Reviews

The giveaway is over, the lucky 100 have been given their copies. Now I wait and hope for reviews, or at least I think I want reviews.

I think everyone who creates, whether visual art, prose, poetry, or whatever, dreads and at the same time wants reviews. A good review can lead to sales, a bad review can hurt, both sales and egos.

Every time I release something creative there is that dreaded anticipation. I've just put something out there that I may have worked on for months, or perhaps days or hours, It represents me, and with it goes a piece of my soul.

I want people to enjoy my novel, or painting, or photographs. I'd very much like to make some sales. For the creative type, sales are a form of validation. Sales means people enjoy our efforts. It doesn't mean that what we've created is necessarily good or bad. The starving artist is very much a real thing. I've always modified the adage to, for every successful artist, there are thousand more equally or more talented.

So hopefully the reviews will be good, at a minimum I hope they are instructive. I think creativity can alway be improved.