Well, that was awkward.

I managed to sign myself off of Genrefied and onto an old Blogspot account from 2009. Happily, someone wiser than me pointed out the likely problem and was completely correct in her assumptions.

So I'm back after a rather long hiatus.


The latest news? Currently, after much radiation and chemotherapy, I am cancer-free. I am pleased and currently, I am recovering. It has not been an easy road.

I was surfing around earlier today, recovering from a couple of pages of writing and considering what to say next, when I ran across a negative review on Amazon. Weird, I know but there it was a one sta review written about somebody other than me. I looked at it for several seconds, wondering how I managed to get back to my own reviews, and then read it carefully.

Sure enough, it's a different James.

have you noticed how many one-star reviews are, well, nitpicky in the extreme? I mean on a level that is absolutely silly.

the biggest complaints seem to be that the same phrase was used more than once (in 85,000 plus words, it can happen) and that the author didn't do all that could be done with the setup.

Yeah. I can say that later part about damned near every book I've ever read. Not everyone is going to see a situation the same way that I do. Or that you do. Or that anyone does. It's the nature of the beast.

It's just that the truly negative reviews don't even try to understand that. Instead of understanding something they condescend it. When you resort to a one sentence review and it's negative you aren't even trying any longer. I can and will ignore your reviews, especially if you do the same with almost everything you review. (It sin;t that's hard to check, folks, honestly.)

Okay, that's my rant for today.

I'm back to work on THE GODLESS, book five of the Seven Forges series.

Keep smilim=ng,

Jim