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Coffee Time Reviews Closes to Submissions
Turning my passion project into a more manageable home for book reviews
Hello, dear readers and happy New Year. After months of reflection and consideration, I took the hard but necessary decision to close Coffee Time Reviews to submissions from other writers.
I will continue to publish my own book reviews and bookish content on here, but the element of managing external submissions and writer applications has become too difficult for me to juggle, making me feel overwhelmed and guilt-ridden most days due to my inability to keep up with it.
My proudest project and where it started
I started Coffee Time Reviews in 2021, when I was still at university and trying to build a portfolio of freelance work. It began as a home for the book reviews I wanted to write, that never seemed to be fully on par with ‘conventional’ book reviews, on Medium and otherwise. I call this style of review ‘pour-your-heart-out’ book reviews, which became a catchphrase and key part of the CTR look and feel.
Coffee Time Reviews is the product of months and months of hard work on promoting the publication to readers, authors and publishers and getting book reviewers on board.