Why I Review *and* Write

The blog recently received two negative comments from the same person re my role as both a writer and reviewer of IR romance, which was awesome, in that they reminded me that I had been meaning to write a post about why I both review and write interrracial romance novels. First the comments:

There was this one on my B- review of MERRY CHRISTMAS, BABY by Monica Jackson:

Isn't this a conflict of interest? How can you present that you have a professional review site but then you're pimping your...