Hey gang – in honor of the one-year anniversary, I started a contest on Goodreads for Life After Joe and would love for you to enter a free copy! Of course, if you can’t wait, you can always go ahead and buy a copy. 😉
Giveaway ends August 18, 2016.
See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.
I’ve never been more excited about anything. (I think this is just on one category, but…semantics). If Goodreads says it, it must be so.
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This applies to both my work and the work of others. As I’ve mentioned before, I will leave reviews on this blog, but will not give anything less than 4 stars on either Amazon or Goodreads. In fact, I really hate assigning anything out of 5 stars and would much prefer a 10 point system. I digress. As of this morning, I received my first 1 star review (which I knew would only be a matter of time). I shall forever wear “Simplistic and dull. DNF” as a badge of honor.
It’s interesting the variety and type of reader that exist on Amazon and Goodreads. My average on Amazon is 4.2 out of 5, while my Goodreads average is 3.57 (and that 1 star average is certainly not helping).
Meh, there is no universal book or novel that will resonate with everyone and there will always be people that feel the need to leave 1 star reviews. Onwards and upwards.
First, I read this, which led me to below:
I signed.
I read the comments.
I agree with the majority of them.
I think what was missed in my previous post about bullying is that I don’t care if you hate my book – you can think it’s trash and wonder why I wasted years of my life writing it, HOWEVER, that does not give you the right to attack me personally. For example, if you list my book (and many other books) in a category on Goodreads as ‘fuck-that-shit,’ I am going to be offended. Yes, you’re entitled to your opinion. No, my opinion is not more valid than yours or anyone else’s. However, unless you’ve read the book, why would you classify something I’ve put a lot of work into as basically worthless? In previous reviews I’ve done, any issues I’ve had with the story or characters have been just that. I would not attack and author simply because I thought their writing was poor or because of how they executed a story, nor would I do something immature and classify their book as unreadable and the author as a waste of time. Unless the material is outwardly homophobic or racist, it’s not my place to force an opinion on another author.
So, if I can help other authors get above this type of bullying and connect with the audience and readers they set out to write the book for, I’m definitely going to help.
More on this topic by people who say it better: here and here.
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