Rebecca Espinoza's Blog
October 29, 2013
Jinxed is live and FREE!
Jinxed, my Binds novella just went live. It'll be free for the first 24 hours, so if you've read Binds, or think you might in the future, make sure to go pick it up! Please, please, please don't pay for it, get it while it's free! Oh, if you haven't read Binds (and maybe even if you have), it probably won't make much sense, just a warning.
And...once again, thank you for reading! Whether you love it or hate it, I'll be grateful that you gave it a chance.
http://www.amazon.com/Jinxed-A-Binds-...
And...once again, thank you for reading! Whether you love it or hate it, I'll be grateful that you gave it a chance.
http://www.amazon.com/Jinxed-A-Binds-...
July 3, 2013
Author/Reviewer Shaming
Here’s something that I’m going to let you all in on: I’m not the best writer ever. Really, I’m not. I’m not saying it for pity or with the same intentions that a teenage girl has when she tells all her friends she’s ugly, just so that they can tell her she’s not. It’s a fact. I’ve read so many books, great books at that, that I know it to be a true statement and it’s for this reason that I don’t get mad when someone gives me a bad review or low rating, I can understand where they’re coming from. Does it hurt? I’d be lying if I said no, but I counter that with the knowledge that the person read my stuff and, there’s no way I can be offended by their opinion, they took the time to give it.
Where am I going with this? Well, yep, I wrote a book and thought that nothing would change, as far as my normal routine. I was a reviewer first, and I figured I’d just keep on reviewing here on Goodreads and writing on the side and life would just go on. Well…it didn’t. You see, there’s something I didn’t figure on happening when idealistically making my way through the everyday workings of my humdrum existence. Authors can get really mad about what’s said about their work and some of them (the mentally imbalanced ones) will retaliate against a bad review, bad status update, or, in my case, joke about their shit cover amongst reviewer friends.
Yes, this happened to me. I pissed one of them off when a couple of my friends here on this site were joking about one of their covers and I threw my two cents in…what can I say, it was a really, really, bad cover. The author of this book with the craptastic cover took major offense to what I said and since she couldn’t do anything to retaliate against the other reviewers, she focused all of her anger on me. She sent her minions after me by commenting on my book and even having them leave horrible reviews over here and at Amazon. I didn’t say anything about it, because I wanted it to just blow over, but this author persisted, even marking my book on her TBR shelf (to intimidate? I don’t know, I think she’s looney). Thankfully, the GRs and Amazon gods must have figured out what was going on because they removed the fake bad reviews, but still, I’d be lying if I said it didn’t shake me at the time.
So, for the last couple of months, since this happened, I have been holding back on being honest over here. I haven’t reviewed most of the books I’ve read and worried that something like this could happen again, but you know what? I’m tired of it. I actually want to thank the crazy author for what she did because I figure, now I know the worst of what can happen and I’m deciding to not care. I’m deciding to just tell the truth and the hell with the consequences. To any other psycho author who wants to get back at me for telling the truth, I say BRING IT. Bad reviews aren’t the end of the world and I’m tired of hiding. What I’m really trying to say is don’t let others tell you what you can and can’t say or do. I won’t. Not anymore.
Where am I going with this? Well, yep, I wrote a book and thought that nothing would change, as far as my normal routine. I was a reviewer first, and I figured I’d just keep on reviewing here on Goodreads and writing on the side and life would just go on. Well…it didn’t. You see, there’s something I didn’t figure on happening when idealistically making my way through the everyday workings of my humdrum existence. Authors can get really mad about what’s said about their work and some of them (the mentally imbalanced ones) will retaliate against a bad review, bad status update, or, in my case, joke about their shit cover amongst reviewer friends.
Yes, this happened to me. I pissed one of them off when a couple of my friends here on this site were joking about one of their covers and I threw my two cents in…what can I say, it was a really, really, bad cover. The author of this book with the craptastic cover took major offense to what I said and since she couldn’t do anything to retaliate against the other reviewers, she focused all of her anger on me. She sent her minions after me by commenting on my book and even having them leave horrible reviews over here and at Amazon. I didn’t say anything about it, because I wanted it to just blow over, but this author persisted, even marking my book on her TBR shelf (to intimidate? I don’t know, I think she’s looney). Thankfully, the GRs and Amazon gods must have figured out what was going on because they removed the fake bad reviews, but still, I’d be lying if I said it didn’t shake me at the time.
So, for the last couple of months, since this happened, I have been holding back on being honest over here. I haven’t reviewed most of the books I’ve read and worried that something like this could happen again, but you know what? I’m tired of it. I actually want to thank the crazy author for what she did because I figure, now I know the worst of what can happen and I’m deciding to not care. I’m deciding to just tell the truth and the hell with the consequences. To any other psycho author who wants to get back at me for telling the truth, I say BRING IT. Bad reviews aren’t the end of the world and I’m tired of hiding. What I’m really trying to say is don’t let others tell you what you can and can’t say or do. I won’t. Not anymore.
May 18, 2013
Meet Jinx
Jinxed, the Binds Novella, has a cover! Meet Alberto Jenkins! I hope everyone will love his story when it comes out in June!
May 9, 2013
Binds is on sale!
From now until Monday, Binds is only $1.99 at Amazon! http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00C...
April 3, 2013
Binds is LIVE!
Binds is live on Amazon for Kindle! Paperbacks should be available on Monday! Thank you all of my friends for your support!! http://www.amazon.com/Binds-Series-eb...
March 15, 2013
Teasers
I've been posting teasers every couple of days on my facebook page, if anyone wants to check them out. Please feel free to like my page! www.facebook.com/rebeccanespinoza
Also, there's a teaser over here at The Indie Bookshelf. http://theindiebookshelf.blogspot.com...
Hope you like them! :0)
Also, there's a teaser over here at The Indie Bookshelf. http://theindiebookshelf.blogspot.com...
Hope you like them! :0)
