Three Steps to a Professional Review
Choose Your Review Tier
Select the category that best fits your book: Picture Book, Young Readers, Novellas, Poetry, and shorter Nonfiction, or Standard Fiction and Nonfiction.
See full pricing, word counts, and delivery times (including expedited reviews if you're in a time crunch) on our Pricing page.
Submit Your Book
Complete your purchase and upload your finished digital galley through our secure submission platform and publishing partner, Dapple. You will receive a confirmation message with upload instructions immediately after checkout. Have your author photo (optional) ready, a cover image, a two-line bio, and a 40-word lede; that lede will appear in searches and elsewhere.
Be sure to complete the field with a longer author profile in the submission form; this will also help spread the news about your book.
Receive Your Review
Up to 6 weeks (4 weeks, expedited) a professional reviewer from our editorial board will evaluate your book and deliver a completed review. Dapple tracks this process closely, and your author dashboard will show the progress of your title through the system.
Once you receive a link to your review, you can keep the evaluation private and use it for revision, marketing, or internal planning. If we don't hear otherwise, we'll publish it on Open Shelf Reviews, where it becomes part of a growing catalog discoverable by librarians, educators, booksellers, and readers.