Tag: authors behaving badly

  • How to Respond to a Negative Review: Lessons from #HaleNo

    All right, boys and girls, it’s hard-lesson time. Any of you who read my blog know that, while I’m happy to offer advice and share what I’ve learned, I tend to be fairly quiet about voicing strong opinions. Not this time. This time, I’m disgusted. Appalled. Shocked. Heck, I’m darned near rendered wordless, and we all…

  • Authors Behaving Badly (Or, What NOT to Do on Goodreads)

    The other day, I witnessed an exchange on a Goodreads group that made me cringe and left me baffled. An author (we’ll call him Writer) had posted his new release on a group forum…not once, not twice, but thirteen times. In the space of two hours. In clear violation of the group rules, and on the wrong topic thread on the…