BAD REVIEWS
I'm the type of author that embraces bad reviews. If you are a writer and you want to be an author, know that for a FACT there will be readers who will love your book and there will be readers who will hate your book. That is just the way it is and there is no way to see yourself out of that... well, there kind of is and it's called DON'T PUBLISH YOUR FUCKING BOOK IF YOU CAN'T HANDLE BAD REVIEWS.
I'm so sick and tired of seeing these authors, parading on Twitter and Goodreads, bitching about a 1 star or 2 star review. Grow the fuck up and eat a fucking snickers bar.
Calm the fuck down.
I often like to air out my feelings publicly but not toward bad reviews, because there is a place to air that kind of shit out and it is to your closest friends or your critique partner... NOT ON SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES.
Do you know what that will do?
it will GuaranFUCKINGtee that your book and you will get a bad rep and you will be screwed. If you decide to pull shit like that, I'd suggest breaking out that old spiral notebook and go over some pen names because you are fucked. FUUUUUUUCKED.
Do you know that there is a thing called a screen shot? yeah, someone who sees your negative bitching will PRT SC that shit and post it everywhere for people to see. Think twice before you lay those fingers on the keyboard. There is no escaping the fuckery you will cause. Even if you come to your senses and delete the bitching it will somehow show up somewhere.
And HEY! be grateful that someone actually read your damn book even if they hated it. Do you know how difficult it is in the first fucking place to get your book read by someone? Difficult as fuck.
If you paid for my book or got it free on amazon and you hated it, that is awesome as long as you read it I'm fine.
So authors who like to bitch, cut it the fuck out.
... and seriously, go eat a snickers bar. It will calm you down.
*also something I'd like to add is this is not just for Self Published authors. I've seen PLENTY of traditionally published authors lash out at bad reviews. I just don't like seeing people say it's ONLY self published authors who do this. Know your shit before you speak.
Have a great day and go read something. :)
I'm so sick and tired of seeing these authors, parading on Twitter and Goodreads, bitching about a 1 star or 2 star review. Grow the fuck up and eat a fucking snickers bar.
Calm the fuck down.
I often like to air out my feelings publicly but not toward bad reviews, because there is a place to air that kind of shit out and it is to your closest friends or your critique partner... NOT ON SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES.
Do you know what that will do?
it will GuaranFUCKINGtee that your book and you will get a bad rep and you will be screwed. If you decide to pull shit like that, I'd suggest breaking out that old spiral notebook and go over some pen names because you are fucked. FUUUUUUUCKED.
Do you know that there is a thing called a screen shot? yeah, someone who sees your negative bitching will PRT SC that shit and post it everywhere for people to see. Think twice before you lay those fingers on the keyboard. There is no escaping the fuckery you will cause. Even if you come to your senses and delete the bitching it will somehow show up somewhere.
And HEY! be grateful that someone actually read your damn book even if they hated it. Do you know how difficult it is in the first fucking place to get your book read by someone? Difficult as fuck.
If you paid for my book or got it free on amazon and you hated it, that is awesome as long as you read it I'm fine.
So authors who like to bitch, cut it the fuck out.
... and seriously, go eat a snickers bar. It will calm you down.
*also something I'd like to add is this is not just for Self Published authors. I've seen PLENTY of traditionally published authors lash out at bad reviews. I just don't like seeing people say it's ONLY self published authors who do this. Know your shit before you speak.
Have a great day and go read something. :)
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Aug 05, 2013 04:45PM
So true Richard. I have yet to publish my first fiction piece but any author who does not think they will get at least some negative reviews is just sticking their head in the sand. It is just sad that some authors feel the need to be rude to those who offer honest critique of their work and cannot be humble and professional. Very well said:)
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While I absolutely agree with you on one hand that ranting doesn't change anything and that there always will be people who don't like your writing etc. I have put my first short story out to read and had a very unplesant experience. I'm okay if people write "same old, same old" or "didn't like the story", I even get over the fact that they criticize things "why did he do that" when there is a lengthy paragraph explaining it in the story. I like and dislike stories like everybody else. And when I dislike them, I skim, too, and miss things.
I actually like reviews that tell me, what worked for the reader and what didn't.
But I made one very unplesant experience. One review accusses me of "veiled Neo-Nazism" just because I used the name of an ocean cruiser in 1955 that was built by Germans (but 1955 French). And yes, I ranted about that on my fb page once - I needed someone to talk about it and someone who happens to understand and thankfully got some support from a very talented writer who had read my short.
So yes, I mostly agree...but there comes a time you need to open your mouth, too - or in this case - just write it on fb.
It doesn't matter if the author is established, new, independent, dead, signed up with a publishing house, it just doesn't matter who the author is because they are not writing the reviews nor controlling who is writing the reviews.Who is writing the reviews? Anyone who wants to write a review is writing reviews. Once upon a time truly qualified people wrote reviews but the waiting time to get reviewed could well be long after the author died.
Now the simple act of putting a book on a want to read list counts as a review of the book. That seems to be the minimum requirement, nothing.
You don't need to read the book to review it. Once upon a time a reviewer would have been fired from their job for reviewing books without reading them.
This means not everything that is counted as a review is a review. A slap on the back feels good but it is not a review.
Since everyone in the world regardless of age, maturity, sincerity, capabilities, knowledge of, in fact the only requirement is to be on line, is encouraged to "rate" their experiences with consumer products which includes books, the end result will be a collection of views ranging from washing machines to corporation T shirts with books somewhere in the middle of that daily outpouring of words of advice for fellow consumers.
If people had to actually write a review long hand and mail it in, there would be a lot less reviews. But it is done to minimize the activity required so that most reviews are impressionist dabs on a great big canvass that may never be finished. To hold up one little dab and put it under a microscope might be interesting but will never show the whole picture.
Look up a few good classics with 10 million reviews and you will find 1 star reviews from people struggling to understand what they tried to read and willing to put it out as a review.
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