NOT REVIEWS
Sorry for bringing this up once more but as time passes and nothing changes I feel I must. I am a Glaswegian who writes his novels - in particular my novels- the short stories less so, in the language of the Glasgow streets. Like Liverpool, Newcastle, Manchester indeed most big cities street language belongs to the inhabitants of that city. We know it, we understand it and apart from some gainsayers- we always have gainsayers about everything don`t we?- we love it. It`s ours because it belongs to our city . The city we love. Glasgow street talk is so creative, descriptive and hilariously, outrageously funny that it must be preserved for posterity. That is why I write the way I do. My characters speak that way. That is who my characters are!
On Amazon Author Central there are 2 statements-I refuse to call them reviews because reviews they very definitely are not- from 2 people very definitely not from my home city saying things like "unreadable" " very poor" being two of the nicer points they make or attempt to make. Well it will be of course my friend because you haven`t read the label on the tin have you? You didn`t read the book description or my author biography before offering your your utterly pointless opinion either did you? So how can you possibly say you have reviewed a book when you have absolutely no knowledge of what you are reviewing?
Long winded I know but all this always gets to me.
My point is this. These "reviews" are always the first to come up on Amazon Author Central and heaven knows where else on Amazon totally ignoring the many, excellent Amazon reviews I get frequently from sensible readers who bother to read what a book`s description tells them first before buying it.
Please if you think I am averse and being a "bit precious" about good ,constructive reviews no matter whether they like my book or not I can assure you I am not. Authors actually like that. The readers opinion is the readers opinion and they have every right to to judge either way. It`s their money that buys said book after all.
One or two good reviews on Goodeads now I see also. Many thanks for them
Sometimes I wonder whose side Author Central is on. Certainly ain`t mine
On Amazon Author Central there are 2 statements-I refuse to call them reviews because reviews they very definitely are not- from 2 people very definitely not from my home city saying things like "unreadable" " very poor" being two of the nicer points they make or attempt to make. Well it will be of course my friend because you haven`t read the label on the tin have you? You didn`t read the book description or my author biography before offering your your utterly pointless opinion either did you? So how can you possibly say you have reviewed a book when you have absolutely no knowledge of what you are reviewing?
Long winded I know but all this always gets to me.
My point is this. These "reviews" are always the first to come up on Amazon Author Central and heaven knows where else on Amazon totally ignoring the many, excellent Amazon reviews I get frequently from sensible readers who bother to read what a book`s description tells them first before buying it.
Please if you think I am averse and being a "bit precious" about good ,constructive reviews no matter whether they like my book or not I can assure you I am not. Authors actually like that. The readers opinion is the readers opinion and they have every right to to judge either way. It`s their money that buys said book after all.
One or two good reviews on Goodeads now I see also. Many thanks for them
Sometimes I wonder whose side Author Central is on. Certainly ain`t mine
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