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Author Topic: Writers! How not to respond to a bad review  (Read 1373 times)

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Re: Writers! How not to respond to a bad review
« Reply #30 on: 29 March, 2011, 08:05:53 PM »
Was that Tony Lee?

Funny stuff, but everything about her writing suggests English is not her first language.
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Re: Writers! How not to respond to a bad review
« Reply #31 on: 29 March, 2011, 08:35:14 PM »
Was that Tony Lee?

Funny stuff, but everything about her writing suggests English is not her first language.

Everything about her bio - born in London, now living in the US - suggests it is.

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Re: Writers! How not to respond to a bad review
« Reply #32 on: 29 March, 2011, 08:50:32 PM »
Quick! Someone send her some poo and see if she blames it on us!

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Re: Writers! How not to respond to a bad review
« Reply #33 on: 29 March, 2011, 09:29:34 PM »
Arsom. That gave me a good chuckle.
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Re: Writers! How not to respond to a bad review
« Reply #34 on: 29 March, 2011, 10:13:24 PM »
I'll bet her sales are rocketing from this...

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Re: Writers! How not to respond to a bad review
« Reply #35 on: 03 April, 2011, 01:02:36 PM »
This whole business inspired me in writing my DCS blog this week, entitled 'What to do with a bad review':

'Social networking sites and web forums have been ablaze this week about self-published author, Jacqueline Howett. Her very public response to a review of her Kindle release, THE GREEK SEAMAN, has both gobsmacked and entertained readers across Internet Land. And what a car-crash, poor Jacqueline simply unable to accept the mild criticism offered by Big Al’s Books blog reviewer, seemingly because any criticism of her work at all is an insult. And I must say, despite the increasingly overblown drama throughout her blog comments, I think all writers would have to relate to how Jacqueline is feeling. Dealing with criticism isn’t easy…'

READ MORE: http://darkcentralstation.com/?p=1440

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Re: Writers! How not to respond to a bad review
« Reply #36 on: 03 April, 2011, 01:26:10 PM »
her Kindle release, THE GREEK SEAMAN (LOL!)


Fixed that for you...  :D

This is 2011. The word 'seaman' is never not funny.
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Re: Writers! How not to respond to a bad review
« Reply #37 on: 03 April, 2011, 01:30:01 PM »
her Kindle release, THE GREEK SEAMAN (LOL!)


Fixed that for you...  :D

This is 2011. The word 'seaman' is never not funny.

haha! True, but poor girl... surely folks have laughed enough! :)

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Re: Writers! How not to respond to a bad review
« Reply #38 on: 03 April, 2011, 07:03:49 PM »
That's quite special  :) Considering no one else appears to join in.

(...and his bio was a bit OTT before he kicked off...)

His bio is great:

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He knew that he needed a fresh start, that it was only a matter of time, allowing the healing process to be completed. Then, life started to be better, more enjoyable. Ricky met the woman who is today his wife. Paula Arango, a beautiful girl from Colombia, has been an extraordinarily positive influence in Ricky’s life and creative environment. Paula is from Medellin, Colombia and she is Ricky’s best friend and partner. Ricky and Paula were married in Colombia, where Ricky and Paula initiated a tremendous publicity campaign to bring Ricky back in the media limelight, to make sure that his name would be known again and to carve his way back in the industry. He granted interviews and his fans started appreciating his return.

The interest in Ricky’s creations had been energized. Colombian women are beautiful, seductive and sensual. Ricky recognized that a phenomenal opportunity had been presented for the creation of a high quality gentlemen’s magazine with appealing and interesting articles and features for both men and women. The magazine, Skin Addiction, was to feature some of the most beautiful Latin American women in the world Nude. This was the very first time someone would try to publish a Playboy type of magazine but now in Spanish and published, produced and printed in Colombia.

It is a brilliant idea really - launch a huge publicity campaign (in Columbia?) and then recognise the potential of all those young women in a war-torn nation, so you feature them in a gentlemen's magazine that avoids all the usual things like pipe reviews* and instead goes for photographs of naked women.

Seems to have gone down well:

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The public’s reaction was unbelievable. Colombia was in a state of shock over the release of the photographs and the quality of the product.

He gave it all up to concentrate on his art, but his site now mainly links through to somewhere called "porn ink." Classy.

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