Hello,

I've just had my medieval Chinese historical fantasy novel, Dream of the Dragon Pool - A Daoist Quest, published by a NYC literary press. I am a scholar of medieval Chinese history and religion (40 yrs.) turned fiction writer (20 yrs.). I would love to have my book reviewed here and could send a copy in return for a postal address. My background, samples of my writing, and the great reviews I've been getting are all available on my author's website, which is accessible at www.aadalia.com.

Thanks for your consideration.

Best Wishes,

Albert A. Dalia

Mr. Dalia: (And to anyone else reading this who has written a book they wish the club would offer.) The SFBC is willing to consider any book in our genre published by an established publisher, though we do not read books from vanity or subsidy publishers. Please have your publisher send whatever materials are available (a finished book is fine in this case, but we generally prefer to see books in copyedited manuscript or page proof form four to six months before they are published), along with a cover letter detailing the book's publication history (date, formats, etc.) and any other information we may find useful (promotion plans, author tour, etc.) to me at the address below. We are only interested in fiction in our genres -- SF, genre fantasy and supernatural horror -- with very rare excursions into non-fiction closely related to those core fields. We do not read New Age or UFO books, or other genres of fiction.

We see thousands of books a year, and accept only a few hundred for the club; we also generally only respond about books that we are interested in making an offer for.