In direct response to the matter of peer review, 40 years of publishing geologic reports (over 300) has convinced me that peer review is a sham: your friends
write glowing reviews, your enemies slam you.It will never change.
Travel writers often get free travel, meals and flights, but that doesn't mean they always have to
write glowing reviews.
They actually pay people who have never read the books to
write glowing reviews.
Getting Aunt Susie and the gals in her garden club to
all write glowing reviews of your opus can backfire, big time.
Some authors will be upset because they can't solicit friends and family members with the same last name to
write glowing reviews, they may figure out how to put out a better product.
There are no barriers to publication now, and you can write garbage but still get a lot of people to
write glowing reviews that convince others that your book is amazing.
Earlier this weekend,
I wrote a glowing review of my new favourite newborn cloth diaper — the Funky Fluff newborn.
Tempted to
write a glowing review of a friend's product under a fake name?
Jeremy loved this film and
wrote a glowing review, and I caught up with it in Sitges, and it's a one - of - kind mind - bender that I highly recommend seeing for yourself.
This premiered at the Sundance Film Festival under the title Search, and was one of my favorite films of the festival -
I wrote a glowing review of it, which is quoted in this trailer.
This beautiful film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, where I fell in love with it and
wrote a glowing review.
But if they're aware of these issues, they're probably aware that reviewers who were willing to
write a glowing review for a price have options to make sure those reviews showed as verified purchase reviews anyway.
Doesn't mean I'm suddenly going to compromise my standards and
write a glowing review for my friend's book that I haven't read, or read and didn't like!
After the interview, they bought my book and
wrote their glowing reviews on Amazon.
What about paying Kirkus reviews to read your book and
write a glowing review that you can interject into your book cover?
(I particularly enjoyed Zombie Punter, and
I wrote her a glowing review for it, but that's a story for another day).
Just finished Star Nomad and downloaded Honor's flight through Kindle Unlimited, I'll
write a glowing review later, and now I find there's a bunch of accompanying short stories!
Write down a list of your extracurricular activities, achievements, and anything else that you think might help
them write a glowing review of you.
If you don't feel the same way, go ahead and
write a glowing review about your airport layover, followed by your middle seat journey so we could all have a laugh.
I didn't want to become a victim of this and
write some glowing review that I would go on to regret mere weeks later.
Spirited spelunker Ben Fruzzetti recently
wrote a glowing review for the title, concluding it to be a tour de force of expert design and difficulty, not to mention one of his favorite games of all time.
Chuan Leekpai, former leader of Thailand's Democrat Party who served as prime minister twice,
wrote a glowing review of SCL's services.
For five dollarpounds, we'd have
written a glowing review about Retrica, but for free this is an astonishing gift - a superb and unmissable creative camera app.
You don't want to take the risk that a) a reference might not have
written a glowing review of your work; or b) the new employer dislikes and / or doubts the reliability of the reference himself.
Not exact matches
In a
glowing review of a movie called A Perfect Family, Rex Reed
writes that the main character Eileen is «a devout, self - obsessed Catholic so enslaved by dogma and ritual that she crosses herself and gives thanks to God before she so much as eats a vegetarian tamale.»
Thank you for taking the time to
write us a such a
glowing review, Happy Baking!
Don't want to waste it so let me know how much and take a look at your recipe because I think you forgot to
write it after your
glowing review.
Although I will not print any libelous statements about your product or company, I reserve the right to
write anything negative I find about the product in a fair, courteous, and professional manner, and I am under no obligation to
write a
glowing, positive
review about any food item.
(A few of the
glowing reviews of Goreham's books on Amazon were
written by people affiliated with The Heartland Institute.)
When we featured the dress several months ago, there were only a few colors available, but the reader who'd
written us to recommend it liked it so much she'd bought all of them — it's great to see that it now comes in 6 colors and has 75
glowing reviews at Nordstrom, where it's available in sizes 2 - 16.
I
wrote in my
glowing review: «A perfect film is the kind where, as I'm watching it, every next scene must be as amazing as the one before it.
I was the only black person in the theater, lured to the film by its
glowing reviews — at the time of this
writing, it holds a rating of 93 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, boosted by several notices that gush about how the film is a dark but honest look at humanity and grief.
I
wrote in my
glowing Sundance
review that it's «an utterly sublime cinematic experience that left me floored.»
As Ethan
wrote in his
glowing review, it's «sincere, funny, passionate» and «serves as a breakthrough for Heller as a filmmaker and Powley as a bright future star.»
If this story was about two men driving around America and stopping off at the Grand Canyon, I don't think I'd
write such a
glowing review.
He began
writing reviews of his own work, and even included a
glowing letter from Ralph Waldo Emerson on the front page of his second printing.
I mean, I'd already
written a fairly
glowing review of the car when I took it for a brief spin in Virginia last summer at Volkswagen's behest.
So I promised I'd
write a «real»
review of WDS, not just
glowing praises but a fair and balanced perspective.
Some critics love it, some are lukewarm, but even those who
write less than
glowing reviews have to admit that, whatever Hosseini's literary weaknesses might be, he does
write very compelling storylines and is indisputably one of the world's nicer human beings.
Integrity
Reviews abound on the web these days but it's often difficult to know which to trust, especially when there are businesses who are paid to post glowing reviews, and authors who solicit their friends and family to post 5 - star reviews, or even resort to writing them themselves under assumed
Reviews abound on the web these days but it's often difficult to know which to trust, especially when there are businesses who are paid to post
glowing reviews, and authors who solicit their friends and family to post 5 - star reviews, or even resort to writing them themselves under assumed
reviews, and authors who solicit their friends and family to post 5 - star
reviews, or even resort to writing them themselves under assumed
reviews, or even resort to
writing them themselves under assumed names.
Every
glowing review I've
written for my faves are all in tact.
Likewise with the damn good
writing, great blurb, grabbing sample pages, and
glowing reviews.
«The strong, supple prose on display in all three novels, the intelligence of the plotting, and the skillfully varied pacing make this a standout trilogy — highly recommended» — from a
review by the Historical Novel Society «Breathtakingly gorgeous
writing & a multi-layered tale of such depth, breadth and insight that it was very nearly a spiritual experience &» — from a
review by T. T. Thomas on Amazon.com» & there s no ring of power or
glowing sword of specialness; the magic, like the tone of the book, is quiet.
I gathered the (by then) large mound of
GLOWING reviews for this book, and pointed out that it had quickly earned out, according to my royalty statement (although it would be years before I'd get a penny of that, since I had not yet even
written the final book on the contract, which would have to be released and earn out before I'd get a penny of royalties for the first book).
Now that Amazon is suing more than 1,000 people who allegedly offered to
write glowing product
reviews for cash, you might reasonably be concerned.
I've never actually been to Olam but I have to
write about it here because I have heard so many
glowing reviews about it from our vegetarian guests that frequent the Blue Surf Sanctuary Hotel in Santa Teresa.
GameSpot
writes: «The original White Knight Chronicles may not have received
glowing reviews, but it was a solid, gorgeous - looking Japanese role - playing game nonetheless.
I certainly hope so, it was an amazing title — as should be evidenced by the
glowing review I
wrote for it.
In October she was the subject of a
glowing profile in the New Yorker («Owens had hit on a necessarily willful new direction — not exactly forward, but fruitfully sideways — for painting, my favorite art form,»
writes the art critic Peter Schjeldahl), and her retrospective at the Whitney was met with similarly gushing
reviews (the New York Times» critic Roberta Smith notes that «her work has a playful, knowing, almost - Rococo lightness of being»).
(A few of the
glowing reviews of Goreham's books on Amazon were
written by people affiliated with The Heartland Institute.)