How to Handle Bad Book Reviews in a Drama-Fueled World
If you’re itching to set the reviewer straight, keep reading to learn why that’s not a good move and what to do instead.
What inspired me to write about this?
Every now and then, there’s some Twitter drama about authors responding poorly to bad reviews and being called out for it. Well, last week there was an incident where an author criticized a good review. Yes, you read that correctly. And this wasn’t the first time that happened. The reviewer is in the same blogging community as me and I can vouch that she’s both kind and truthful in her reviews.
In a nutshell, she gave this book a 4-star review where she talked about all the things she loved, but she also mentioned there were quite a few typos. The author didn’t like that and made the reviewer feel really uncomfortable. And it all happened in the open, on Twitter. That’s good for two reasons.
First, the book blogger got a lot of support from the community. She needed to know we have her back. And second, I hope the author learned a valuable lesson on how not to deal with a good review.
Strange as it may seem, this isn’t the first time an author attacked a 4-star review. There was a similar…
