Hellenistai.com will be focused on media reviews of relevance to the Hellenic polytheist community (recon or otherwise). There are a lot of books out there of varying quality and sometimes people just don’t know where to start — there are also lots of other media items, including (but not limited to) films, music, and games, that may be of interest to the Hellenic community, also of varying quality, and you may want to read a review first before picking them up or checking them out for yourself.
If you wish to submit a review, please make sure it meets the following criteria first:
- The piece shows that the writer (you) can demonstrate an adequate knowledge of the sometimes-subtle (sometimes strong) differences between those who identify their practises as “recon” versus “NeoPagan”, if such a knowledge is relevant to the review.
- The piece lists title and publishing/release year as well as author(s) (books), artist or band-name (music album), director(s) (film), design company (game), and ISBN (book); at the top of the review. If you do not know where these items are listed, feel free to ask — I’ve made diagrams just in case. Include an image of the item reviewed when possible (this can even just be a link to the image on Amazon or bn.com, etc…).
- The piece is entirely your own, original work. Don’t just copy something off of amazon, not even if you wrote it (technically, Amazon.com reviews become property of Amazon). Copyright law allows for some excerpts or quoting of works for the purposes of review, but if I feel your quote may be too long, I may edit it down.
- You can display a healthy sense of humour, when appropriate. ;-p
- You will not be allowed to submit reviews of material you have written or performed on (that’s not only tacky, but if this were the radio, it would constitute payola and thus be finable by the FCC), nor will you be allowed to review material by people whom you consider personal friends due to the potential of bias tainting the quality of the review (acquaintances, on the other hand, are fine) or at least creating that impression on readers.
If you wish to become a regular contributor, please keep in mind the following:
- Regular contributor gigs are unpaid until further notice. But then again, so are BA Anthologies, and they get all sorts of contributions.
- You will be asked to submit no fewer than one review a month. A minimum of one review per contributor a month should be a book (until further notice), unless you clear it with me first.
- You will at least be strongly urged to promote Hellenistai.com as a resource whenever possible.
Regular contributors will be listed on the Contributors page with a short bio-paragraph and (if you like) a photo.
Feel free to send all inquiries and submissions to admin@hellenistai.com
