My second novel comes out next week and I’ve thought a lot about why sophomore novels are so notoriously debilitating to write (and launch) and I think I’ve figured it out. One of my favorite moments in one of my favorite movies, The Big Sick, has Ray Romano’s character Read More There is some corner of social media that hates them. So let me tell you: books you may think are universally beloved? Aren’t. Sometimes I’m tagged even when the author isn’t, because while the reviewer liked my performance, it’s a bad review of the book (and the good reviewers have learned not to tag the author in negative reviews – seriously, what HEROES). Because of my day job, I get tagged in reviews of other writer’s audiobooks. No book is universally beloved so stop trying to write one that is. So here are some things that help me navigate all that (when I remember to take my own advice): And its corollary: the feeling that your reader is now looking over your shoulder. That authors today are dealing with something authors yesterday did not: the presumption of access. Yet for all the good it may ultimately do, we should at least acknowledge that it’s different. Relentless is a good thing in this ecosystem of content attention. Your publisher wants them to be relentless. But whether the social media reviews are good or bad, it’s the volume of them that can feel particularly relentless. So, this is the way of things now, for better or worse. And while that might not seem like much of a silver lining, then let this be: there are also people who love it and will talk about it so much you’ll wonder who, exactly, is paying them. In a different generation, they just wouldn’t have had an easy way to let you know they hated it. As such, I hate to break it to you, but you’re going to see some really mean comments about your book.īut chin up, because the reality is? There have always been people who hated your book. It is a truth universally acknowledged, a reader in possession of a platform must be in want of an opinion.Īs news desks covering books have disappeared, book bloggers and bookstagrammers and booktokers have proliferated.
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