Reviews

I'm not a best-selling author, but I do have consistent sales across a variety of genres. But even though a growing number of people have paid money to get their hands on my books, I find that drumming up reviews is like pulling teeth. So when I do get a review, I'm super excited. I love getting feedback from readers. Getting a review on Amazon or Goodreads makes it feel less like I'm tossing my books out into the void and more like I'm making some sort of meaningful contribution to the zeitgeist.

So just to recap: Reviews are awesome. Please review my books. Be brutally honest. I can take it.

That said, would it kill people to sprinkle their reviews with a dash of intelligence? It's grating to get a review along the lines of... 

"This book was great, but it's part of a series and I hate series book. One star."

"Super engaging and fun to read, but I hate science-fiction. One star."

"I laughed, I cried, I shit my pants. But I don't like words with vowels in them. One star."

Why do people write reviews like this? Granted, only two of these examples are based on actual reviews, but the point's the same. People that knock a product because they didn't like some innate aspect of that product (such as its genre or number of pages) should have their reviewing rights revoked. How the fuck can you like something and then give it a shitty rating because of something that is a feature and not a bug?

Anyway, there's my Friday rant.

And again, I love reviews. I want them. Please write them. Just don't be an idiot about it.

Fire and Fury

This new book from Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury, is pretty funny. It's especially funny because it seems that the book has confirmed a lot of the most ridiculous satirical shit out of Crump. At the risk of sounding like a narcissistic douche, I'm enjoying watching life imitate art.