[This post first appeared in three parts at SF Signal, Debuts and Reviews, and Grasping for the Wind.]
For the Love of Pete, Don’t Mix Your Genres;
Or… The New York Times Book Review Hates YOU, but I Don’t;
Or… Why Where Your Book Gets Shelved Determines Your Intelligence, Work-Ethic and Value to Society
That’s a longish title I’ll [...]
Posts Tagged ‘responding to reviews’
A Manifesto of Imaginative Literature by Justin Allen
Part 3: A Manifesto of Imaginative Literature by Justin Allen
For the Love of Pete, Don’t Mix Your Genres;
Or… The New York Times Book Review Hates YOU, but I Don’t;
Or… Why Where Your Book Gets Shelved Determines Your Intelligence, Work-Ethic and Value to Society
Read Part 1 at SF Signal
Read Part 2 at Debuts and Reviews
Part 3: For the Love of Pete, Don’t Mix Your Genres
Or [...]
Peter V. Brett responds to negative review of The Warded Man
If you have been reading this blog for the past month or so, you may remember my long essay where I opined on the subject of authors responding to book reviews.
Well, Peter V. Brett author of the The Warded Man, and someone whom I respect a great deal as a writer and friendly author [...]
On the Opinion that Authors Should Not Respond to Reviews
In which I list good reasons why authors shouldn’t, two reasons why I wish they would, and I admit to an excess of selfishness.
There is a prevailing opinion among authors and others in the literary community that asserts that authors should not respond to reviews.
This is certainly an understandable contention, for several reasons.
1. Authors have limited [...]
