When reviewers attack!
Salon has a piece from an author who got negative reviews! It seems kind of whiney, but perhaps it holds some wisdom.
After four years of painstaking work my novel has gotten only two reviews, and they’re both bad. So begins my stages of grief.
It’s ungracious, of course, for authors to dispute bad reviews. Lofty silence is much more dignified. Let the readers decide. The trouble is, thanks to my two bad reviews, there will be no readers, or extremely few. I don’t have that many relatives.