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Hmmmm. Well, congratulations onf getting them to review your book............. but it looks like all of their 57,000 reviews are five star. They do have a very high helpful review rating though.

Writing's like any other field, many are called few are chosen. Oftentimes, the many who are called but not chosen hate the ones who have been chosen. They deride the success of the best selling authors, criticsizing their writing as trash or junk or worse. Puffing themselves up, they claim that...

I was by nature a bookworm, there really wasn't any one teacher who ispired me to read. It's almost as if it were in my blood. My parents bought me a set of cheap classic novels in paperback and I read most of them fairly quickly. My father bought me a dictionary when I was only six years old...

I share the same birthday as the owner of my favorite piano lounge. Imagine my surprise the first time I walked in on my birthday and saw happy brithday banners and balloons all over the place.

Exactly, sparky. And with so many fantasy genre books out there with the full force of the Big Six publishers behind them, he's in an uphill battle. And that's part of why I doubt the story, if he really were that good, an agent would have picked him up by now and signed him with one of the...

Smashwords: Smashwords Author Brian S. Pratt to Earn over $100,000 in 2011 If they aren't lying about the sales figures, then this is good news for people who want to go the self-pub route. I just have a bad feeling about it though, maybe they aren't lying but it's possible they are fudging...

I read this yesterday when you first posted it, but I was so awestruck I didn't know what to say. He's very eloquent. It's time for me to stop being an anti-elitist and read his book.

. I hope Stephen King and his publisher don't cave into this low life.

Another loser sues a successful author for plagiarism: http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/12/07/StephenKing.pdf Any judge that reads that complaint should be incensed at the plaintiff. This is not even close to plagiarism.

maybe if i wrote more and drank less I would be on that list. If I joined the chorus of counter-culturists who claim, (in a self-decieving manner), that they hate the successful, maybe I wouldn't care. the truth is that these authors have reached out and touched the soul of millions of people...

Middle of the night here, a few too many glasses of wine, and I found myself in this thread of successful authors. Here's an excerpt from Wikipedia about Stephanie Meyer, (author of the Twilight series):

The Amazon review page has 322 five star ratings and 22 one star ratings, which restores my confidence, even if just a little bit, in public reviewers. I avoid reviews for books I haven't read yet because I don't want to stumble across a spoiler, nor do I want my mind to become biased if I...

Just finished Odd Thomas a few minutes ago. I'm almost finished drying my eyes.

There are already two one-star reviews on Amazon from the Amazon Prime people for What the Night Knows. Again, they make their case, but they keep comparing this novel to Koontz's past books. If they genuinely feel that the book is a one-star, then so be it. But it's unfair to trash a book...

Odd Thomas by Koontz. I started reading it at a coffee shop on my way home and I can tell I won't be able to put it down any time soon. It's written like a memoir from an insane person. I busted out laughing three times in the coffee shop and I'm only on page 10.

When I saw it was a CreateSpace book I came in here ready to tear it apart, but frankly it isn't that bad. So, that makes me wonder, why not go through the process of querying agents and/or editors and getting paid an advance, maybe even get on the best seller list? YA is hothothot right now and...

So this Dean Koontz thread has been buried for three years. What a sign of disrespect, I'll have to ressurect it now. I just read my first Koontz novel, Breathless. I loved it, even though the ending was a bit hasty and jumbled. Many readers of the book felt the same way, and they went...

Amazon's amateur book-reviewing becomes vicious free-for-all with readers the victims | Mail Online What a dirty underhanded trick to pull on someone's book.

The sample here is good. Why did you limit your chances of commercial success by going with Tate Publishing? Subsidy publishers rarely produce a best seller. Notice your book on Amazon takes one month to ship and costs $26.

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