*hrm*

[ksmith]

Amazon reviews. IknowIshouldn'treadthedamnedthings.

The last two for CoC have been interesting. A two-star who felt that "something exciting was just about to happen, but never quite did." The newest reviewer agrees, but liked CoC enough to give it four stars.

I don't write action adventure. The book is more about the characters. And I left out too much story.

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[naomikritzer]

My husband used to harrass me about my failure to keep track of my Amazon rankings.

I finally explained that I do not ever visit my Amazon pages if I can avoid it, because I always cave and read the reviews, and it's just bad for my mental health. The good reviews mess with my head almost as much as the bad reviews because I'm afraid I'll let them down. The bad reviews just piss me off. So I use Amazon.com to look at OTHER people's books and find out when they're coming out, and as a card-catalog that lets me browse content to see if the book I'm looking at is what I want (I then request it from the library). I occasionally even buy books there. I just try to not remember that my books are even listed. It makes me too crazy.

I wonder if there are sane writers out there who don't have this problem. (I'm not sure I've ever met any.)

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I keep telling myself that the percentage of sales from Amazon is too small for me to worry about. That's one big reason why I haven't pushed to set up my Amazon Connect page.

But those reviews are there, and until writers are able to access their Bookscan numbers, those book pages are the nearest things we have to any sort of realtime indication of how the damned things are doing.