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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
Well now,
If I put a review on Amazon, it should stay on Amazon. That is the only place I agreed for my words to be used.
If the author bugs me to join another site and post the review there, I get a bit testy.
The exception being if I have told the publisher/author that they can use my review as they like.
I have also removed some less than stellar reviews because I decided they were unfair to the author.
Otherwise I generally leave them unless it is an author behaving very badly.
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Well, my point is, you've posted the review on a public site, where anyone and their brother can see it. If the author posts a link to your review, from her webpage, is that somehow different than if she cites the review directly?
(FWIW, I don't remove less-than-stellar reviews. My attitude is that there are ENTIRELY too many fawning reviews for books that damn sure don't deserve it that a little cold water won't hurt. I've seen remarkably positive reviews for books that are quite appallingly bad. I don't think encouraging that level of "bad" is a good idea, myself. PLUS, there's entirely too much of this "I did the best I could" attitude. I just saw an entire thread of authors
justifying that they didn't have the $$$ for an editor, and
that they shouldn't be expected to be perfect, because they can't afford that. That whole mindset needs to be killed off, IMHO.)
Hitch