New Feature – Submit a Guest Review

ByMikeM Reading Time: 2 minutes

If you’re subscribed to the mailing list, you knew about this over the weekend, but for the rest of you, we have an announcement!

Recently, I’ve come to the realization that Ken and I have had less and less time available for reading and reviewing books, or watching movies and documentaries and writing reviews for the site. We can still post up the occasionally news story to the News and Reviews blog, but the “reviews” portion is starting to lack. I still feel very strongly that sharing good resources, whether they be books or other media, with survivors is an important mission, and that’s why I’m going to open up a place for readers to submit their own reviews.

Obviously, in the interest of reader safety, I’ll be reviewing all submissions before they go live on the site, and there are rules, as you can see in the link below, but I hope that you will consider sharing some of the books, videos, documentaries, etc. that you have found valuable in your healing.

http://www.childabusesurvivor.net/reviews/submit-review/

I’m hoping this will provide a good way for the larger survivor community to contribute reviews, and suggestions, for survivors during these times when we just don’t have the ability to do so. If you know of other survivors who would like to take advantage of this feature to share their own reviews, please share this post with them. Like most things around here, this feature is an experiment, that might lead to some additional ways for others to contribute to the site beyond reviews, or may get shuttered if it doesn’t work. That’s how it goes with experiments! 😉

I’m looking forward to seeing what kinds of reviews you guys have out there!

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