Saturday Night Live – Tech Talk

This is perhaps the most biting sketch they have done in a long, long time.

 

Do malicious reviews actually happen?

Well, I realize that the question I posed in the title outs me as a newbie, but for the past couple of weeks I have been following a series of posts (many, many posts) by someone on one of the self-publishing forums (who and where will remain nameless in order to protect them and myself) who insists that he was the victim of malicious reviews and is angry that they have yet to be taken down off of his sales page. When I talk about malicious reviews, I am referring to the those that are obvious attack by someone (a competing author, someone who hates self-publishers) who has not read the book and is simply trying to prevent yours from selling. This got me thinking about whether or not malicious reviews actually happen, and if they do, how can spot them? Also, is there anything that can be done?

Updated my About Me section

I’ve been so busy lately that I have neglected my blog, so I decided to do some changes and really try to get back on track. The first thing I did was revamp the About Me section, especially since I it really didn’t state who I was. Here it is if you want to have a look:

Got a bad review? Well, join the club.

As every writer knows, one of the keys to success seems to be linked to reviews. People tend to flock to books with a high number of reviews while they check to see if the book they are looking at is worth their time and money. Now, I know we all think our work is a masterpiece, but unfortunately others might not agree with us. In fact, they might disagree so much that you will be smacked with a negative, one or two star review.  This is especially the case for self-published work, which sometimes contains errors that the author might have missed.

From what I have read on various message boards, it seems that some authors handle their negative reviews in a variety of ways:

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Too cute: Prince Harry wears an Angry Birds cap

Saw this on e! online and  I just had to post it. Too adorable.

Source: e! Online

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