I wanted to take a moment today and spread a little zombie love. MY first YA novel, Never Slow Dance With A Zombie has done extremely well. We are very pleased with the sales; it's been nominated for both a Cyblis and a prestigious ALA Award, AND Talks are percolating around the Never Slow Dance With A Zombie movie. Yowzah! I will talk more about the movie next time.
Today, I wanted to thank all of my blogging friends who held my hand and helped promote my book. I really, really appreciate you: Jill, and Shooting Stars Magazine: Brenda at What Was That, Now; Velvet at VVB Reads, who created the September Zombies blog which featured a lot of me. I want to send a special thank you to my friend Eleni, at La Femme Readers. When I was nervous about bad reviews, Eleni bolstered me with some kind words... and then wrote an awesome review. And a very special thank you to my girl, Amy, at A Park Avenue Princess. She's done so much in the way of support--more than I could ever repay. She hosted an awesome Twitter contest, and offered countless suggestions on how to promote the book and myself. She is a dream.
I also want to thank those of you who gave me bad reviews. It took me a while to come to terms with them, but the truth is, I have learned from those reviews. I have seen things in my own work that I needed to improve. In fact, I pulled back my second novel, Boyfriend From Hell, and did a massive rewrite, all because of what I have learned from your reviews. I just sent it back out last week. So, thank you as well.
Thank you all. I hope those of you who supported me will continue with your support and friendship, and those who didn't--I hope you will give me another chance and read my next book. I am hoping to win you over with my improved writing.
See, Eleni, you were right. Everyone gets some bad reviews. It took me a while to stop being depressed, and use the bad reviews as a learning experience.
Sorry for no links to your awesome sites. I'm working on a different computer (my main computer crashed) and I don't know how to create links on this one. I will learn that as well
And Jill, your book is coming ;-)
Awwwww awesome post E!!! Hope your doing well, and I'm glad those bad reviews helped you :) I look forward to your next book, LOVE the title by the way!
ReplyDeleteWell Eleni is great, bad reviews come with the territory but if you can learn from some and ignore the too crazy haters, you're doing well. :) I'm so glad it's doing well though and I wish I could have done more but I'm definitely open to anything for the next one!!! That would be great to have a movie by the way though. :)
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Sorry, Lauren. I called you Jill. Thanks for the kind words despite me calling you by the wrong name.
ReplyDeleteOh, I didn't even realize! LOL it's quite fine. :)
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Glad to have helped in any way. now I can't wait for the new one. :)
ReplyDeletemwah!
ReplyDeleteguess what's coming next month....
ReplyDeleteNever Slow Dance With A Zombie sounds great! Congratulations! :D
ReplyDeletewandered over here from Velvet's blog and I just have to say: I love the title of your zombie book! And I admire you for how you handle bad reviews.
ReplyDeletethis sounds like an awesome book! i'm glad you've had so much success with it!
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Never Slow Dance With A Zombie sounds fascinating. Off to add it to my wishlist!
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