Promote What You Love Instead of Bashing What You Hate

This week, I read a blog post from a fellow author. Let me preface this by saying I don't know this author, but because she's a writer, she falls under the umbrella of "one of my fellow authors," so I was understandably outraged when I read that she had decided not to release her book because of some online drama.

When you're a writer, you're setting yourself up for criticism. There is absolutely no way to avoid it. Not everyone is going to like your book. That's a fact and it's something I te...