Hey, I'm new at this and reviews are exciting. Well, affirming reviews are exciting. Bad reviews are exciting too, but not in a good way. My books don't have many reviews yet, but almost all of them are great. It feels good.
But one of my books has some less than stellar reviews - and rave reviews as well. Both ends of the scale.
The good review says that they appreciate how I broke some norms and rules with my story telling. The bad reviews say the same thing, except that they hated it. In one case the review liked the story and the rules didn't matter. In the other case, it was the fact that the rules were broken that bothered them. There's only one way to craft a story according to some.
However, the bad reviews also complained about simple editing mistakes. That's valid. I need to fix that. And they questioned a factual statement about anatomy. I need to fix that. So I went back to the manuscript to look for my mistakes. I did find one or two spelling errors that had been missed. I didn't pick up on any dropped words, but the review said that simple spelling errors were rife. Maybe I still have some places where I meant 'that' but the text says 'hat'. My typing does tend to drop the t in 'the' and come out 'he' more often than I'd like. That's a fair criticism too (if you notice those as you read my books, send me a note and I'll fix them right away). I think that maybe the reviewer had a very early edition and I had already gone through a few rounds of corrections, and whatever it was that they were seeing was already taken care of. And that anatomy thing, well, I reworded that to make it more clear that I did understand that part, but the language might have confused that in one place.
I want to know about those things. But there's more to it...
Published on
September 20, 2018 07:39
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