June 2020 Received

Here's the "what did you receive?" topic.

Kate is sick, so I'm stepping in to run the various picking processes. If I don't finish them tonight, they'll be done tomorrow.

Hi, I’m new to the group as of June. I don’t see any messages about being selected to review books in June. Where on the website is this announcement made.

Thank you!

>2 Rodmancat:

You should receive a message in your Profile message board, either indicating which title you won, or confirming you did not win any title for the month. In Settings, you can also specify that any such message generate an email to your private email account.

You can also look on your Early Reviewer module for the list of all months. This only displays an entry when you win a title.

There is no Site location where individual members are identified as winners or not.

>2 Rodmancat: If you click on the list of available books in the Early Reviewers Group, in the upper left there is a place to click "Books You've Won" (and also "Books Requested") That should show any books you won this month. It's also the place you can mark books as received or unreceived.

Title: Rural Voices: 15 Authors Challenge Assumptions About Small-Town America
Date Received: July 9, 2020
Method of Delivery: USPS
Sent from: Somerville, MA
Sent to: MA
Packaging method: bubble mailer
Format: Paperback advance reading copy
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Came with: bookmark for Susan Cokal books Mermaid Moon and The Kingdom of Little Wounds

Title: Zora & Me: The Summoner by Victoria Bond
Date Received: July 13, 2020
Method of Delivery: USPS
Sent from: MA
Sent to: MD
Packaging method: bubble mailer
Format: Paperback advance reading copy
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Came with: Thank you card

Title: The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline
Date Received: July 13, 2020
Method of Delivery: UPS ground
Sent from: Princeton, NJ
Sent to: Charlottesville, VA
Packaging method: bubble mailer
Format: Paperback advance reader's edition
Publisher: William Morrow
Came with: nothing

Title: The Exiles: A Novel by Christina Baker Kline
Date Received: July 15, 2020
Method of Delivery: UPS ground
Sent from: Princeton, NJ
Sent to: Boothwyn, PA
Packaging method: bubble mailer
Format: Paperback advance reader's edition
Publisher: William Morrow
Came with: nothing

Title: Beauty Mark: A Verse Novel of Marilyn Monroe byCarole Boston Weatherford
Date Received: 7-16-20
Method of Delivery: USPS Media Mail
Sent from: Somerville, MA
Sent to: Warner Robins, GA
Packaging method: Bubble mailer
Format: ARC
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Came with: Postcard newsletter

Title: High Cotton: Essays
Date Received: July 14, 2020
Method of Delivery: USPS
Sent from: Tampa, FL
Sent to: Harrisburg, PA
Packaging method: bubble mailer
Format: Paperback finished copy
Publisher: Raised Voice Press
Came with: form letter and promotional page

Title: The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline
Date Received: July 15, 2020
Method of Delivery: UPS ground
Sent from: Princeton NJ
Sent to: Goodyear AZ
Packaging method: bubble mailer
Format: Paperback advance reader's edition
Publisher: William Morrow
Came with: nothing

I have not received the last three books I supposed!y won.

Received When We Were Young and Brave by Hazel Gaynor today! UPS, bubble wrap. The book's from and back were a bit bent. Nothing came with it. Paperback ARC edition.

Title: A Life Once Dreamed by Rachel Fordham
Date Received: July 20, 2020
Method of Delivery: USPS
Sent from: Michigan
Sent to: Maine
Packaging method: Padded mailer
Format: Paperback advance reader's edition
Publisher: Revell/Baker
Came with: congratulatory card with request for review

Title: The Elements We Live By
Date Received: approx. July 20, 2020
Method of Delivery: FedEx
Sent from: Connecticut
Sent to: Illinois
Packaging method: Cardboard box
Format: Audio Book CD
Publisher: Tantor Media
Came with: Packing slip

Title: A House is a Body by Shruti Swamy
Date Received: approx. July 28, 2020
Method of Delivery: USPS
Sent from: North Carolina
Sent to: South Carolina
Packaging method: Bubble Mailer
Format: ARC Trade Paperback
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, NC.
Came with: nothing

Title: The Lives of Edie Pritchard by Larry Watson
Date Received: July 29, 2020
Method of Delivery: USPS
Sent from: Appleton, WI
Sent to: NJ
Packaging method: bubble mailer
Format: Paperback advance reading copy
Publisher: Workman Publishing Co.

Thank you!

Title: Miracle County
Date Received: July 30, 2020
Method of Delivery: USPS
Sent from: Appleton, WI
Sent to: ID
Packaging method: bubble mailer
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Came with: nothing

Title: Penance by Edward Daniel Hunt
Date Received: August 1, 2020
Method of Delivery: USPS
Sent from: Rochester, NY
Sent to: Wright City, MO
Packaging method: bubble mailer
Format: paperback
Publisher: Adelaide Books
Came with: letter from Marketing Director

I received Zora and Me: The Summoner and I'm currently reading it, but there's a mess-up in the Early Reviewers listing. Zora and Me: The Summoner is scheduled for publication this October, and that's the book I (very correctly) got. It's the third book in a trilogy:

1. Zora and Me
2. Zora and Me: The Cursed Ground
3. Zora and Me: The Summoner

Problem is, on my "Books you've won" page, Zora and Me: The Summoner correctly appear as the book I've won and correctly links to the Zora and Me: The Summoner work page BUT it shows me as having posted my review on April 29, 2011, which was when I posted my review for the first book in the trilogy.

Tim, there seems to be some kind of confusion among the titles in this trilogy. I don't have any idea of how to correct it myself; and even if I knew how, I'd be very reluctant to mess around with something that could affect every other Early Reviewer's review linkings. Can you get this corrected?

I'm going to PM you, Tim, to bring this post to your attention; but I'm posting it here to alert anyone else who's gotten this book so they're aware of possible problems with posting their reviews.

>20 CurrerBell:

I suspect this is an unintended consequence of the LT practice of ignoring everything after a colon in work titles. It's almost as though "Zora and Me" were a Series Title, but that's complicated by the fact it appears to also serve as the title of the first book in the series.

I am not familiar enough with best practices to attempt fixing it, and agree with your decision to alert LT staff.

>20 CurrerBell: Something similar happened to me a while ago on a title I won; it's something only staff can fix.

>20 CurrerBell: Thanks for alerting us to this error! We've corrected it. In the future, please feel free to contact me directly with questions about or errors found in ER.