News and notices from the writing trenches #39…

#224: Amazon’s new review policy. I thought I’d see more action here. Several writers have told me that they’ve lost reviews too—good legitimate reviews, not from family and friends. My lost reviews correspond to writers reviewing and independent reviewers from online reviewing sites. I guess Amazon can do what they want and the rest of the world caves. I’ll have to admit—I don’t know what I can do about it either.

One irony here occurs when Amazon asks ME to review one of my OWN BOOKS. I use...