My ‘Golden Rule’ of reviewing books
It can be like pulling teeth for a lesser-known author to rack up a few precious reviews, and since I can relate to that, I’m all in favor of helping other authors out. What I’m not going to do is rain on their parade with a negative Amazon review that brings down their rating. As my parents taught me: If you’ve got nothing good to say, sometimes it’s better to say nothing at all.
Authors are too eager to exchange sales, profits for this
We authors have an Achilles’ heel that keeps us from generating the kind of profits we could. We often settle for a lesser substitute for sales. Why? Because our peers’ expectations, scammers, and our own ingrained ideas about the industry are all conspiring against us encourage it.