Did you just receive a bad book review?
Some People "LOVE" my paranormal book Paradox – The Angels Are Here, while others don't. And I for one think that is a good thing. The world would be a very boring place if we all liked the same things.
Now – what do I do if I get a bad review. Easy, I pick a really popular Author on Amazon and go read their bad reviews. This reinforces in me that even the greats get bad reviews from time to time and they are still doing GREAT! They kept on writing and became even more successful Authors.
John Locke says something like – Write for the people who love your book, not for the ones that don't. I for one think that is great advice! And the last I heard, John is going GREAT with his 99c ebooks on Amazon. He is one of Amazon's all time best sellers week after week. Go check out John's reviews for his books! And you will see what I mean. The man, no matter how popular and successful he is still gets some really BAD reviews.
I'm a huge John Locke fan but I have never read any of his Donovan Creed novels. And probably never will – but he wont care because he has a host of loyal fans that will continue to buy every book he publishes. However, I swear by his $2.99 ebook – How I Sold 1 Million eBooks in 5 Months!
When John talks – I listen! Read his book, it will be the best $2.99 you ever spent on a book. If you have a friend who is an indie author or who is thinking about becoming one – buy it for them. They will thank you for it!
So a bad review to me just means, OK, we have different tastes in books. No big deal. Some prefer chocolate or strawberry icecream, while I prefer vanilla!
My advice is, chin up and keep writing! Because there are people out there that are going to LOVE your book.
Patti Roberts – Author of the book Paradox – The Angels Are Here.
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I did have someone moan about the science in my science fiction book. She probably complains about the nuts in peanut M&Ms too! Thanks for the tip on keeping things in perspective.
thanks for the great Article Patti! Really morale boosting although I didn't get much of reviews.. You know one of the bad reviews I had which I still recall was on one of my poems posted on a a website called "Elite-skills.com" I wrote a piece and shared it and the first comment was "Who the hell told you that we want to read about you?"
Despite this is a bit rude.. But you know.. I kept that post, just for the sake of reminding myself that in life we have to encounter such situations!
And you know what.. You just inspired me to write something :)
Constructive comments are good because they help us to develop, but plain rudeness is just people trying to get off on putting someone down. People who are deliberately rude or who make really dumb comments are fair game to receive rude comments in return.
I am very glad to hear you say that Tarek! There are a lot of very rude people out there who obviously think that their opinion is somehow important to the rest of us. Some people I think like playing God! I agree Marie, constructive criticism is one thing, there is something very valuable that can be learned from that. Some criticism though is just plain nasty and the only thing that can be learned from is it that the person responsible for saying it isn't a very nice person. Or perhaps they have nothing better to do? I say be constructive not destructive!
Hi Patti,Just wanted to share with you the inspiration you bought me :) thanks
http://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_...
Tarek wrote: "Hi Patti,Just wanted to share with you the inspiration you bought me :) thanks
http://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_..."
that is so cool, i will go look at it now :)))
