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Old 04-16-2012, 06:44 PM   #851
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If opinions are indeed like assholes (that is, everyone has one), then there should be no qualification needed to write a book review. Or to have an asshole.
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Old 04-16-2012, 10:59 PM   #852
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Dear Author's Monday Midday Links links to an author complaining that paid Publishers Weekly self-pub reviews sometimes don't give authors anything they can quote out-of-context for a blurb. The author calls PW "sneaky." Yeah, the irony.

http://www.chicagonow.com/a-city-mom...blished-books/

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What every author wants from a review of this type is that one line they can quote. I would’ve been happy with something like, “Down at the Golden Coin is a fast and witty read that could have been so much better without Strickland’s ham-fisted dialogue.” Because of course I would quote only the first part of the sentence! But reading the PW reviews in the supplement, every one of them is suspiciously crafted so as to not string together a single sentence like the above. There’s basically no way to get a useable blurb from any of the reviews, even when they do say very positive things. It reeks of sneaky, if you ask me.
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Dear Author's Monday Midday Links features an author who is angry that paid Publishers Weekly reviews sometimes don't give one positive sentence an author could quote out-of-context for a blurb. She calls PW "sneaky." Yeah, the irony.

http://www.chicagonow.com/a-city-mom...blished-books/
Your Midday Links link is faulty :C

I don't know anything about this Publisher's Weekly self published book reviews program but somehow it feels strange to me for them to charge people for the opportunity to be included in a supplement of shitty reviews. 4 good novels out of 25? Why would anyone want to waste their time or money reading a supplement filled with reviews of books that suck??

I don't know. Maybe one of you folks on this forum can help enlighten me? I'm assuming her slant on this is pretty biased as well.
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Dear Author's Monday Midday Links links to an author who is angry that paid Publishers Weekly reviews sometimes don't give authors one positive sentence they can quote out-of-context for a blurb. The author calls PW "sneaky." Yeah, the irony.

http://www.chicagonow.com/a-city-mom...blished-books/
Didn't a bunch of movie reviewers threaten to boycott studios who took quotes out of context in this manner? This was a while back.
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I have it on good authority that quoting reviews out-of-context in such a way is soon going to be illegal in the EU. Good job too.
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I have it on good authority that quoting reviews out-of-context in such a way is soon going to be illegal in the EU. Good job too.
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I think it's actually already in effect - the EU Unfair Commercial Practices Directive was enacted in the UK as the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations and sets out how you can advertise your products and the provision of information to consumers. If you use quotes to entice people to sell your products without giving all the information then you could fall foul of the criminal courts. I'll be interested to see if it's been enforced or is being relied upon.

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Wow, when I think I've seen it all.

Someone actually complaining that they have no way to misrepresent someone's opinion of their book?

When did it become common practice to whine about how it's so hard to behave unethically anymore?

I...sheesh... I'm about ready to throw in the towel. People love to complain about how unethical corporations are, but truth is it all comes down to the individual. And when you have individuals openly professing their desire to dupe their consumers, well, what can I say?
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I just expect doctored quotes and pay no attention to any of them.
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Well, sure. But, dare I say? Yes, I dare.

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I just expect doctored quotes and pay no attention to any of them.
Yeah, either doctored or a 'favor for a friend' or whatever. I never pay attention to quotes.

I really wonder if a dazzling quote from Publisher's Weekly would have done much for the sales of her book though? (I ask because, like I said, I never pay attention to quotes. Like BARACK OBAMA could have a quote on the cover of a book and I'd have no clue!) Are there any studies on this? Like how many copies of a book gets sold with a favorable quote vs. with no quote at all?
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Quotes definitely impact sales of a book if they're on the cover. That's why publishers seek out authors with established fanbases to blurb them. If you can tie Book X to Mega-author Y, then you've got a shot of Meg-author's fans picking it up. The Hunger Games is a prime example, with the Stephen King / Stephanie Meyer perfect storm.
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Quotes definitely impact sales of a book if they're on the cover. That's why publishers seek out authors with established fanbases to blurb them. If you can tie Book X to Mega-author Y, then you've got a shot of Meg-author's fans picking it up. The Hunger Games is a prime example, with the Stephen King / Stephanie Meyer perfect storm.
You know, after I wrote that question, I remembered a review of this book called Wings by Aprillyne Pike. The review was something like "THIS BOOK WAS NOTHING LIKE TWILIGHT!!!! I CAN'T BELIEVE STEPHENIE MEYER RECCOMENDED THIS BOOK!!! I WANT A REFUND! ALLCAPS RAGE GRARR! EXCLAMATIONPOINTS!!!" (Well, okay, maybe I'm paraphrasing a tad...)

I love how Stephenie's name is the same size as the real authors! More covers in the link. Even the Russian one has the Stephenie Meyer blurb!

So after your blurber's readers pick your book up, you just have to hope that they don't fling it across the room in rage, LOL!
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It's rather amusing that the quoted author is unethical enough to want a PW quote that can be used out of context, but is too ethical to simply make one up. [avoiding 51 shades of gray pun, but not too strenuously]
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Now it's bloggers, and we've got us a drama-llama stampede out there, folks.
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More review WTFery in the comments:

http://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...t#comment_form

So much so that Jennifer Armentrout had to clarify she's not the Jennifer ArmIntrout writing the Fifty Shades comments (apparently, people are removing the wrong Jennifer's books from their TBR lists):

http://jenniferarmentrout.blogspot.c...d-posting.html


Which is causing Jennifer ArmIntrout to debate whether to continue recapping Fifty Shades:

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This puts me in a really weird place. If I stop, I'm rewarding the bad behavior of a few people and telling them that they are entitled to dictate author behavior with their system of star giving. That's not what I'm saying at all. I'm not considering giving up the recaps because I'm afraid of down votes or bad reviews or hate mail. I can handle all those things. What I'm saying is, I don't want to harm an innocent bystander with my actions.
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It's a spork. What's the big deal? Are they that naive as to how the internet works? For a spork, this is rather mild, considering that the book in question is 50 Shades. I've seen them go into South Park territory for Harry Potter and Twilight.

What really amazes me is they're comparing snarking a book to bullying. I guess anything anyone writes suddenly deserves respect and praise. It's the same attitude that makes some kid's teams give every kid an award, regardless of performance.

Sporks are all in good fun. You're not supposed to take them too seriously. Even fans of HP7 participate in sporking the book and laughing at things that don't really make sense. But, of course, anything that goes over "the line" of constructive criticism is automatically bashing the author, and if they're female, you're being a misogynist. *Sigh*. Really hilarious when 50 Shades (and its source material) is said to be rather sexist itself.

ETA: Reading it carefully, she only addresses, or even refers to James once. And that's to compliment her for having her characters use condoms. I've written harsher shit. The backlash is shilarious.
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I was reading through some of the comments on Jennifer's post and I felt strongly that an author has the right to review a novel without being criticized as unprofessional. I'm not for posts that deliberately degrade and make fun of the author in question, but I don't mind a little bit of snark. There are some books out there that will garner that kind of reaction in certain people and why shouldn't someone be allowed to show that?
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Here we go again:

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7. Leaving a review for a friend. Don’t leave one unless you liked the book. If you can’t find enough positive in the book to rate it well and make one or two positive statements, then abstain from leaving the review. (Or tell a white lie.)
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I really wish I could say THIS WAS THE BEST BOOK I'VE EVER READ but when the first comma error on page 3 was just ONE IN A MILLION errors I counted in just the first 75 pages, I'll just be content to wait for THE NEXT J. K. ROWLING.
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Here we go again:

http://marlamadison.blogspot.com/201...rs-do-you.html

This is getting really, really old.
Oh, FFS. There was somebody who came to the first meeting of our critique group but didn't come back because we didn't want to agree to her "shit sandwich" take on critique (something positive, something that needs work, something positive). If you don't want critique, quit writing; it's going to happen no matter what and no matter how many public meltdowns authors have over the latest 1-star review on Amazon. I'm so tempted to post a reply but I'm taking the high road and keeping my ass on the bench.

Somebody in the blog comments above mentioned it's easy to spot the crackpots, and it is. When the review is obviously personal ("...this buk is teh suxx0rz cuz teh authr iz st00p1d..."), it's easy to shrug it off. If it's a review you can take something and apply it to your next manuscript, that's a review worth reading.
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