Gaiman N, Coraline, Urban Fantasy, (Bloomsbury: 2002)
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Corliane is a bored adolescent stuck in a strange new home with parents that don’t listen to her and a cat the occasionally talks. But that isn’t the strangest thing about the house. The strangest thing is the hidden door in the drawing room; the door that leads to the other mother, the mother with the button eyes, the one that wants to keep and love and care for Coraline forever, if she’ll only let her take out her eyes.
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In this article I’m going to break a golden rule and talk about a negative review I received. Normally talking about reviews of your own books is not a good idea. However, I do think it’s important that we talk about how useful and positive a negative review can be.
I want to talk about this review because I think it’s great example of how a review from someone who didn’t like the book but wrote something useful and positive thing for both authors and readers. I have nothing but appreciation for the reviewer, who took the time both the read my book and write about it, and I hope that the readers of my blog will show this reviewer the same respect.
This particular review will form a kernel around which I talk about the relationship between authors and reviewers, and how to deal with other sorts of negative reviews. Once again, please let me emphasise that this is not an attack on the reviewer, who I believe wrote and an excellent and accurate description of why they didn’t enjoy the book as much as others might. The main objective is to show why their critique is so well written, how to see the positives in someone not liking what you wrote (and potential lessons to learn), and then look more broadly at negative reviews.
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Book bloggers have become an essential part of publishing.
If you are an indie author you are not going to sell many books without them. Far more importantly than that, you will never find a more engaged, passionate group of book lovers – and, asides from ourselves, these are the people we write for, right?
In this article I’m going to talk about why book bloggers are so important and what they do, about book blog tours and the one taking place for my novel Vile, about how to find the Book Blogger for you, and some does and don’ts when dealing with these very important people in the world of publishing. I’ll also be reviewing all of the blogs that are reviewing my book on the blog tour. Vengeance! (Just kidding. Probably).
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