He says:
Too bloody short! This is one of Energion Publications’ Topical Line Drives booklets, meant to introduce a topic directly by zeroing in on the necessities, but this time the abbreviated coverage left me wanting much more. Maybe that’s a good thing.
Well, we kind of expect to hear that the TLD volumes are too short!
Elgin Hushbeck has reviewed Rite of Passage for the Home and Church. Here’s a sample: Thus Brown argues for a revolutionary course of action, but one that should be music to every believer’s ears: That we treat our teenagers following the biblical pattern. Most of the book is aimed at defending this view and then…
John Byron wonders, prompted by an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Both articles refer specifically to scholarly book reviews, but book reviews by bloggers can have the same problems. I like to see some analysis in a review, along with some direction. Where might this study have done better? Where might it have…
I hope that the Energion Publications book review program, while obviously designed to help publicize our books, generates discussion on blogs regarding issues that are important to Christianity. We not only don’t have any requirement that you produce favorable reviews, we hope that people will accept books that they expect to disagree with and provide…
Blogger review copies are free books that you get in exchange for providing an honest review. There are only two requirements: 1) You do review the book and 2) You include a note that you received a free copy from us. You can request a copy by e-mailing pubs@energion.com. Please include a link to your…
Michael Gorman, Professor of Sacred Scripture and Dean of the Ecumenical Institute of Theology at St. Mary’s Seminary & University in Baltimore, Maryland, reviews and strongly recommends The Politics of Witness, the latest volume in the Areopagus Critical Christian Issues series. His comment: It’s published by a small press but will, I hope, get some…
This link, posted in 2016, but updated in September of 2017, gives some good guidelines. The thing is, most of these guidelines are, in my opinion, just common sense ethics in selling. It’s easy to forget little things like an Amazon affiliate is getting paid (not very much!), but it’s still generally good sense. But…
