, we've made this contest an ALL eBOOK event! This time we planned an exciting scavenger hunt. Check out our contests page to see how to enter! ***

*** The Anniversary Bash Contest deadline is being extended one month. The new deadline is May 10 2008. ***

*** Our moderators over at the book club are hard at work scheduling exciting events for everyone to enjoy. We hope you'll visit and participate in some of the chats.
Coming soon:
May 10 12-6 pm CST SRN Authors
Check back for dates and times!
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*** We have a new interview this month with Maria V Snyder. Please go check it out and see what Maria talked about with Kelley and Debbie. ***

*** This month we have over 110 new reviews for your viewing pleasure! ***

*** Recommended Reads for April:
Check out what books stand out in our eyes this month! We will list the current month's here and the rest will be on the webpage.
Anne - Suck Me Dry by Beverly Rae
Cindy - With Every Breath by Lynn Kurland (releases June 2008)
Crystal - No Second Chance by Maggie Toussaint
Debbie - The Esri: Dark Deceiver by Pamela Palmer (releases June 2008)
Jennifer -
The Black Dagger Brotherhood Book 6: Lover Enshrined by J.R. Ward
Kelley - Fire Study by Maria V Snyder
Scions: Insurrection by Patrice Michelle
Marilyn - Forevermore by Cathy Marie Hake
Terri - The Accidental Werewolf by Dakota Cassidy

*** Visit our Amazon aStore to purchase our recommended reads of this month and those previous and to purchase books by our featured authors each month. ***

*** We have some more exciting news from the web on our news page with all sorts of news and contest information from around the web. Please visit our News from the Web page to find out the latest. If you have news you'd like to share with our reading community, please send it to us and we will get it posted. ***

*** Join our mailing list! Please sign up by clicking on the Newsletter above in our menu bar. Please keep in mind, the opt-in process is a two step procedure. After signing up, you must follow a second step to confirm membership. ***

*** Now open!!! Our Cafe Press store is open for business! We hope you'll visit our store and find something there that you like. We have a variety of products with our logos on them and we'll be adding more soon! (Note: Proceeds from sales will go towards maintenance fees of the website) ***

Please help us pay for the maintenance of our website. Would you be so kind as to use some of our Amazon links, found on every page?

Now OPEN!
Amazon aStore
Cafe Press Store

Keep visiting! There's no telling what we'll do next!

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We find ourselves in need of a few reviewers. We are looking for people who prefer NON-paranormal genres, with our greatest need being for multi-cultural, contemporary and historical readers. Willingness to review eBooks primarily is an absolute requirement. (At least 90% of our total review requests are electronic formats only) If you are interested please submit a sample review and we'll get back to you as soon as we can after we look at it.

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A couple changes to our review request policy effective immediately:
We are overwhelmed at the volume of review requests pouring in from a variety of publishers! While this in itself is wonderful news for us and for the publishing industry as a whole, it has made necessary a few changes to our review requests received. See below for the changes...

Authors, are you interested in having your books reviewed here? If so send in your requests. Please include in your queries ALL of the following information:
Title
Author
ISBN (if assigned, if not please state none assigned)
Publication date (Month and Year)
Publisher
Story Description
What formats the review copies of the books are available in.

PLEASE NOTE: Unfortunately, we can no longer accept requests without ALL of the above information. If we do not receive all the required info, the review request WILL NOT be forwarded on for a volunteer. We are still a small site with a large number of requests and can no longer continue to go back and request the additional information left out of the original request.

Thanks! We are still a very small site but we'll be happy to see if we have a volunteer for your books. We cannot promise every request sent to us will be filled, but we will do as much as we can as fast as we can. Also please keep in mind, we will not love every book that comes our way. We will post reviews with low ratings if we truly feel it is necessary.

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We are two years old now and so excited to be able to celebrate with everyone! I thought our anniversary/birthday was the perfect time to reflect on how CK2S came in to the cyber world.

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A little about us...
We are book lovers who enjoy sharing our opinions about books and authors with others. We won't love every book we read but if we don't like it, you'll know why. This is a labor of love.

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Check out some of the feedback we've gotten about our site! We'll add to this page when comments come floating in.

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We are a small staff who tries our best to bring the latest in the publishing world to others. We'll never be huge and we won't be able to take on even a fraction of all the publishers out there but we're not ruling out partnering with more in the future.

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PLEASE NOTE: With regards to graphics posted on the site the decision has been made that we want to be family friendly, and therefore will not be posting banners, book covers, or other graphics that we consider to be "NC-17" or "X" rated. We won't be posting graphics with excessive nudity. In cases where  a book is reviewed with cover art we do not consider appropriate, cover art will not be posted. We DO review erotica, but we still want to keep this website family friendly in regards to art work.

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Our rating system:
5 Klovers - Excellent
4 Klovers - Good
3 Klovers - Average
2 Klovers - You may want to think about it first
1 Klover - Pass on this one

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We are more than willing to post author and publisher links free of charge. Please keep in mind we will NOT post graphics that we feel have excessive nudity or would be considered too suggestive. All we ask is that you please return the favor and select one of our banners from our Links to Us page if you are featured on our link page. If you are not on the page and would like to be, please send your banner to Kelley and she will get it posted.

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At this time we are not taking interview requests. We don't want to end up being scheduled several months in advance so we are sticking to contacting authors to request interviews with them as we are able. This will possibly change in the future but for now we decided this was the best route to go. We will be scheduling them as we can and as often as we are able.

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