Contact Spike

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SpikeMagazine.com is a website about books, culture and ideas. Spike has been online in various forms since 1996. Thanks to a small army of contributors over the last 11 years, Spike has hundreds of book reviews, interviews, music reviews and features with writers, artists and musicians.

About Spike’s Editor
SpikeMagazine.com is edited by me, Chris Mitchell. I am a British writer and web designer currently based in Bangkok, Thailand. Scuba diving is my big passion (hence why I’m living in Thailand) and I am a Field Editor for Scuba Diver AustralAsia magazine and a regular contributor to Asian Diver magazine.

I edit SpikeMagazine.com in my spare time and travel frequently, so while I love getting email, I am not so good at responding to it unless it’s urgent. Please don’t expect a super quick reply to any correspondence. Sorry if this sounds rude, but I simply do not have time to respond to all the email I receive.

Sending Books For Review
I am always interested in hearing about new books from both book publicists and authors directly. The Thai postal service is efficient, so besides the extra postage, sending books to me here in Thailand is not a problem. Please email me using the form below for my postal address and let me know what you’d like to send to ensure it’s something I am interested in seeing for Spike.

Please note I do not review any of the following: children or young adult books, mass fiction (fantasy/crime/thrillers etc), celebrity, sports, cookery or self help. Besides those categories, I’m pretty much open to anything.

If you take a look around the site at the sort of authors that have been reviewed and interviewed, you can get an idea of where Spike’s interests lie. I am personally fond of history (especially Asian history), biography, art, architecture, technology, politics, current affairs, graphic novels, contemporary fiction and anything to do with pop music.

You can get in touch through the form below. You can leave comments on specific articles through the comments box at the end of each article. You can see the complete list of Spike contributors and their individual contact details on the Contributors page.

Contacting Authors
Please don’t email me asking for specific authors’ email addresses. If they are not already publicly available, then it means the author wishes to maintain their privacy.

If you’re really desperate to get in contact with an author, write to their publisher asking if they will forward a letter to them. Invariably the publisher will agree. Then send your letter care of the publisher. You’d be surprised how many authors respond personally to intelligent enquiries. Most publishers have their own websites these days, so you can also try emailing the publisher and finding the relevant publicist or editor who looks after the author you wish to contact.

Posted on March 30th, 2007.

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