Knowing your readers is the most important thing for you – if you are a writer

Many of us writers try our best to produce high level works. We labour on character development, Scene development, dialogue and setting description through multiple drafts. We set all of these to a plot that aims to compel and enthral our readers.

Any historical novel, mystery or no mystery, requires extensive research. And for a significant number of writers, there is also a theme in the work, a message, perhaps even characters, that carry personal meaning.

Yet if you are writing a book for a commercial purpose, you have to send it out there and know that there is no possible way it will have a universal appeal or it will be universally liked. I personally feel writers are sensitive people who must grow thick skins when their books are in the market for sale.

Our reaction to reviews on Amazon and Goodreads is a kind of litmus test. While there are a few readers’ reviews that made me grumble, but largely I am grateful for the experience of learning what people think. To me taking some slaps on Amazon is a better alternative than refusing to read any reviews as a rigid person, determined not to listen to any criticism.

And so, as my first novel, THE JOB CHARNOCK RIDDLE receives every new review on Amazon or on Goodreads, I want to say ‘thank you’ to the readers who’ve taken the time to do this – think of a response, write it, and upload it on Amazon or on Goodreads

The two latest reviews of my thriller THE JOB CHARNOCK RIDDLE are also interesting like most of the other reviews since the book was published by Rumour India in January 2016; and I’m grateful for each one of them! Let me share the new two reviews as I have already talked about the previous ones in my other article.

5.0 out of 5 stars THE JOB CHARNOCK RIDDLE, By  Mr Indrajit Chatterjee, March 2016

Welcome ‘The Dan Brown Of India’

‘An intriguing premise building into a scorching crescendo of a thriller, The Job Charnock Riddle is an extremely engaging spellbinder that took me in a whirlwind tour through varied vistas, leaving one grasping for breath, yet eagerly wanting to leap from one page to the next.

Interspersed with lyrical prose, local flavours and impeccable historical research, Victor Ghoshe delights the readers by the unorthodox and unconventional perspective of what is sometimes deemed as apparently known scenarios/facts. The author has the uncanny ability of revealing the subsequent plot in advance without losing the undivided attention of the reader.

This stallion is new in the thriller field, but is sure to win many a derby in the years to come.

5.0 out of 5 stars THE JOB CHARNOCK RIDDLE, By  Ms Tumpa Roy, March 2016

I was so much into the story – I became a part of the team to solve the riddle and find the treasure

‘After a long time I have finished reading a novel so quickly because it is such an unputdownable book. The Job Charnock Riddle by Victor Ghoshe has an amazing blend of facts & fiction. While reading it, I also became a part of the team to solve the riddle and find the treasure.

Thanks to Victor Ghoshe for implanting the curiosity in my mind to know more about our own city Kolkata. The author’s note section in the book is of a real help for people like me who are interested in history.

I feel like visiting all the churches, graveyards & off course the forts mentioned in the book. Looking forward to read some more historical fictions from Ghoshe’.

To people like Indrajit Chatterjee and Tumpa Roy I want to say – keep reading! Not just my novels, but as many as you have time for, and keep sharing…

Victor Ghoshe

6.4.16