Bio

Launched in March 2012, Adventures With Words is a blog by Surrey-based bloggers and Podcasters, Rob and Kate. They share their love of books across a number of genres, along with reviews of comics, film, TV, theatre and music. They also do a weekly audio podcast alongside a monthly Young Adult edition. Blog posts and podcasts are produced by Rob Chilver and Kate Neilan. Rob is Marketing Manager at Headline and is the web wizard and editor of the Adventures with Words weekly podcast. He's a big fan of James Bond and thrillers as well as American and post-colonial literature, which he studied at UEA and the University of Kent. Kate is a former secondary school teacher, who recently joined Penguin Random House, Vintage Books as their Marketing Assistant. Of course, her views are all her own. She reads widely, but loves literary fiction, Scandi-crime, good quality sci-fi and fantasy and young adult fiction. She studied English Lit at Durham, where she wrote her dissertation on the changing portrayal of girls and women in Children's Fiction. When she's not reading, she loves art, films and cult series like Buffy and Smallville. Entries in the Adventures With Words blog concentrate on categories such as Literary Fiction, Young Adult, Thrillers, particularly police procedurals and espionnage, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy, War Novels and Graphic Novels. PR opportunities include news, reviews and interviews related to arts, especially the literature categories listed above. According to their review policy, 'if we request a book from a publisher, we will read and review it. If we receive unsolicited review copies, we will read and review these if we have time. We can't always guarantee a time scale, as we both work full time, but if we agree one with you, we will stick to it. We will not review anything which has been self-published. Finally, we can't guarantee that we'll enjoy the book, but we will provide a fair, honest opinion, whether we have receive the book as a review copy or bought it ourselves'. The team can be reached via email or their social media platforms where they are active.