Contact Us
Reviews
If you have a book you would like us to review: Email your pitch, including the title, author, and release date, to reviews@crimespreemag.com. If we want a copy of the book we will let you know. Please do not send books on spec.
If you would like to write reviews: Email reviews@crimespreemag.com and let us know which title(s) you would like to review or the types of books you like to read. If you have links to reviews you’ve written, please include these.
Articles
If you are an agent/publicist/writer, please take the time to peruse the site to get a feel for what we publish. In addition to interviews, we have articles such as:
- 5 Things (five favorite books, five influences, five favorite writers, etc)
- Cooking with CrimeSpree (a recipe with some photos of the process)
- Behind the Book (how a book came about)
- Author Workspaces (photos of a workspace as well as brief descriptions)
- Pet Spotlight (photos of pets along with anecdotes about them)
When sending in articles, please attach them as a Word doc with the simplest formatting possible. Send images separately as JPG files.
We are open to new things if the idea is well presented.
Send pitches to articles@crimespreemag.com.
FridayReads
Each Friday, we feature a book on the website and Facebook page. There is no charge for these promotions; we do them to promote and encourage reading!
- There is no charge for FridayReads promotions.
- Which books we include is an editorial decision, so please contact us before sending books.
- We do contests with books, audio books, and DVDs.
- FridayReads reaches about 30,000 avid readers each week.
- Promotions stay up for a week and come complete with a mobile-friendly URL.
- We tend to focus on crime fiction (obvs), but will consider all types of genre fiction, literary fiction, women’s fiction, and nonfiction.
- We welcome guest posts from the authors of selected books.
- The FridayReads spots fill up quickly! (We’re usually reserving spots 4-6 months in advance.) To submit a book, send the title, author, release date and brief description to fridayreads@crimespreemag.com.
News
We love sharing news with our readers! Please send news to news@crimespreemag.com . It’s helpful to send it early, and we’re happy to honor embargoes (just be sure to let us know the date until which your news is embargoed).
Advertising
If you would like to advertise at CrimeSpree, email ads@crimespreemag.com and we’ll send you all the info.
Short Stories + Art
Short story submissions are currently on hiatus and we are not currently looking for artwork submissions.
Everything Else
If you have a questionor comment about something else, please send it to info@crimespreemag.com.