Regular readers will be familiar with my gender audits and so this time I thought I would examine reviews by publisher to get a handle on how my reviews are weighted.
Now the following list only goes back over the last 2.5 years. It lists publishers and self publishers and should give you a broad picture of the work I have reviewed. In makes no differentiation between review copies and books that I selected/bought myself, indeed it’s missing a number of books bought from TPP and Ticonderoga that languish on my TBR pile.
Publisher | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | Total |
| Hachette/Orbit/Etc | 5 | 9 | 16 | 30 |
| Wizard’s Tower | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Solaris | 4 | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| Interactive Press | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Picaro | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| ARF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| A&U | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 |
| SALT | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Shambala | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Peggy Bright | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Shane Kozycan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| UQP | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| FableCroft | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Twelfth Planet | 0 | 2 | 6 | 8 |
| Ticonderoga | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Satalyte | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Momentum | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| Endeavour | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Cloudburst | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Flipreads | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| FutureFire | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Harper Collins | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Bloomsbury | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| CSFG | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Emergent | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Patty Jansen | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| XOUM | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Rabia Gale | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Tor Rox. | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Patrick Duffy | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Gilgamesh | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Angry Robot | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| RBB | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Glenda Larke | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Math P.P. | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| CDL | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Clan Destine | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Comments
I can’t say there’s much that is surprising here, I thought that the reviewing would be heavily weighted toward Hachette etc. because the send me quite a lot books and aren’t shy about doing so.
I thought I had reviewed more Twelfth Planet Press but then I sometimes forget that I have purchased most of their catalogue and not necessarily read it all. I note too that the Twelfth Planet Press and to a lesser extent Ticonderoga’s reviews are influenced by the fact that I have been participating in the Australian Women Writers project for some time and those two presses are focussed supporters of Australian women writers. Twelfth Planet Press’ Twelve Planets Collection is a nice way to make your challenge target.
The Solaris figures are a little surprising but then I'’m a huge Rowena Cory Daniells fan and they have recently picked up Jonathan Strahan as well so maybe I shouldn’t be.
Top 5 reviewed publishers over the last 2.5 years
- Hachette etc 30
- Allen & Unwin 9
- Solaris/TPP 8
- Momentum 6
- Peggy Bright 4
If I break the table into Traditional/Medium and Small Presses(incl Self pubbed)
| Large | 45 |
| Medium | 17 |
| Small | 49 |
Note I have ranked Solaris and Momentum as medium presses.
I think there’s an even spread between small and large presses and to be honest Hachette gives me access to a number of subsidiary publishers so I am not concerned about the weight they seem to have here. Indeed they also publish a few Aussie authors in our scene.
Likewise I am not too concerned with the weighting among some of the more prolific small presses. I have a Peggy Bright title in my reading queue at the moment and I have only one more Twelfth Planet book I am reading. But I will use this as an excuse to read Angela Slatter’s and Lisa L Hannett’s collections from Ticonderoga.
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