Submitting Review Copies

The Rap Sheet does very few straightforward book reviews. We generally reserve those for our partner site, January Magazine. Rap Sheet editor J. Kingston Pierce is also the crime-fiction editor of January.

Before trying to send Pierce an advance reading copy or finished review copy, please shoot him an e-mail note at jpwrites@wordcuts.org, asking for the appropriate snail-mail office address. He will advise you on whether he’s interested in receiving the book. Unfortunately, both The Rap Sheet and January Magazine are short-staffed, and we simply cannot read every book authors or publishers would like to send our way.

And in no case is any promise given that a book sent to January or The Rap Sheet will be the subject of an endorsement or review, either positive or negative.