I shouldn't let it get to me...

...but I do.

The resentment some people - and it is particularly prevalent in the Uk - show writers promoting their work on Good reads still gets under my skin.

This is a site for book-lovers. Some of those book-lovers write books as well as reading them. They don't do it to make a fortune, they do it to share stories, thoughts, and images of the world.

I can only assume the snipers are all failed authors themselves who nurse a spiteful jealousy of anyone with a more generous spirit.

I have lots of reviews from readers who delighted in sharing my literary journeys; but it only takes the one naysayer to discount ten good reviews and make me wish I'd left the manuscripts in the cupboard.

Well, what's a blog for if not to have a good old moan? Perhaps, too, pessimism is a British disease!