On the verge of obsession
Today is the day SNOWDRIFT should be available on Fictionwise.com. Fictionwise is the Amazon of the epublishing world. Yeah, Amazon sells electronic copies of books in their Kindle store, but Fictionwise is by far the bigger seller of ebooks from smaller epubs.
Monday is the day the newest books are uploaded. Sometimes it happens early in the day, sometimes you have to wait awhile. So far, after a few checks, I have not seen my book listed. I’m trying to be patient.
This is a book with only one measly review. And the review is something like three lines long. Not much to go on. I really love to see how the readers perceive my books. Someone who selected and paid for my book. It means a lot to me to know what they think. And Fictionwise gives me that opportunity.
It lets me know if my work is getting better, staying the same, or has flaws. Every writer wants to improve. And if one book out of the several I have written gets lower reviews, I would probably analyze it to figure out why. So far (gee, out of the TWO books on Fictionwise), I seem to be hitting about the same, with my bestselling book doing slightly better in the ratings department.
If you need a hint about which one sold better, you can find out all by yourself (well, which one sold better on Fictionwise). Do a search for “Kris Eton” under “author” in the search function on Fictionwise. Then, you can select to order my books by ‘bestselling.’ Ta-da! My little two book list ordered for you.
Because of a gosh darn crazy weekend, I had no mental energy for writing. I am determined this week to get some pages written. MUSH!
Kris
July 7th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
Just wait until you get your first “poor”
OMG it doesn’t matter how much reason or common sense you have or have many “great” ratings, all you do is wonder why that ONE person didn’t like it.
Half the time I wonder if they know that and that’s why they rate you poor. Just to drive you MAD wondering! lmao
See I can obsess with the best of them.
July 7th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
I’m more apt to pick up a book or watch a movie BECAUSE of a poor or negative review. Those are the ones that intrigue me. Is it because the reviewer thinks they have some sort of power over the author with a poor review? Is it sour grapes because they’re jealous they didn’t write the story? What? One of my favorite reviews for my book Lonely Places is a review that complained that the story was lacking in history and the reviewer didn’t know when or where the story took place. BAWWWWHAHAHAHAHAHA. I’m convinced the reviewer didn’t even read the story.
July 7th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
What I think is funny is that the newer you are to this writing/publishing thing, the kinder the reviewers seem to be. But when you have more titles out there and a ‘following’ that seems to mean the odd ‘poor’ rating or two. Guess because someone buys it, expecting this decent selling book with a lot of good reviews to be so friggin’ stellar that when there is one misstep, they slam you!
I go with the idea that the odd ‘poor’ review for an otherwise good book is someone trying to manipulate your overall rating somehow. I mean, for me to give a book a ‘poor’ rating, it would have to be really, really awful.
Yes, you are right, no ‘poors’ yet, but I’m sure I’ll get my fair share before long!
Kris