I had lots of favorable comments on them, but most folks didn't
bother leaving reviews.
Not exact matches
A
review from CNN's Paul Tatara was almost cruel in its dismissal: «If you
bother to scratch through the silver glitter eye shadow, there's absolutely no movie
left.»
One of the biggest problems that self - published authors have is that very few people
bother to
leave reviews, and those who do tend to be the ones who give either 1 or 5 stars, i.e. the extreme views.
This used to
bother me in the beginning, but now I understand that there is nothing I can do about it except to remind my readers to
leave their own
reviews.
People grabbed them, didn't
bother leaving any sort of
review at all.
As well, my concern as a professionally published author is that aggressive marketing (TV commercials, Youtube trailers, fancy websites etc.) are creating a successful viral marketing paradigm for self - pubbed fiction that has the potential to impact trad publishing &
leave writers wondering «why
bother with the arduous and often heartbreaking process of queries, rejection slips, the endless waiting, etc. when the neighbor simply threw up a website, hired a gang of marketing professionals and bingo, Neil Gaiman is
reviewing their book before it's even published?!»
Just remember to read everything a little critically, and remember that for every unhappy, complaining customer online there are 10 happy customers that couldn't be
bothered to
leave a
review (not 100 % sure about the statistics, but I'm sure it's along those lines).
Journalists would toss the phrase around but never
bother to tell people what it actually meant, sprinkling it into
reviews and
leaving readers to figure out its meaning through context.