Following nicely along from yesterday’s post in which we saw a demonstration of how one particular writer seemed determined to shoot herself in both writerly feet, I was very pleased to read this morning of a different author getting things exactly right. When Amanda Hocking won a charity auction recently and was sent a couple…
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The Author’s Big Mistake In Action
A couple of years ago I blogged about The Author’s Big Mistake which is, for those of you who don’t know, replying to a review with anything more than “thank you for your time”. If you want to see why it’s such a bad idea for a writer to comment on a review, read this…
The Author’s Big Mistake
I thought that this novice writer’s reaction to a poor review was bad. But last week Alice Hoffman claimed the prize for The Worst Ever Reaction To An Unfavourable Book Review by posting the reviewer’s email address and phone number onto Twitter and encouraging her fans to harass the reviewer concerned. In Hoffman’s favour she…