7 Ways to Handle Reviews: Brought to you Buy Tongue & Cheek
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We all want reviews and there’s always the one that makes us regret politely asking that people leave reviews. Then we go right back to asking for them because they’re part of the life blood of an author. Reviews are the highs and lows of our adventure, which are becoming harder and harder to come by. Now, the methods of getting reviews are numerous in amount and range all across the morality spectrum. Instead of poking fun at how we get them, I’m going to give some T&C tips about reacting properly. I have to say this is humorous because it’s a topic that people take very seriously. Been there before and don’t have any plans of revisiting that debate again.
- Do NOT publicly react to negative reviews even if they get personal. If you have loyal readers then they will handle it, but responding in person…
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What Is a Comma Splice?
…sharing my leap into audio publishing… a whole new dimension…
…FOR AUTHORS AND READER PALS:
…a wee update on my recently-hinted-at foray into the WURLD of Audio books for my Jack Calder crime thriller series:
…the first bold strides have been taken… Narrator Supreme, Master Chris C. Hogan, has provided the initial voice demos, and we are up and running… for any of yeez thinking of going the audio route with yer wee masterpieces, an interesting coupla initial observations on the process:
1. Jack Calder and the rest of the characters have been living in my head for the past ten years now, populating the narratives of five titles and a sixth, Work-in-Progress… little wonder, then, when I heard Chris’s version of their voices on the demo, they sounded like strangers to my ears, ‘coz I’ve been conversing with them all for a decade, and of course, their voices in my head are already established…
Major Lesson #1 :…
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What to do with old obsolete grammar rules?
Do we throw them out?
Or do we realize some rules are made to be broken?
Hooray! At last, a common sense post about what to do about hard and fast rules that make no sense in this day and time.
6 Old Grammar Rules That Are Finally Going Out of Style by KELLY GURNETT
Here is my take on her 6 rules:
- Ending sentences with a preposition.
- Guilty, but I didn’t know this rule was attributed to Winston Churchill
- Starting sentences with a conjunction.
- Oh yes, guilty. This gem was apparently courtesy of teachers in the 19th century.
- Sentence fragments.
- Now honestly, I write…
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22 Things All Writers Have to Deal With At Some Point Because Writing Is Hard
1. Writing for free.
2. Being approached to write for free. (Too often.)
3. Writing in a very uncomfortable position while on a train/bus/plane/in a car.
4. Trying to write while your fur children/tiny humans are battling for your attention.
5. Falling asleep on your keyboard because you procrastinated again why do you always do this.
6. Wanting to agree to do another writing thing but oops you can’t create more hours in the day. Sad…
7. Accepting a writing gig because you want to buy a thing but can’t justify doing so otherwise.
8. Accepting a writing gig because you need to adult, even though you don’t want another writing gig.
9. Pitching something you don’t really want to write because you know it’ll circulate well.
10. Being able to quit a job you don’t like because you found a writing thing you do like — that pays.
11…
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Rosco the Rascal Visits the Pumpkin Patch by Shana Gorian
I have read this children’s book geared towards ages 7 – 12 and my review follows the author’s book blurb found on Amazon.
“James and Mandy head to the pumpkin patch with their friendly dog, Rosco, one sunny autumn day, to choose their pumpkins for Halloween. It’s Rosco’s first time at a farm, and he manages to create a little chaos. But when the brother and sister pair find that two bullies are scaring other kids deep inside the corn maze, will Rosco shape up and help out? Join the kids and their rascally dog in this wholesome family adventure, a wonderful autumn read for kids.”
This is a cute and adventurous story for children and revolves around an Autumn/Halloween scenario. There is a nuclear family unit consisting of two parents, one boy and one girl child, and their funny and lovable dog, Rosco. Rosco tries to be good but he does get into hi-jinks at times. As a child reads it is easy to envision being inside a corn maze, and doing all the things they partake in. Understandably the Halloween theme isn’t for everyone, but this is an enjoyable fun read. The flow is easy and truly the grammar and punctuation is perfect. The illustrations are cute but they are so small that I skipped over them. I think they should be bigger to make a better impact on the reader. Nevertheless, five stars!
Intellectual Property – an Indie minefield
I am in no danger of having my intellectual property [IP] diddled away by some corporation waving a contract, but Kristine Kathryn Rusch* is, and her latest post was scary to say the least. Here’s a short quote:
‘Those companies can all acquire IP from stupid writers for less than $10,000 per property forever. Just say the word “movie” or “TV” and most stupid writers give away their IP for free, in the hopes of having a movie or TV show made from their property. The property they no longer own, by the way.’
But the most terrifying part was this:
‘It doesn’t matter if your copyright is registered, the expert said. They’ll register anyway, even before they’ve started production on anything. The strategy is to create confusion over who owns the copyright, and it’ll take litigation to straighten that confusion out.‘
The bold emphasis is…
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14 Things You’ll Relate to If You Have an Endless To-Read Pile
How do I make a change to my book after it is published?
Go to the original blog post and save it for future needs.
When Angels Fly 