Resolution for a new year : Misha Herwin
My New Year’s resolution has nothing to do with self-improvement
- I’m not going to give up dairy, or gluten, or exercise more often, or take up
yoga- but a great deal to do with enjoyment.
Simply: I am going to read more books. Last year was a
bad year. I didn’t even managed a book a week, while the year before was golden
with over one hundred read. Quite why I’ve denied myself the pleasure of
becoming absorbed in a book I’m not sure, but I suspect there was too much
watching not very good stuff on TV.
Hand in hand with the reading will come the reviewing.
No more downloads from Amazon that will be enjoyed but not commented on. Every
book by a new, self-published, or published by a small press writer will be
reviewed, with the caveat that the truly dreadful will be consigned to the to-be-read
pile where they will remain until they have been forgotten.
Good books, however, deserve a wider audience. There’s
a meme currently on FB about sharing the love. You read, you review and make
the writer happy.
Making people happy is good, it warms the cockles of
the heart, makes you smile. It sounds crazy but posting a good review does make
me feel better as for getting a good review that is the most amazing feeling.
It’s not only the feel good factor, however. The
number of reviews make a difference to the way in which Amazon promotes the
writer. Over twenty and you reach the point of being placed in the “customers
who bought this item, also bought” category.
Twenty reviews does not sound many, but people forget,
or can’t be bothered, or don’t know how, so you may have many downloads but few
reviews.
So, I resolve to do my bit for my fellow authors in
2018. And if you would like to do the same for me, “Shadows on the Grass” is
now available on Kindle. HERE
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