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With Social Media and everyone gaining easy access to authors, it’s just a slippery slope that I think authors should not cross. Heck, Book Twitter is very quick to stand up in arms and defend the community. The book blogging community is really small. This just brings a lot of problems for the author. In this case, an author should NEVER ENGAGE with the reviewer giving a bad review of their book. And let’s face it, authors will never know who the fan favorites are without knowing what the fans are saying, right? Also, how can an author improve if they never hear any constructive criticism about their book?īut let’s face it, not all authors react well to criticisms at all. I’ve seen this over and over again, stressed out by a lot of authors and reviewers – book reviews are NOT for authors! And while I think that is true, I also think that reviews do help authors either to improve on their craft or even to use fan favorite characters in another book or series. In fact, I have written negative reviews on books by my favorite authors, so I think I am fair in my review practices. While I also write DNF to 2-star reviews on my blog, I have kept my reviews objective and centered on why I didn’t like the book. I also want to say that I don’t really post controversial reviews on my blog (to my knowledge). However, I also know of other bloggers who have been attacked and have had bad experiences with authors, their posse and their fans.

She asked me to comment on authors responding to positive book reviews, but I decided to discuss both positive and negative reviews and book reviews as a whole.īefore we get started, I want to let everyone know that I personally have not been attacked by an author before.

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Happy Monday, Wormies! Welcome to another bookish discussion! Today is special because this topic is one that was requested by an author who comments a lot on my blog! Full disclosure, I do not know the author personally and have only interacted with her through my blog and I have also never read any of the books she has written.

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