The One-Star Review Roundup
Apr. 29th, 2008 11:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lagilmanYou may have seen this going on around the blogosphere, thanks to John Scalzi's challenge -- post, embrace, and own your 1-star Amazon.com reviews.
As I said on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rachelcaine's comments, I'm not doing it, not because 1-star reviews make me forlorn and/or crazy (mostly, they make me sorry I couldn't write the book the reviewer clearly was expecting), but because there's a restraining order on me going anywhere near Amazon.com during the first few weeks of a new book's release.
Trust me. Author + new release + Amazon's insane ranking system = teh Crazy.
(most of the 1-star reviews I've gotten seem to gripe that a) nothing happens, b) I give too much detail, or c) there are too many typos. Possibly all valid complaints. The one that complained about the magic system being stupid/inaccurate, though, I put in the same batch as the "you're writing vampires wrong" letters I got for the Westin stories. Sez you! 2-star reviews tend to be more useful to the writer, as they're generally an actual review of what was liked/disliked, rather than "this sucked!")
And I seem to be spamming LJ today. I must be writing. *checks wordcount* Yep.
As I said on
rachelcaine's comments, I'm not doing it, not because 1-star reviews make me forlorn and/or crazy (mostly, they make me sorry I couldn't write the book the reviewer clearly was expecting), but because there's a restraining order on me going anywhere near Amazon.com during the first few weeks of a new book's release.Trust me. Author + new release + Amazon's insane ranking system = teh Crazy.
(most of the 1-star reviews I've gotten seem to gripe that a) nothing happens, b) I give too much detail, or c) there are too many typos. Possibly all valid complaints. The one that complained about the magic system being stupid/inaccurate, though, I put in the same batch as the "you're writing vampires wrong" letters I got for the Westin stories. Sez you! 2-star reviews tend to be more useful to the writer, as they're generally an actual review of what was liked/disliked, rather than "this sucked!")
And I seem to be spamming LJ today. I must be writing. *checks wordcount* Yep.
