Any author that believes every one of their story reviews
will be positively glowing… is totally delusional! Every writer gets their share of bad reviews,
Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and even well-loved Nora Roberts have gotten
terrible reviews over the years. How
have these famous authors learned to deal with someone trashing a story they
have worked so very long and hard on? Ignore it? Have a good chuckle then get
back to work? Track down the reviewers
IP address and upload a computer virus (I’m just joking)
The anonymity of the internet also makes people bolder, speak louder and say things that the probably wouldn’t say if they were standing in public. The way I look at is there are 500,000- maybe a 1,000,000 books in a bookstore (depending if it’s brick/mortar or online.) Not every customer is going to love every one of those books, plain and simple. That’s the beauty of there being a vast number of different genre’s and topics. We don’t all like the same stuff.
Before you chose to attempt to shred someone’s hard work,
just stop and think for a moment. If you
hated it from the first pages, then why the hell did you continue to read? Self-torture?
Was it fuel for your fire to back your harsh words? Is your goal to really attempt to sway other
readers away from a book, like they are mindless sheep and can’t form an opinion
of their own? Or last, are you a failed author that is so upset at the literary
world that you review all stories with disdain and contempt?
I write mostly erotic gay fiction. It’s not Pulitzer Prize material, nor is that
my goal! (LOL) My stories are fun and
sexy, usually deal with coming out or opening up with new sexuality, they are
light hearted and a little quirky. If
that’s not up your alley, guess what…you have about a million other books to
choose from!
My mother taught my siblings and me a very important life
lesson that I think a lot of people haven’t learned: Praise in public, criticize
in private.
Happy Reading!!
