REVIEWS
Ah, review time!
Back when I wrote STATE OF DECAY (under the name James Knapp), which was my first novel ever published, one early reviewer absolutely panned it on a relatively high-profile site about a month before it came out. It was the first review I ever received for anything I’d ever written, and there it was, by itself, the first link that popped up whenever anyone searched for my book, for a full month before the public at large got their hands on it. Once more reviews started to come out, I realized that a lot of reviewers actually really liked it, and STATE OF DECAY was eventually nominated for the Philip K Dick Award and also the Compton Crook Award (which it won), but for that month, as a fledgling author alone with that review, I was devastated. I’ve learned over the years to take reviews (even bad ones) in stride, but man, that first one stung.
Early reviews for THE BURN ZONE, I’m pleased to say, have been fantastic so far and my smile comes with a sigh of relief. Not that I expected it to do poorly, but putting yourself out there can be nerve wracking. I see bad reviews as inevitable, all authors get them and I don’t obsess over them anymore, but still…obviously you want most of them to be good. The general tone I’m picking up is that so far people are really digging what they’ve read, and so I’m pretty psyched.. Fingers crossed that this is a sign of things to come.
Here’s the latest batch, if you’re interested:
And of course, the buzz on Goodreads
