Authors asking for reviews: the readers speak out. (And, FYI, they HATE Goodreads.)

So I conducted a highly scientific informal poll of my Tymber’s Trybe and Facebook peeps yesterday. (And a HUGE thank you to everyone who chimed in with their opinions.) The subject was asking about authors requesting reviews from readers. Which led to a side question to the Trybe peeps only about Goodreads and GR groups. … Read More

Monday madness, new release, chatting, and other assorted insanity.

You know, a smart, organized person would have written this post up in advanced and had it scheduled to go live automatically. I am apparently not that person. For starters, I’m chatting over on Goodreads today and tomorrow, on the BDSM group there. It’s a discussion forum kind of format, so you can drop in … Read More

Goodreads: You might not like it, but it’s not censorship.

Goodreads: You might not like it, but it’s not censorship.

Okay, I’m not even going to get into the backstory of what Goodreads did. Regardless of your position on the issue, I agree Goodreads just created themselves a PR nightmare, when they could have done something that made sense like, oh, say, create the ability to have private shelves/reviews so people could stick stuff where … Read More

The sky’s not falling, and Amazon doesn’t (always) eat their young.

I awoke this morning to various views on Amazon’s acquisition of Goodreads, varying in tone from, “Meh,” to, “OHMYGODIT’STHEENDOFTHEWORLD!” And everywhere in between. I tend more toward the “Meh” end of the spectrum myself. Why? Shelfari. Oh, and a little site you might have heard of called IMDb. Yeah, I’ll wait while you go over … Read More