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Originally Posted by caleb72
Hence my feeding frenzy remark earlier. 
When you say you might need to stop writing reviews, you mean if I become an author? If so, I have thought about this. I would find it a bit unfortunate because quite a few people have given me feedback that they enjoy my reviews for which I'm grateful and pleasantly shocked.
I don't have another recommendation for the club yet. I seem to be going through less indie fantasy books lately, but I think one is coming up. |
Yes, that is what I meant. It would probably behoove you to be very careful about writing reviews. I still write them, but if I sniff even a whiff of an author who might cause trouble or rabid fans, I pretty much don't review. There's a book by a trad author that I have on my kindle and want to read, but apparently one of my buddies in a cozy group was nearly run off Amazon by fans because she posted a critical review of the latest book (which was actually a couple of books ago now). Well, EVERY time someone in the cozy group rec's the author it brings up the whole hoopla and story gets told again and so on. It's impossible to have a discussion about the series. Since many of the cozy group also hangs out at my blog, well, it's just better if I avoid the entire thing. I don't need the drama.
I haven't really changed my reviewing style and I enjoy reviewing, but I will check for drama before posting some reviews.
In all honesty, I believe Amazon's policy about the writing of reviews by authors was also done because of drama. They didn't go back and delete every review by an author. But where they sniffed out "cliques" of authors trading reviews or reviewing every indie book in sight with five stars...well, there you go. They catch some of them, but honestly people with years of reviewing various products, including books, probably don't have a lot to worry about.
You will get asked as an author to feature books or review books or what-have-you and for me, it is harder to turn down authors now that I am an author. I prefer to feature what I want, not necessarily what is offered to me. I very rarely accept review copies.