Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes

I’ve been blogging for a few years now, starting well before I published Shallow Waters in December last year. I wrote about my love of crime fiction and my journey towards my debut novel being released. Within those parameters, I wrote posts about books I’d been reading. The majority of which were naturally biased towards crime.

Over time, this has turned more and more into a proper reviewers role. As well as being a member of NetGalley, I’m also in contact with several publishing houses PRs who send me books before they’re released so I can review them. I know this is an honour. The publisher/author and reviewer relationship, as I know (because even though I publish myself, I still have to do all these roles myself) are symbiotic. The publisher/author can create a buzz for their book by getting advance readers talking about their upcoming release and the book…