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Thanks to Orion at Reviews by Jessiewave
I can't help it (okay, I probably could, but I'm new at this "author" business and this early in the game ego boosts are appreciated), complimentary reviews make my day. As it happens, they often also provide the opportunity to plug great review sites that I've visited and benefited from following.
One very good review site is Reviews by Jessiewave. Active since 2008, Reviews by Jessiewave is a huge repository of excellent, professional reviews of the M/M genre. It basically covers the definitively adult variety of M/M literature, but includes some young adult. I was honored enough to be listed on Jessiewave's site at all, but blown away when I read the review of My Life as a Myth from Orion, one of Jessie's regular contributors.
When a hopeful writer sets out to brave the world and share his/her dreams (because that's what a book is), unless he/she has the kind of ego that breaks diamonds, a negative review can be shattering. Of course, one of the first things you learn (hopefully) is that you've got to treat your book as a now-grown-up child who must stand or fall without your supervision. If someone doesn't like your book, you have to chalk it up, in the words of the old adage, to "horses for courses" and move on. Not doing so is not only rude, it's petty.
That said, that someone actually took the time to read and write positively about a book you wrote is more thrilling than being a freshman asked out by the twelfth grade man of your dreams.
So my thanks to Orion and Jessiewave for the flattering and complimentary review of My Life as a Myth. I appreciate it more than you can know.
One very good review site is Reviews by Jessiewave. Active since 2008, Reviews by Jessiewave is a huge repository of excellent, professional reviews of the M/M genre. It basically covers the definitively adult variety of M/M literature, but includes some young adult. I was honored enough to be listed on Jessiewave's site at all, but blown away when I read the review of My Life as a Myth from Orion, one of Jessie's regular contributors.
When a hopeful writer sets out to brave the world and share his/her dreams (because that's what a book is), unless he/she has the kind of ego that breaks diamonds, a negative review can be shattering. Of course, one of the first things you learn (hopefully) is that you've got to treat your book as a now-grown-up child who must stand or fall without your supervision. If someone doesn't like your book, you have to chalk it up, in the words of the old adage, to "horses for courses" and move on. Not doing so is not only rude, it's petty.
That said, that someone actually took the time to read and write positively about a book you wrote is more thrilling than being a freshman asked out by the twelfth grade man of your dreams.
So my thanks to Orion and Jessiewave for the flattering and complimentary review of My Life as a Myth. I appreciate it more than you can know.
