At Least Authors Don’t Act This Badly Over Reviews

Yet.

A small business owner of a wine store publicly called this woman a drug-addicted prostitute over a bad Yelp review, and even started a blog in her name to diss her more over the one star review. The business owner’s first name is Krunch, but I guess that’s not an excuse. LINK

The reviewer had to get a lawyer to get the blog taken down. This is where I chortled…

Kretschmar called Groark’s lawyer, Nov. 21, 2011 and said he would remove his posting if the reviewer would remove her Yelp review of Bottled Grapes.

Heh. But I don’t think it worked.

I’m not going to rage against recent authorial bad review behavior as some others authors are doing (and of course, the reviewers and their reader-followers are in a shark feeding frenzy). A lot of the authors who get publicly upset end up getting chewed up and spat out. It’s unwise to ever do more than perhaps distribute unflattering photos of said reviewer to your (very close) friends and family. Getting all into other’s opinion of your writing is disastrous. All you can do is please yourself and hope others will like what you do. It’s best not to invest too much emotion in other’s opinion of your work. Confident authors, while always striving to improve and accepting constructive critism, merely shake their heads over the pathetic one-star reviewers lack of insight, intelligence, or obvious inebriation, instead of getting mad or getting even.

But I have to admit all the review hubbub and outrage is interesting. Break out the popcorn, pull up a chair, and Krunch away.