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Hi guys,
I have a question about book reviewing & I hope someone can answer this. I've been sent a book to review that's really bad. There are no redeeming qualities to this book at all! I really don't want to write a bad review. Can I email the author, tell her what's wrong (and suggest that she edit it or get an editor) and then give her the choice of my reviewing it? Maybe I should just tell her I can't review it? I'm confused on this point. I hope someone can help me here.
Deb :-)
I have a question about book reviewing & I hope someone can answer this. I've been sent a book to review that's really bad. There are no redeeming qualities to this book at all! I really don't want to write a bad review. Can I email the author, tell her what's wrong (and suggest that she edit it or get an editor) and then give her the choice of my reviewing it? Maybe I should just tell her I can't review it? I'm confused on this point. I hope someone can help me here.
Deb :-)
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Permalink Reply by Ron Kruger on -
As we age we realize that our integrity is our most important assest. Tell her the truth. That's better than a bad review, and you may be doing her a favor, whether she thinks so or not. Try to be diplomatic, but honest.
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Permalink Reply by Joel Friedlander on
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I think in that situation I would decline to review the book and explain privately to the author/publisher why I had chosen to do so. Just seems to me that no one would be helped in a positive way by doing the review. Who would benefit?
Also depends I guess on how well you know the person, Deb.
Hope that helps
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Paper War
I've been waging a war on paper the last few days. So far, paper is winning. The more I clean up, the more of it I find. The problem is, for much of it, I feel an obligation to do a thorough examination and decide whether or not it's worth keeping.The mailperson is my enemy. He, sometimes she, keeps leaving more paper in my mail box. I'm not talking about my Christmas cards, which I cherish, but all the other stuff dropped off for me to sort out. At times it's torture to come home and see the new pile the DH has set on the kitchen table.
I've discovered tons of magazines over a year old. They were trying to hide in a magazine holder on the side of the couch, but not doing a good job of it, since they were spilling over. Of course, I decided to check the headings on the covers to see if some of the information inside might prove valuable. Wouldn't you know it, I was right. Many articles seemed to good to give up.
I've already mentioned here before about how I also have a compulsion to print out emails that seem important to me. The result is I have lots of important pieces of paper. When there's an abundance, which is the most important? And, where's the one I really need? It is a quandary.
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