About This Site

Welcome! My hope is that paranormal readers can use this site to find new romance in the subjects they love most. Comments are turned off all posts and pages for now. They may be allowed later for contests or special articles, but not routinely. Instead, readers should follow links in articles and listings to go to the author's website, blog, or other social media.  If you have comments or questions about this site, you can email them to riskyreaders@donnamcdonaldauthor.com.

How can a Risky Reader (that's you) use the blog?

• Genre Listing Links at top -- Click the link at the top of the blog site for the kind of book you like to read or one you're interested in reading. Some will have excerpts. Others will just be a simple listing.
  
• Follow Risky Readers on Twitter -- @RiskyReaders
• Follow Risky Readers on Facebook -- We are able to do contests there that may not be available on the blog. So if you are on Facebook, stop by and like our page so you'll get notifications in your newsfeed.
  

• Follow By Email or RSS feed -- You can follow the blog by email and get new articles mailed to your inbox. This means you will get everything that passes through us in all the paranormal genres, but it is an option. You can also have the articles delivered by RSS feeds. Both of these are available.

• Bookmark and Visit Often -- You can bookmark this site and return to visit when you are looking for something new to read. There will be lots more books added as time goes by and I'm sure you'll find something of interest here.

How can you help us build the site?

• You can share us on your social media and let others know about it. More visits to the page help these authors get their work in front of readers who might like their work.
  
• Read the books. Write to the authors. Tell your friends when you find books here.
  
• Post constructive reviews of the books on your favorite review site.
• If you are blogger who features authors and books, write to some of the authors and see if they want to be featured on your blog.

Want to submit a paranormal question for authors to answer?
Email potential questions to riskyreaders@donnamcdonaldauthor.com. At some point when the site is populated well, I will try to gather a few authors willing to answer the questions and create an article. Here are some I'm contemplating already. 

• What Is It About Dragons That Makes You Write About Them?
• Vampires: Heroes or Villain? Tell us about yours.

Contact/Submit Info

INFORMATION FOR READERS

Check out the About This Site link before your write to me. Thanks.

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INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS

We are currently taking submissions from paranormal romance authors wanting to be featured. Indie and traditionally published authors are both welcome. Work must be both paranormal AND a romance. To increase your chances of a yes from us, please read all the following before sending us a request. Thank you.

If You Write YOUNG ADULT or NEW ADULT Paranormal Romance,  

Please Read This Information Before Submitting A Title To Us 

 

At this time we are not seeking any YA or NA titles for features. New Adult might be an okay fit, but these titles will be reviewed on a case by case basis.  Some of the excerpts on this site have some graphic language and some mild sex scenes, such as touching or kissing. Though we take reasonable precautions to keep the content above a R rating, none of the features on this site are suitable for young YA readers. 

If You Write PARANORMAL EROTIC ROMANCE, 

Please Read This Information Before Submitting A Title To Us  

Covers and excerpts must support the Risky Readers site in striving to maintain a PG13/R rating, BUT also remember that readers may purchase this book based on this feature. This means that we hope the covers, blurbs, and excerpts fairly represent the title being featured. We want as many readers as possible to feel comfortable browsing this site to find new paranormal romances to read. 

At time time, we have adopted a middle-of-the road acceptance policy. This means we are not featuring titles with menage covers and excerpts, and we are not willing to feature books with non-consensual sex scenes of any sort even those that end well.

If you want to be featured here, please offer us titles that are "middle-of-road" in terms of language and explicitness so we can promote your writing and work alongside the rest of our authors. Lots of RR authors write many different heat levels. We link to your author website in your article. Readers that choose to do so will be able to click the link and see the full range of your work on your site.

We hate saying no to featuring books because of content or covers, but we are learning to say it when we think we can't promote a book fairly.

Other Considerations 

 

Books submitted to Risky Readers should adhere to minimal good writing practices such as being professionally edited. They also must be available for sale or download on at least two standard sales sites commonly used by readers, such as Amazon, B&N, Apple, Kobo, Smashwords, ARe, etc.

HOW TO SUBMIT A REQUEST (it's easy) 

 

Send us a link to the Amazon (or other sales channel) sale page for the book you would like to see featured. Email: riskyreaders@donnamcdonaldauthor.com

Tell us 2-3 paranormal romance sub-genre labels you might want for your title (such as Werewolves and Time Travel). Please look at some of the titles and see how it works. Click your potential label to see what shows up in that search.

After we check out your book, we will get back to you about what we need to put together the feature. We look forward to featuring your work (our readers do too).