From Book Reviews to Interviews
I very much appreciated the time and care Kev took in presenting my author interview. As he says it isn’t easy to review a book if you are acquainted with the author even if your relationship is confined to the online realm.
Originally posted on Kev's Blog:
I never properly explained why I started doing Kev’s Author Interviews. I basically just said, ‘here’s the deal’ and explained what I was going to start doing. Not once did I say why. So, here it is:
I’ m bloody crap at doing book reviews. It’s not that I can’t do them or even that I couldn’t be good at doing them. I’m just plain crap at it and don’t like doing them for the following reasons:
There are so many books that I just cannot get into. I’m not really interested in them, they are not the right genre and the authors haven’t even tried to edit them. Oh, and just because I’m a guy, it doesn’t mean I want to read smut lit in the guise of fiction and fantasy where the author thinks that (filth)sexual scenes cover up bad writing.
These kinds of books actually give self-publishing…
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