Hmmm. Not sure about the Twitter increase. I posted about this in a small private group, and since people chat elsewhere too... maybe. Yes, YA is the most problematic group. Some of the young reviewers do get unnecessarily harsh in their reviews, but the authors can be just as nuts. Most of th...
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LOL. His sales rank is #949,384 Paid in Kindle Store, which means maybe 1 or 2 books per month. If that is tripled sales, well good for him. Glad he is finally happy. Meanwhile, I see your Twitter followers have taken off! Congrats. I think a lot of new book bloggers don't realize that a small p...
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BTW, I know you don't want to respond to him but you might want to just Tweet this article out to all your readers. It is very interesting, IMO. http://www.thepassivevoice.com/04/2014/suing-e-book-reviewers-and-being-a-public-jerk-two-bad-ideas-in-one/
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Don't respond but keep copies, he is just threatening you. Truth is not libel, so he has no case.
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Unfortunately, far too many take bad reviews as a personal attack on them, but it is never OK for them to escalate it to the level this author did. I saw this great article today and I think it is something all authors should see, IMO. No book goes without a bad review. http://www.buzzfeed.com/ch...
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Please keep copies of these, they may be important. If they are sending you more harassing emails or threats via personal email or directly to your blog, you could have steps to take against them.
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I reported it to GR right away. They deleted the socks who attacked you, plus three more. Did the author send you direct messages too? I assume he must have. So sorry for this! You are right about the thick skin, but also know you are not alone. The reviewer community loves to look out for each o...
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Damn, those are all sock accounts going after you. Did you report it to GR?
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Reading that post is like reading blogs from July 2012, it is just old news. I don't like to see anyone doxxed, but it is hard to feel sorry when he is using the same methodology those bozos at STGRB used. Maybe now they will get it and understand why the entire industry was so incensed at their ut...
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