Positivity

For some writers, it’s not even really about getting us a gift. Like last time, for a lot of us, we just really want to have some time to hang out with you. Just you.

This time though, it’s a little more close to home. This is something that for some reason, we have a hard time getting people to do. Even our closest friends and family don’t want to do it, find themselves far too busy to go online and do this one simple thing for us, to help us out.

Read their book, and review it. Positively.

One of the greatest things anyone can give a writer is a positive review of their work. Critique is okay too, but as our friend, please don’t harshly critique our already released work, especially publicly. If there’s a problem with a story and you happen to have been a beta reader, tell us about the problem before it’s about to be released. Give us time to fix it. And when it is released, read it. Then go online and leave as many reviews as you can on as many sites as you can.

I know, it sounds a little weird that this would be a Christmas present, but honestly thought out gifts are like that.

Writers want their work to shine. We all do. We want people to read our work and see it for what we meant it to be. You going online and leaving ten reviews is like opening up your wallet and giving us a million dollars on the spot. We’re so grateful, so thankful, both that you read the book and that you were kind and generous enough to go online and leave reviews.

Everyone does this. We go online and read the reviews before we’ll buy anything. So then, why don’t you want to write reviews of your friend’s work? Don’t you want us to make more sales, to have people across the world reading our work? It’s what we want, you know. And you should be the ones backing us up.

You have no excuses. I know you think you do, because I’ve heard a lot of them. But you really don’t have any at all.

You read their book already, didn’t you?

If you haven’t, you really should.

And if you haven’t left a review somewhere, go do it. Write a different review for each site, an honest and positive review about the book, and show us. Tell us that’s our Christmas present.

I promise, it’ll be better in our eyes than most of the things you’ve thought of thus far.

[love]

{Rani D.}