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Kirkus is now offering a new review service, giving all writers the opportunity to get attention for their books and giving rights and acquisitions agents the chance to watch out for books that might interest them. Any book is fair game, whether conventionally published, self-published, e-published, published via Print-On-Demand or previously unpublished.
NOTE: Kirkus Reviews and Kirkus Discoveries are separate book-review services.

Kirkus Discoveries, unlike Kirkus Reviews, is a paid-review service that allows authors and publishers of overlooked titles to receive authoritative, careful assessment of their books.
NOTE: Kirkus Reviews, an independent book-review journal, does not charge for reviews.

Here's how the Kirkus Discoveries program works:

•A review is commissioned from the Discoveries team, who assigns the book to one person within the Kirkus-brand pool of professional reviewers, who in turn provides an honest, caveat-emptor evaluation, under the same impartial rubric as Kirkus Reviews. Our long-standing editorial policy of anonymous reviews also applies to the Discoveries program.

**VERY IMPORTANT: All Kirkus Discoveries reviews are final and non-refundable. We DO NOT send books out for a second review.

•The review, written in the same format and style as a traditional Kirkus review, is sent by email to the author or publisher as a PDF document. (Allow 7-9 weeks for turnaround, depending on service). The author or publisher is free to excerpt the review or reprint it in whole as part of any promotional or marketing material, whether print or online.
NOTE: All reviews must be attributed exactly as follows: Kirkus Discoveries. Once again, Kirkus Reviews and Kirkus Discoveries are separate book-review services. Attributing a Kirkus Discoveries review to Kirkus Reviews is incorrect and misleading. False attribution will result in corrective measures.

• At the author or publisher's request, the review is then posted on the Discoveries website, which has a wide audience of librarians, agents, rights representatives, booksellers and film and television producers.

• Reviews are eligible for inclusion in the monthly Kirkus Discoveries eNewsletter, which highlights the best submissions to the program, at no extra cost. That HTML newsletter goes to a targeted base of subscribers, most of whom are looking for the rights--including both print and film--to books and unpublished manuscripts.

Click here to signup for the free monthly Kirkus Discoveries eNewsletter!

Please send all questions and comments to: discoveries@kirkusreviews.com