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The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
As an eclectic, I am bounded by a self-imposed code of ethics to discuss every aspect of my voyage into the world of publishing. So it was with some trepidation that I waited for my thirteenth review. It wasn't wasted.
Coming off the heels of twelve really nice reviews, and a very detailed and comprehensive twelfth four-star review, I received the following one-star review from BlinkytheGhost on Amazon.com:
I really wanted to like this book, but it was not worth the money! With a long and somewhat interesting beginning. Then nothing happens for a long time. Suddenly the writer turns into Tom Clancey. Things happen with no lead up or reason. Long parts about eating and changing clothes, even characters travelling for long periods. As a book about UFOs for a main plot device. It does not deliver. Just plain bad writing. I can not be the only person that thinks so.
How appropriate that my first bad review was number thirteen, from someone called "BlinkytheGhost," one week before Halloween.
The Eclectic always likes to make lemonade from lemons, so I say to Blinky, "Thank you for calling me Tom Clancy!"
I wonder how other authors have fared on their "thirteenth" review.
Coming off the heels of twelve really nice reviews, and a very detailed and comprehensive twelfth four-star review, I received the following one-star review from BlinkytheGhost on Amazon.com:
I really wanted to like this book, but it was not worth the money! With a long and somewhat interesting beginning. Then nothing happens for a long time. Suddenly the writer turns into Tom Clancey. Things happen with no lead up or reason. Long parts about eating and changing clothes, even characters travelling for long periods. As a book about UFOs for a main plot device. It does not deliver. Just plain bad writing. I can not be the only person that thinks so.
How appropriate that my first bad review was number thirteen, from someone called "BlinkytheGhost," one week before Halloween.
The Eclectic always likes to make lemonade from lemons, so I say to Blinky, "Thank you for calling me Tom Clancy!"
I wonder how other authors have fared on their "thirteenth" review.
The Eclectic
I've decided to call my Goodreads Author blog, "The Eclectic." As you get to know me, you will find that I have lived my life as an eclectic, enjoy a wide range of interests from Art to Zoology and ca
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