Sentences with phrase «authors bad reviews»

Recently, though, I've started avoiding the site, because I can't bring myself to give self - published authors bad reviews.

It's a sad state of affairs, and I can only hope that the self - published authors who are giving other authors bad reviews will eventually learn that readers usually don't trust books that get nothing but perfect reviews, and that, since their sales ranking on Amazon, at least, is very low, they're not selling any books anyway and they'll stop trying to be authors.

That is then coupled with an attitude that can be found on the Kindle author boards, which says that anyone giving a self - published author a bad review is «jealous» — or in extreme cases that bad reviews are obviously the work of the evil publishers, trying to knock the competition, and that the last thing you should do is pay attention to those nit - pickers who point out problems with your work.

Not exact matches

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, 10/11: «Despite the authors» efforts to blacken Cohen and his unit, the squad does not come off all that badly.

Now in his third year, Chowell - Puente has been listed as first author on four technical reports, two peer - reviewed publications, and the book chapter «Worst Case Scenarios and Epidemics,» released last month in Bioterrorism: Mathematical and Modeling Approaches in Homeland Security.

If there's significant variation within both user and critic reviews, it's not necessarily bad for sales, the authors discovered.

Reviewing a wide range of evidence across many domains of life, the authors found that «bad emotions, bad parents, and bad feedback have more impact than good ones, and bad information is processed more thoroughly than good.

... as evidenced by bad films, war crimes, hate crimes, bigotry, politics, and general bold - faced hatred by certain authors of certain movie review web sites.

Every day I see authors complain that their expensive review copies are immediately sold on Amazon as «new» and they get no review, or worse, a one - sentence one - star.

There's a reason experienced, multi-published authors say that receiving bad reviews is a rite of passage.

If I'm going to be an author, if I'm going to put my stuff out there, I have to expect both good and bad reviews.

Amazon removes reviews for a number of reasons that can include when an author writes a bad review of a «competitor's» book.

But as you said, even bad reviews can help us as authors, so we shouldn't get too hung up on their negative affects.

In the excitement of getting the written word published, new authors sometimes don't edit their book, and if they do work hard to get people to buy the book, they end up getting bad reviews because of the lack of editing.

It wasn't long before authors were accused of also buying bad reviews of «competitors»» books.

You've obviously never heard about the meltdowns Ayelet Waldman and Emily Giffin (both traditionally published, very successful authors) have had online over bad reviews (although Ayelet melts down pretty regularly).

I used to stress about bad reviews, my ego throbbing like a bee sting, but then I read something by Indie author John Locke (who set the record for eBook sales and is starting to turn «traditional publishing» into a bad word) that completely changed the game:

While a lot of reviewers write to help themselves remember what they read or to tell other readers about the book (good or bad), the book reviews that help indie authors are the ones posted where readers will ultimately make their purchasing decision — or where the readers go for trusted opinions.

Good book or bad book, what a paid review buys authors is respectful treatment and consideration.

This * should * prevent a lot of bad reviews that many authors get with their Kindle book.

I tend to stick to books I know I will probably have a chance of enjoying, since it isn't really fair to an author to get something you know you probably won't like, and then being proven correct and leaving a bad review.

Avoid degrading or verbally abusing readers who give your book bad reviews or leave negative comments — it's not worth the trouble, and may actually end up hurting you and your author brand since the public can see your responses.

When an author is so afraid of getting a bad review, it leaves us wondering why they think, or thought, they were ready for publication to begin with.

Especially when it comes to formatting, with authors ending up with horrible interiors, getting bad reviews, or losing valuable readers forever.

But good things come from bad reviews — the author might become a better writer because of it, or someone else might see the review and say, «This reviewer doesn't like werewolf stories, but I love them!»

Part of this is because I try not to read books I don't think I will like, and part of it is because as an author myself, I know that bad reviews hurt.

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Literary feuds are entertaining: famous and not - so - famous authors holding grudges, slinging insults, or sabotaging one another with bad reviews (both anonymous and not).

Of course paying for consumer reviews is bad practice, but we at Self - Publishing Review offer professional, starred reviews for self - published and indie books at a reasonable rate (from $ 59) and this gets the author a well - written editorial review that they can use on their author profile on Amazon, B&N and Smashwords, for exReview offer professional, starred reviews for self - published and indie books at a reasonable rate (from $ 59) and this gets the author a well - written editorial review that they can use on their author profile on Amazon, B&N and Smashwords, for exreview that they can use on their author profile on Amazon, B&N and Smashwords, for example.

With its claims that it was a reader - centric site and not a site for authors — coupled with the admittedly bad behavior of a few authors — Amazon - owned Goodreads became a no man's land of review traffic for a while.

You're arguing that authors are too soft skinnned to take a bad review yet, you whine about others commenting about how you review.

The author's review of the app includes the good and the bad, of course.

And while much of this might seem like nothing more than petty playground behavior between children who honestly do not have a clear good guy or bad guy, keep in mind that several ebook retailers incorporate the Goodreads» API into their sales pages, effectively posting book reviews that many in the Goodreads community knew to be false, and nothing more than an act of revenge against an author; real - world sales decisions have been made by consumers based on these reviews.

Kelly is even claiming that GoodReads is sexist because the site does not do enough to protect women from indie authors shilling their books or authors who have a problem with a bad review.

Sites that allowed authors to purchase blocks of reviews by the hundreds or even thousands gave consumers a legitimate reason to be mistrustful of any reviews, and the case of bad behavior painting all indie authors with the same brush was all to... [Read more...]

There are several hilarious examples of authors behaving badly in response to a negative review.

From reading books with tons of mistakes to watching self - published authors explode at reviewers who gave them bad reviews, you could say I had only seen the ugly side of self - publishing.

I've met some really nice indie authors and I am open to review indie books, but indeed there are also some who just approach bloggers the wrong way and I really don't like when authors approach me on social media if I don't know them, it leaves me with a bad taste and I likely won't review their book.

While it's easy as an indie (or ANY) author to look at some callous bad reviews and want to spout off, the professional response is to keep your mouth shut even in the face of an unjust, unfounded review (yes, this is something I've had to learn!).

It's not that I do not want to help indie authors (hell, I have a great friendship with many indie authors whose books I've reviewed), but I have had some bad experiences because of negative reviews, so now I'm much more careful when approached by one.

Presumably the $ 10 additional fee is their service fee (ie, profit), but knowing what I know about the 50 - word «reviews» coming out of Kirkus Discoveries (that's $ 7 a word, in case you're calculating), I wonder if that publisher is coming to the same conclusion their authors are coming to — that paying $ 350 for a bad review kind of... sucks.

That's why authors freak out and respond irrationally to bad or even merely lukewarm reviews.

It can mean, unfortunately, that news of bad reviews or harsh criticisms are more likely to gain traction than glowing praise, but if authors remember the adage, «There's no such thing as bad publicity,» it can at least soften the blow delivered by a spiteful or overly negative review.

The thing is, I have never seen any evidence that an author goes after a reader for a bad review.

Are these individuals who post this sort of thing under «reviews» on Goodreads correct in saying the author is a «badly behaving author» because they stated that this was inappropriate and reported it to Goodreads staff, who did nothing about it?

The current system they employ of letting the market decide only seems to result in early adopters getting stung with poor eBooks, and in authors simply redistributing their books once they get a bad review.

Sounds as if the person you encountered wasn't a troll but a member of the author's «street team» who was defending the author against a bad review.

I've had days where a single bad review comes in on one of my books and then bam, I look and see a fellow Indie author announcing they just hit the NYT Bestseller list, and suddenly my whole writing day is wrecked.

Although there are no golden rules that says you must follow a formal book structure, a sloppy (amateur) book design will reflect poorly on you, as a self published author (and could really have a bad effect on reviews of your book, which can lead to poor word - of - mouth).

I wrote a short review on Amazon of the worst book I ever read (The Map of Time) and someone claiming to be the author wrote a couple thousand word explanation of why I was wrong.

There's good news for any author who's ever received a horrible review of his book: bad news travels fast, and a new study Beihang University in China proves it.