Review your favorite authors! :bangs pot with spoon: Review your favorite authors!

I just got back from putting up an Amazon review for somebody else’s book, because if I’m going to nag people about putting up reviews on Amazon (ahem) then I should dang well do the same. Everybody here knows the drill by now, sure: authors need the reviews for a good spot in the search algorithms*, so review their books. All authors, too. If you happen to loathe me and are just hate-reading this site for some** reason – there’s somebody you like out there who needs a review. So go review theirs.

Moe Lane

#commissionearned

*I was a little upset that it’s almost impossible to get a proper spell-check of the misspelled word ‘algorithm,’ until I remembered that I obviously couldn’t spell the word on the first try, either.

**I’ll be assuming that the reason for hate-reading is sad and possibly even pathetic, you understand.

Reminder: REVIEW THE BOOKS YOU READ! On Amazon! Like these!

Or if not my books, then other people’s books. Books of people you like, or want to be nice to, or whatever. They are begging for your reviews. They dream of your reviews. If their books get enough reviews, the algorithm notices!

In fact: I have just gone through my purchases and reviewed some of the books that I have bought and read. If I can do it, then so can you. I challenge you to do it, in fact.

…But start with mine.

So, I’ve been reading more geek review sites.

…Is it just me, or are a lot of said review sites out there hyper-critical, and more than a little petulant? I mean, it’s almost as if people have money down on bets that certain films or projects will fail, and they’re trying to protect their gambling investments. I certainly understand wanting a project that you didn’t personally work on to succeed; if you like a particular film topic or style, naturally you want those to do well so that you’ll get more of those. But rooting for failure seems less logical, somehow.

I know that this topic isn’t likely to be very interesting to people who aren’t me.  But it does interest me, and I’ve been noticing all of this with some bemusement for some time now. Who knows? Maybe I’m the weird one, here. Certainly those review sites are getting hits, which suggests that people are buying what they’re selling…