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Originally Posted by Blossom
There are a few authors out there that have been contacting people who leave bad reviews. I stop reviewing and removed several reviews on Good Reads after a author contacted me.
I agree it's creepy.
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I've pretty much done the same thing. I was contacted by two different authors and now I usually only rate with no review. What got me is that both of them were 3-star reviews, so it's not like I trashed the books. I realize that this is the age of information and accessibility, but that does not excuse acting in poor taste which, in my opinion, is what they are doing.
There's a post on a blog somewhere by an author talking about how authors are sensitive people and that others should keep that in mind, and so on. Yeah, I'll keep that in mind when deciding who to spend my money on, and it won't be the ones who publicly cry over a bad review. I don't have the energy to deal with that.