Thank you to everyone who has reviewed me so far on Amazon.com, Audible.com, Good Reads and Amazon.co.uk. I also really appreciate the blogger and newspaper reviews! I know that you all have busy lives and I'm so touched when you take the time to write a review of my book. As I've said I do read every review and I learn a lot from them, even from the ones where they clearly hate my stuff. ...
Falling Glass has been out one month and although its hard to get in the US I've got 8 reviews so far on Amazon.com, 7 on Audible, 4 on Good Reads and a slightly disappointing 2 on Amazon.co.uk. I haven't received a bad review yet and I really think that if people learned about the novel it would be appreciated by a wider audience. The blog reviews I've found have come from Glenna, Rob, Peter, Shullamuth & Jon - if I missed you do let me know. Special thanks to everyone who reviewed me in in more than one place. I know who you are, you little devils. So again many many thanks to everyone who has taken the trouble to read me and then review me! ...
If there are any other review sites I don't know about please let me know and please if you have an Amazon.co.uk account I'd appreciate your help...it's looking a bit pathetic over there.
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Slainte and go raibh maith agat...
28 comments:
Adrian, I've just added my tuppence worth to amazon.
It was brief - but positive.
A more full review will be sent off to crimesquad.com later today. I'm not sure if it will make it in time for the April upload, but it will get on there eventually.
No sycophancy - you're worth it.
I havent started it yet but will soon. To leave a review on Amazon you need to have bought it through them, which i did.
Hi Adrian,
Check out my reviews blog www.ricsreviews.blogspot.com I haven't read any of your stuff yet but I do plan to.
Frank, I wondered about as I've thought of posting a review there also, bit since I downloaded through Audible I guess I can't.
Adrian, you're welcome (I once knew how to say it in Gaelic butI've forgotten). Might I suggest more book contests as an extra "thank you".
Mike
I appreciate it bro. Every bit helps as I'm discovering.
There are times (quite frequent in my case) when you think about jacking it all in but then you get a little review or a nice email or something and you think, ok, 1 more year...
and then you think about jacking it all in again.
Frank
I appreciate it.
Ricky
Well hold your fire until you do. A lot of people hate my stuff. I seem to inspire love or hate, there doesnt seem to be a lot of middle ground, which is fine by me.
Glenna
I'd love to have more contests. It is an excellent idea in fact but I just cant afford it. The airmail charge is twenty one dollars a book and theres new thing now a 9 dollar National Security Surcharge that the Dept of Homeland Security has imposed on all packages weighing more than 500 grams. Falling Glass in a non padded envelope weighs 530 grams so that means its 30 dollars a book.
I had to send out half a dozen books to bloggers in the US which cost me 180 dollars. After a couple of contests on Declan and Peter's and my own blog and I'm in the hole for nearly 300 dollars. I just can't do it anymore. If I was still based in the US it would be viable but it isnt from here, alas.
Geewiz!!! 30 dollars to mail a book!! That's insane!! It probably cost more to ship than the price of the book in the first place.
I used to buy lots of things from US ebay and other places in America but not anymore as the shipping cost went up by double overnight. It must be what you are talking about.
My library has every one of your books including Hidden River and only two John Steinbeck...i dont know theres no accounting for taste with these library book stockists eh? te he!
Well,people could also order it from Kenny's Bookshop in Galway, which has free shipping worldwide, and currently has it in stock at something like $17.00.
I just put a brief review up on Good Reads and Amazon, which I mention mainly to say that I've only ordered out of print stuff on Amazon and it then lets me review anything else. Apparently, it also lets me review on Amazon.uk, because I pasted the same post over there, and it seems to have accepted it, though they haven't processed it there yet. So give it a shot if you've ever gotten anything through them at all.
I will put up a regular blog post later, for whatever that is worth, with some different things to say about it.
Seana
Thank you for that. I'll check that out the review later in the day. I'm glad you liked the book. I feel its a nice way to end the characters of Michael Forsythe and Killian. (I even have a little cameo of the Gypsy King's successor from The Lighthouse Wars and if I'd figured out a way of putting Alexander Lawson from Hidden River in there too I'd have done that too so that I can draw a line under that whole era of my fiction writing.)
Frankie
the shipping is bad but that National Security Surcharge is killing me.
Glenna
Its cheaper for me just to buy them the book on Amazon and have it delivered.
What? A line under your fiction writing? I don't like the sound of that, unless you're going to start a whole new cycle.
Just got word my copy shipped...Looks like I can tentatively postpone my plan to take hostages at my local post office.
Seana
Certainly this era of fiction writing. These characters, this interlocked series of stories. Done and done.
Matt
Hope you like it.
Adrian,
You write 'em; I'll review 'em. 50 Grand certainly proved that you have more up your sleeve than Irish gangsters. :)
Well, that's okay, just no absolute swearing off, though.
Hello Adrian,
'Falling Glass' is terrific. I`ve been reading a lot of James Lee Burke and Lehane recently and your work is up there.
Have emailed Serpents Tail re the apparent lack of proof reading which did detract but not that much. Superb!
Very Best Wishes,
Chris
Hello Adrian,
'Falling Glass' is terrific. I`ve been reading a lot of James Lee Burke and Lehane recently and your work is up there.
Have emailed Serpents Tail re the apparent lack of proof reading which did detract but not that much. Superb!
Very Best Wishes,
Chris
Tom
If there's ever a second printing we'll do a better job of the copyediting I guarantee that. I'm not really sure what happened this time...
How not to respond to reviews:
Author spits the dummy
Rob
The examples he gives dont look like copyediting mistakes to me, not if she says that in fact they're fine examples of her prose. Sure everyone gets embarrassed by copyediting mistakes (Jonathan Franzens Freedom was initially released with 200 copyediting problems in the UK) but thats not the issue here is it? She's insisting that those are NOT copyediting problems or mistakes but just the way she writes. If thats the case then she's just a really really bad writer.
Just to let you know my review for Falling Glass is now up on crimesquad. Here's the link -
http://www.crimesquad.com/reviews.asp
Mike
Cheers mate, I appreciate it.
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