More authors behaving badly: Kiera Cass

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A sequel to my post about Leigh Fallon's meltdown! Yet another YA author is losing her shit because someone wrote a negative review of her book, The Selection. But this one gets better: she and her agent, Elena Roth, talk on Twitter about getting all their friends/clients to go to Goodreads to "like" all the positive reviews. And of course, there

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I've been seeing this more and more recently and it just... I honestly can't believe that authors have become so entitled. Do they honestly think that we owe it to them to give them a good review?

What if we we were the NY Times? And we decided to negatively review their book in the paper? Would they write to us and complain about the fact that we gave it a bad review? No, they would take it in stride because we would be a reputable establishment.

I think that with the information age, people have come with dis-credibility. We're just the readers, so our reviews don't really count. They don't think about sites like goodreads and Amazon being legitimate, reputable sites because it's just their lowly ol' readers reviewing. But I wish they would take a different perspective on it. What if we write for a paper or a magazine? Would you ever consider insulting me like that then?

No, never, because you would want me to review your next book in the hopes that the outcome would be more favorable. Authors need to start realizing that their READERS are the new reviewers. It's not the Times you need to worry about, it's us. Because we're going to bring that book down in flames if you do something as stupid as this.