Very cool. I like the review that says ‘I like Dan very much, even if he is dead’. Great reviews so far! Do they just read a portion of the book at this stage? Or will those reviewers add more after they finish the book?
Thanks P.T. I’m not sure if the same reviewers continue or if these first stage reviewers hand it off. You guys haven’t seen the full reviews. Amazon only made the nicest parts of the reviews available (in my case). One of my reviewers was a tad more critical than the other — not bad, but enough to make me think he/she might get somewhere in the middle and go “wtf, he’s FISHING now?!” 🙂 But I don’t know, there’s no accounting for taste. I mean, you liked my book right? Haha, I kid. Thanks again man.
Reblogged this on Carol Ervin's Author Site and commented:
DE-lighted for John L Monk, quarter-finalist in Amazon’s Breakthrough Novelist competition! Go, John!
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Great comments–and I thoroughly agree. Is Publisher’s Weekly no longer part of the review process? Formerly, the quarter finalists got a PW review.
I think PW is sponsoring the whole thing, and maybe they are the Vine Reviewers (as well as PW folks?). I missed the details.
Congrats!
Thanks man 🙂
Very cool. I like the review that says ‘I like Dan very much, even if he is dead’. Great reviews so far! Do they just read a portion of the book at this stage? Or will those reviewers add more after they finish the book?
Thanks P.T. I’m not sure if the same reviewers continue or if these first stage reviewers hand it off. You guys haven’t seen the full reviews. Amazon only made the nicest parts of the reviews available (in my case). One of my reviewers was a tad more critical than the other — not bad, but enough to make me think he/she might get somewhere in the middle and go “wtf, he’s FISHING now?!” 🙂 But I don’t know, there’s no accounting for taste. I mean, you liked my book right? Haha, I kid. Thanks again man.
Reblogged this on Carol Ervin's Author Site and commented:
DE-lighted for John L Monk, quarter-finalist in Amazon’s Breakthrough Novelist competition! Go, John!
Thank you for the reblog 🙂
Great feedback, John. I’m delighted for you
Thanks man 🙂