Screen-capped it, put it on her twitter where she has 66k followers, and wasįlat out mean and nasty to that reader.She put a reader on blast, called them an asshole, subjected them to the harassment of her followers and fellow pissbaby authors, for a four star review.Judges for a prominent LGBTQ literature award withdrew a planned nomination for Lauren Hough’s acclaimed essay collection, “Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing,” after the author used sharp and sometimes profane language in Twitter exchanges with critics of a novel she had expressed admiration for. She bitched and moaned about a four star review. So what has Lauren Hough done that I am name and shaming her? Should have to take abuse, but negative reviews and readers refusing to beīullied into silence and submission is not abuse. They areĬlearly too juvenile, every last one of them, to be in this profession. That Lauren Hough and those just like her could really stand to learn. Leaving readers alone (and staying off Goodreads) is something Trying to control that is like trying to control Every person that reads it reads a differentīook, sees a different story. I did the best I could, released it to the I always try to learn as I go, and do better with each book, but Iĭon't see the point in losing sleep over what people say about a book I'm done If something really really gets to me, I'll whine to my long-suffering wife or I don't act like a fucking child about it. Sometimes it's a particularly unpleasant email. Those are allĬomments I've chanced upon, or had some well-meaning reader or associate share The examples above, I don't actually go out and read reviews. They'reĪllowed to say they find me an obnoxious, dumbass bitch whose books they willĪbsolutely never read and then go on on a spree one-starring everything I'veĮver written (which I would admire the dedication, b/c I have over 100 stories Tell everyone I couldn't write a good book if my life depended on it. The right to declare myself the Review Police and tell readers how they should These reviews for all to see, and mock them relentlessly. That doesn't give me the right to hop on twitter, paste Problems to be fixable, and I should just scrap it. Painted Crown was the worst book I've ever written, it had too many Sometimes people are downright mean, like the person who said The People who will only read my contemporary. My wife was never really been fond of Embrace. Thinks it's too stupid and unbelievable some of the characters have blue hair. I still don't know what that evenĪ reader has refused to read Treasure because she My all time favoriteĬriticism to this day, even though it happened at least ten years ago now, is Than a year on, is called 'stupid' and 'predictable' and 'lmao did this authorĮven try' and my personal favorite 'this book is just the author checking It sucks when you see that a book you're proud of, that you spent more ![]() I'm not going to pretend reviews can't hurt. A review should be constructive and helpful.You shouldn't say mean things and hurt the author and their sales If you don't like a book, just don't review it,.Threes now…) to books because it hurts authors. It's mean to give one and two star (and even.You shouldn't be allowed to review if you.You should never just rate a book and not review.You can't give a one star review without.The bingo cards typically include such things as: Their book with a depressing ending should totally count as a romance, you canĬount on there being yet another author who throws a temper tantrum about Much like the way you can count on there being a monthlyĪrticle that grossly misrepresents romance, or an author whining about how Since Hale, it's like a floodgate opened, and the problem just 'gift', called her at work, and so terrified this woman she withdrew entirelyįrom the internet for a time (IDK if she has returned at all, I sure as fuck A major turning point in this was Kathleen Hale, who With how authors treat readers, and the short of it is that authors treat And too much Animal Crossing: New Horizons.Īll that being said, there has been an increasing problem I mostly just write these days, and keep to my little socialĬircles. ![]() Health problems… other matters I don't feel like discussing here, have taken Years of publishing, nearly twenty of writing, a host of mental and physical ![]() These days, because I just don't have the spoons anymore, as the kids say. I consider myself retired from shenanigans I've been writing for nearly twenty years, so trust me, People off, picking fights, and generally running my mouth off whenever I feel Romance will be happy to tell you I have a long and sordid history of pissing I should know how to behave and not behave.
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