28 Monday Dec 2015
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I’m posting my Amazon review of WetWork: Dark Man Case Files, Episode 1 (Kindle Edition) just in case it “disappears.”
Sexy and Dangerously Gorgeous Dark Man will leave you wanting more
“Dark Man is a mysterious and dangerous hero in this tightly wound work by author Cadence Denton. If you love your anti-heroes tall, dark, gorgeous, and tortured, WetWork: Dark Man Case Files Episode 1 is a wonderful read.”
Five Stars.
28 Monday Dec 2015
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Any writer, no matter their chosen genre, will tell you finding time to write is always a challenge unless you’re incredibly disciplined. The past month has been full of family obligations and seriously frustrating situations where writing has been impossible. Not just the holidays, but having to be present to deal with much needed home repairs has meant hair pulling and teeth gnashing at times.
Writing requires solitude and quiet, and when the sound of circular saws cutting through metal, glass shattering, cigar smoke blowing in open windows, well, you get the picture.
Loved ones poking their heads into my office to make sure I’m not lonely during the holidays, or showing me projects they’re working on is a problem only fellow writers can understand.
The fact my husband still lives after attempting to crawl under my desk for a dog bed during a stolen writing break is a testimony of love. And self restraint.
Soon enough everyone will be gone back to school, DH will be back at work, and it will be only me and the fur kids. Plenty of solitude and quiet peppered with yipping at feral cats outside, or hapless UPS drivers.
Time to rachet down the anxiety of not being able to work, and enjoy the holidays for what they’re meant to be: sharing precious time with loved ones no matter how pressing the deadline or desire to create.
21 Monday Dec 2015
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It happened again. A friend left a beautiful and succinct review of The Coffee Prince, and it disappeared. I only had two reviews of The Coffee Prince on Amazon, and now there is only one. This may not be very significant in the scheme of the universe, but if you’re a newbie writer, any good reviews taken away by the gods of Amazon and Goodreads are a loss.
Every writer needs good reviews. We hope for them, pray for them, just a few words of encouragement. Then the reviews police take them away because of personal relationships with the writer, or a shared email, or some mystifying quotient. This wouldn’t be so ironic if I didn’t know fellow authors who have suffered abusive or ridiculous mean comments. Like one star along with the statement “I haven’t read it,” that Amazon allows to remain.
Or trolls that attacked a Sandy Hook parent writing about the loss of her child in that massacre.
Amazon and Goodreads don’t protect us from trolls or stupidity, but they do remove perfectly good and honest reviews. Or the remarks of reviewers who thought an RWA bestselling novelist’s 1980’s novel, wasn’t sexy enough and went after her with sharpened claws.
I’m not one of those people who paid a “reviewer” from Fiverr to write and post reviews of my work, but a schmo who had two reviews. Now one.
Here’s what I suggest: if you have a personal relationship with a writer, avoid Goodreads or Amazon, and post a short review on the writer’s website or Facebook page. Tell them they can use it. God knows they appreciate reviews and treasure every one.
Thanks, and now I’ll get off my soapbox.
Beabe
Tabitha Bishop Writer 