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(But it’s still best to ignore any negative comments – just let those go.) Do you have experience with this issue?

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These are all great.Īnd, of course if someone leaves a nice comment on your website, feel free to thank them, briefly. Share it on your Facebook, G+, LinkedIn, and other social sites. If you like the review, there are things you can do. If your readers think you’re going to scrutinize and critique what they write, they are going to be less likely to leave a review. Reviewers don’t like to think that an author is, in effect, hovering over them and passing judgment on their reviews either way. If someone leaves a good review, don’t comment then, either. Readers will also usually pay little mind to reviews which are obviously inappropriate, abusive, are badly written, or seem poorly considered.

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And, think of all the times you read a critical movie review – but bought a ticket anyway, to see for yourself. Remember, even beloved authors like Shakespeare, JK Rowling, and Dr. Readers expect – and respect – some dissent. That’s what you want when everyone posts the same, super-positive, perfect-5-star reviews it can seem fishy. People will naturally have a variety of opinions (and even what they believe to be fact). Potential buyers also want to look at a range of reviews. One – or even a number of negative reviews – won’t sink a book’s sales! (But an author behaving poorly will.) What bothers one reviewer might be just what another reviewer will like about the book. Many people are going to look at your book page and the book’s reviews. Negative reviews may not even hurt your sales. Enjoy those and just ignore the others.Ī writer’s job is to write, not to try to manage readers’ reactions. There will be other reviews, which will be positive, and factually correct. If someone says something false or negative, just let it roll off you, rise above it. And the reviewer who said whatever it is that you don’t like won’t pay the price – you will. If you disrupt that little ecosystem some people will react very poorly to it. While authors can certainly learn from reviews, reviews aren’t primarily meant to be a conversation between an author and a reviewer, but between a reviewer (reader) and other readers. Here’s what you must understand about reviews: If you choose to reply to a review, just understand that you will do it at your own peril. So, it’s better to just let your creative work speak for itself. Some reviews are propagated to Amazon’s international sites as well. Given the huge number of people who read them, there’s a very large potential readership that you have the ability to alienate, all in just a few keystrokes. Reviews are certainly important without them books are unlikely to sell well. They will write you off as someone whose work they won’t ever support.

For everyone who leaves such a comment, there are many others who feel the same way. When an author has commented on a review, I’ve sometimes seen others comment that they’ve “added the author to their never-read list.” Don’t let this happen to you. What the author has done is drawn more attention to the review. More often than not, other readers/reviewers jump into the conversation and it really spirals out of control. Some of these conversations started off okay, but then very often quickly become defensive and unpleasant. And, it seems to happen most often with first-time authors and self-published authors, probably because they just don’t know not to. It happens again and again, especially on Amazon. It’s kind of a lame spectator sport, and it’s really not funny because these authors are more often than not doing terrible damage to their reputations-and their sales-sometimes permanently. One popular topic on these message boards is that of authors who comment on reviews of their books.Īlmost all reviewers agree that authors shouldn’t ever do it, and when it happens, someone often links to the site where it’s going down, so we can all go over and see how badly everyone behaved. I hang out on message boards frequented by other reviewers.

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