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Should Authors Reply To Negative Online Reviews?

Posted on December 10, 2012 by Rob Schwarz in General | 2 responses

We all know it’s ethically frowned upon to write reviews for your own books, much less to write fake reviews for books by other authors. It happens, though. Some even don pseudonyms and secretly promote their books on forums.

Boggles my mind.

But how should authors handle negative reader reviews? Should they respond at all?

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On Taking Criticism Personally

Posted on December 5, 2012 by Rob Schwarz in Blogging, General | no responses

When you get hit with that very first negative blog comment, it hurts. It’s demoralizing. Here you are, working as hard as you can, and then someone swoops in right underneath you and tells you it sucks. It’s stupid. It’s boring.

Yeah, thanks guys.

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