[closed] Splitting hairs about a bad review?

[Jonathan]

Greetings all,

So I received a 2 star review this morning which I totally understand and actually don't take personally. It stings of course, but what can you do.

She obviously read the book and it was just not her cup of tea. She seemed to have a real problem with my writing style and use of commas and gave examples of some passages that definitely annoyed the heck out of her...again totally fair.

My only problem is that in the lines she quoted from the novel she mistakenly pushed some words together for example "year back" became "yearback" and "in the" became "inthe".

My concern is that a potential reader may think these smooshed words are in the novel, which they are not. They are separated in the eBook and paperback.

I think there's a difference between hating my use of commas(fair) and making someone think there are blatant typos in the novel.

I am not asking for the review to be taken down or altered one bit, I am only asking if any librarians think it would be a good idea for me to reach out to this reviewer and simply ask them to un-smoosh the words they ran together.

Or should I just move on hoping readers won't think there are blatant typos in the novel.

I know authors are not supposed to reach out to reviewers and definitely don't want to do so...unless I can say I cleared it with a librarian first and only asking for the reviewer to correct their typos.

And of course if the answer is "don't do it and move on tiger" totally fair.

Thanks in advance for the advice.

Best,

Jonathan Latt

[Scott]

This has absolutely nothing to do with librarians. You shouldn't be worrying about typos in a user's review. Do not contact the reviewer.

[Jonathan]

Scott wrote: "This has absolutely nothing to do with librarians. You shouldn't be worrying about typos in a user's review. Do not contact the reviewer."

Okay, sorry to bother you all.

Thanks for the quick response.