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Welcome to Melinda Pierce, author and blogger, on getting negative review and what to do about it!<\/p>\n

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No, I\u2019m not a negative person by nature, so when I say I love negative reviews I don\u2019t want you to get the wrong impression. For this post I\u2019m talking about turning a negative into a positive.\u00a0 Think glass half full with your choice of drink.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think\u00a0we’ve\u00a0all seen them, and you may follow some of them even looking forward to the next entertaining review.\u00a0 By \u201cthem\u201d I mean Ms. Snarky reviewer from Goodreads holding on to a 2.5 or below average rating for reviews, or the Amazon drive-by Mr. Meanie who leaves a scathing one paragraph review for almost all the books he reads \u2013 in genres he obviously hates.<\/p>\n

It makes you wonder, if they\u00a0aren’t\u00a0reading for the enjoyment \u2013 just what are they reading and reviewing all these books for?<\/p>\n

My best guess is they do it for the same reasons we sit down and pour our hearts out on the page for our novels.\u00a0 They crave to be noticed for writing something entertaining, and unfortunately, those that follow their words as gospel are some who still enjoy sitting at the head table with the mean girls. Like in high school, when you see your friend pushed down by a mean girl your first reaction is to stand up for them. Retaliate. Leave a comment for them<\/i> letting them<\/i> know they are not as cool as they think they are.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m here to tell you that mindset is the worst possible way to handle a bad review for your author friends.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Each author has a process for handling their own bad reviews. They gripe to spouses, friends, co-authors, critique partners, writing groups, and writing loops.\u00a0 They eat chocolate, cry in the tub, or down a glass a wine (or three). Some don\u2019t read reviews while others respond to the reviewer defending their work, and I think you\u2019d have to live under a writing rock to not see how that has backfired on more than one poor soul. But what happens when it\u2019s not your work garnering the negative attention, but an author friend?<\/p>\n

If you are like me, then you may feel vicariously offended, and if you are a critique partner of said book, sometimes responsible or defensive.<\/p>\n

True story \u2013 a couple of years ago in my tight knit critique group of seven, a fellow author pointed us in the direction of a review of her newest release that can only be categorized as hateful. It was by a Ms. Snarky (not real username) on Goodreads with a low rating. This girl lived for putting down books she was getting for free from NetGalley. Worse than the review, her followers were thanking her for saving them from buying said book \u2013 just based of her full of snark review.\u00a0 Our group knew the book, loved the book, and had lived the book with our critique partner.\u00a0 We were enraged on her behalf, and started posting and plotting on a way to hit her hard. I\u2019m talking A-Team tactics here, and embarrassingly enough I was leading the way on ideas.<\/p>\n

Lucky for us, our critique partner stopped us cold. While she did want us to share in her misery and trash talk the audacity of this gal in private, it would be unprofessional of us to respond in any<\/i> way to this reviewer or the review.<\/p>\n

And with that enlightening comment from our level-headed CP comes the author brand\/marketing tie-in \u2013 it would be obvious that we were supporters commenting on her behalf and it could possibly reflect negatively on her author brand.\u00a0 It could result in follow up discussions that could bring in to question how she herself handles reviews, and possibly cause her other books to be reviewed by this Ms. Snarky with similar results and missed buys.\u00a0 It simply\u00a0wasn’t\u00a0worth the possibility of tarnishing her image as a professional author. That only covers her author branding.\u00a0 We were also risking our own. It\u2019s a small world between reviewers and authors, and people have long memories.<\/p>\n

So, what were we to do? Absolutely nothing.\u00a0 Seems obvious, right? Well, I like to take it a step further than nothing. I like to buy the book, read it, and enjoy it.\u00a0 If you are a person who likes to review and post those, then you can also post an honest review as payback.\u00a0 That\u2019ll show them.\u00a0 Believe me, it really will. The reviewers look at other reviews too. After all, you just became their competition.<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s one more step I like to take when I see a negative review of a fellow author \u2013 and this is really the reason I love them.\u00a0 I like to turn it into a learning experience. Especially, if it is for a critique partner and I can turn it into a study of craft. If the reviewer made comments about how the hero was a male chauvinist who acted like a cave man, I can reflect on that specific issue while reading and play devil\u2019s advocate.\u00a0 Is it a valid comment or just a matter of taste? Or is Ms. Snarky against all strong alpha heroes and by her hating on this hero, does this mean the author has done his\/her job making the hero alpha enough to stand out?<\/p>\n

See my point now? There are many different ways to look at a negative review for your fellow authors without letting it crawl under your skin.<\/strong> There are plenty of negative to turn into positives, and all the while keeping a professional image.<\/p>\n

So, tell me your stories. Have you fumed over your author friends reviews that have come from those holding a mean girl status?\u00a0 A critique partners? How did you handle the situation?<\/p>\n

Thanks for stopping by, and always Happy Writing!<\/p>\n

Melinda<\/p>\n

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\"Melinda<\/a>Melinda B. Pierce is an author hobbyist, mother of two, and self-proclaimed trophy wife \u2013 although her husband defines her as being more high maintenance than anything else.\u00a0\u00a0When she has time she writes in almost every sub-genre of romance and refuses to follow the path of most resistance.\u00a0\u00a0Connect with her on Twitter @MelindaBPierce<\/a><\/p>\n

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