Saving good things people say about you
SheWrites member Anastasia Ashman added a "what people are saying about me" tab to her FaceBook author/producer page, and asked us, her friends, if we have a place where we store comments we might want to use some day. I do, I said.
Who wouldn't save kudos for a dreary day?
To the left you see some of the responses I got after my book on infant loss was published (1999).
Why share these particular comments now?
The other day I discovered on the Good Reads site that someone named Judith van Parag was credited with writing my book —I couldn't claim authorship. And none of my friends had been able to find the book. But the one and only Good Reads member who read the book did give it a star.
No,not A star, 1 star
One star, while readers on Amazon and Barnes & Noble and Borders gave an average of 4.5* For some unknown reason the positive reviews on Barnes & Noble plus borders disappeared a long time ago.
Why such a low rating? I wondered
So I traced that one Good Reads member. She's a young church going woman with four sons, and one daughter. She gave me one star for my writing and/or Bohemian ways.
One star is all it takes to have a guiding light
While I can't blame anyone for not being crazy about the subtitle of my first book, I know now that those who have lost a baby or know of people who have couldn't even find the title in combination with my name.
To make things worse, I forgot I opened an account in 2007 (the one to the left below) and opened a new one after I made NaNoWriMo friends on Facebook... My email doesn't match, my name is incorrect. And who the hell goes hidden behind that pastel portrait picture again? So you see, I'm in a bit of an obscure la-la-limbo-land.
The good folks at Good Reads and I are trying to solve the problem. And I hope by golly that my book will show more stars than just that one, even though I can, if I try associate it with Ariane Eira, our guiding light.
Have you missed out on anything because your name was spelled incorrectly?
