Writer Advice: How to deal with Review Assassins

monsterhunternation, Declan Finn's blog ^ | 05/12/2021 | Declan Finn

[tbw2]

While this article is focused on "review extortion" and negative review bombing of conservative books, it can be applied to conservative businesses getting a bunch of fake bad reviews, too.

Excerpt

Whoever wrote this needs to learn to not negotiate with terrorists. Then when the attacks happen (and they will) you learn to use those attacks as a marketing weapon yourself and turn that energy around for your own benefit.

I’ve had repeated organized review bombs against me. That’s one reason I got to those millions of books sold. Obvious bad spam reviews motivate your fans to counter them and spread the word. When you get those bullshit reviews, embrace them. Mock them. Celebrate them. Because it means you pissed people off. When you panic, it just makes the attackers stronger. When you point and laugh and bring your fans in to point and laugh, they tell their friends and it turns into something fun.

It don’t matter. The harder the attack, the more energy you can use to turn it around on them.

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Writer Advice: How to deal with Review Assassins
https://monsterhunternation.com/2021/05/12/writer-advice-how-to-deal-with-review-assassins/

[NEMDF]

Why is this excerpted, if it is from a blog?

[P-Marlowe]

I always judge whether I want to read a book by reading the one star reviews. If the right people hate it, then it’s a book I might want to read.

[tbw2]

I thought you weren’t supposed to scrape someone’s content and paste it here.

[tbw2]

No, it isn’t my blog.

[MightyMama]

Dunno, but I highly recommend Larry Correia, and I’m going to buy some of Finn’s books on my next paycheck. Correia’s basically Andrew Breitbart if he wrote sci-fi and fantasy. Especially the “Happy Warrior” part. He was the impetus behind the original Sad Puppies campaign, which upset a lot of the right people. :)