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[sharpest_rose]

Okay I know that like rule one of Author Club is "don't bitch about negative reviews" (actually that's probably rule 2, I think rule 1 might be "don't bitch about rejection letters") but ugh, okay, it's been more than a week since I read this one review at goodreads and I'm still thinking about it every day and getting stressed about it. Full text

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[deathlygrenade]

I wanna read ur book now. A. Cuz ive had your sruff recced to me before. (But it was f locked) and B. I love books with lots of critique. Im gonna find it, and hey. Bad reviews happen. Maybe, u can create a series.. or watevs. But dnt worry about negative reviews, bcuz essentially it means someone cares enough t help you get better. :)

[sharpest_rose]

Thanks for your comment. I really hope you enjoy the book; let me know! <3

[notalwaysweak]

OH BOLLOCKS is all I have to say. BOLLOCKS to that review.

Oh, also, a friend of mine compiled a book of 1001 first lines (basically everything from Dickens to Tolstoy to Marian Keyes) that she's self-publishing, and she put Cassie Claire in there, and I made her take it out and put 'Somehow, after summer, spring shows up again' in its place because I felt if I got to make one major editorial change that should be it and that line is so fucking evocative. (I also pointed out that she'd missed a verb in 'Willie McCoy had a jerk before he died', but honestly since that was Laurell K Hamilton maybe she should have left it.)

[sharpest_rose]

Aw, awesome! Let me know when the book is out. <3 THAT ROCKS.

[aphephobia]

You keep writing because that's what you do.

You don't even know this person, and EVERY writer has their negative reviews. You've just got "Achievement Unlocked."

Seriously, Mary, don't let one person put you off something you love and which others have said you've clearly got some talent in. It makes you feel like shit, and you've let the fuckwad win.

She's allowed to not like your book. (Though I think her fanfiction comparison is open to criticism because reading My Immortal doesn't mean you know anything about fanfic; I've read a number of pieces that put published stuff to shame.) But... so? I'm highly critical of Neil Gaiman, and it seems that everyone else loves him. And, hey, obviously your publishers like what you're doing, or else they wouldn't have taken you on... again.

[sharpest_rose]

It wasn't so much that someone didn't like my book as that the criticisms were so close to my own imagined eviscerations that it was a nightmare come to life. But thank you so much for your kind words. :)

[sharpest_rose]

WHYFORE DO I GET A BIRTHDAY PRESENT I AM A HOBO WHO ROLLS AROUND IN THEIR OWN RUBBISH.

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