How Not to Ask for a Book Review

As a review site I thought it might be prudent to start these posts off on how to approach someone to review your book. We have a form on the site for you to submit your book but what if you run across a blogger or a book reviewer for a newspaper or magazine whose reviews you like, and you wondered if they would be as generous with your book? You've done your research, you've discovered their favourite genres, so what's next? How do you approach them?

The following are requests I've actually received over the years for reviews. Let's look at what you shouldn't do when asking for a book review.

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