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The Dark side of reviews: when writing a good or even great story ISN'T enough

11/1/2018

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​When I first started down the road of becoming an Indy Writer, all that I wanted to do was have my readers enjoy my stories and hopefully get to a point where I could write full time for a living. I also was looking forward to being an author. To be part of a comradery or fellowship that I thought would come from a part of a group of people writing and doing what they loved. As a reader, I wanted more of the stories I enjoyed reading. If the stories I wanted weren’t available or being written, then why not write them myself. A win win situation for me. A naïve perspective at the time, to say the least. If I had known the festering cesspool of simmering hate that awaited me upon achieving a modicum of success, I might have chosen a different path. Then again, probably not.
 
Unfortunately, I’ve been learning that just writing a good story is not enough to break into the field of professional writing. You have to write a great story. Even then that might not be enough to get you through the gauntlet of bad reviews from professional authors who brook no intrusion into their sphere of influence from writers who can just weave a good story, editors who ravenously attack any work without perfect grammar and spelling, and jealous Indy Writers that take anyone else’s success as a personal affront.
 
Writing a good story should get you a seat at the table. A good story means that readers are enjoying your inner voice, your writing style and you’re capable of weaving a good story, but that you still have major improvements that need to be learned before you can proceed further. While a great story is a book that you can’t set down. That the story is so good that you rush through the pages eating it up and purchase all of the available books in the series until there is nothing left for you to read.
 
Literature majors and professional editors would have you believe that perfect grammar and spell makes a story. That without it, your story is not worth the paper that it’s printed on. On the forums they vehemently argue that authors like J.K. Rowling of the Harry Potter series, Stephenie Meyer of the Twilight series or Pittacus Lore of the series I am number four, shouldn’t be allowed to publish their works. These people cook every time they see a new release that the author is making millions, since in their minds none of those writers could properly put together a grammatically correct sentence to save their lives.  
 
Just take a moment to think about the level of egotistical, self-importance that would take for a person such as this to have when all logic points to the contrary. Especially when their books aren’t selling and their hated authors’ books are being bought up by the bucket full. My answer to such people, besides the simple ‘they don’t care what you think since they taking home millions every month’ is this. Perfect grammar doesn’t make a mediocre story any better, but it does make an amazing story that much more enjoyable to read.
 
Seriously, who wants to read a boring book? Unless the reader is being forced to read the story due to novel being a requirement for something they need, it’s not going to happen. I don’t even know how this is an argument to tell you the truth. If your story is boring and people don’t want to read it, no amount of perfect literature structure is going to make it any better or more palatable.
 
For new Indy Writers taking their first steps into the field thinking that they accomplished the greatest feat in their lives and successfully completed the impossible task of creating a story and getting self-published, this is just the first of many hurdles. While most new writers never sell their books outside of their closest friends and family, if they do write good enough to get noticed and sell a few hundred or thousand books, that’s when they start receiving the hate reviews from other writers.
 
In my personal experience, this happened when my first book Flight hit the top twenty in its genre. In that same week I was visited with the love of four writers who critiqued my story as if they were doing a book report for their Literature class. Every possible error was high-lighted, every made-up personal affront listed and wrapped up in the bow of either a one or two stars review. Other writers do this in a separate way. Their books are written under a pseudonym name and they use their normal name to leave nasty reviews against their competition. One of my favorites is Meh. That’s how he lists the subject line of every review and he never leaves more than a star.
 
As a new writer seeing this for the first I was quite dumbfounded. After the fourth one, I decided to do a quick search on Amazon and low and behold the answer was there. They were other writers. One of them was angry that their newly released book wasn’t doing as well as the author thought it should have been doing, so he was going around to every book higher than his on the list and leaving bad reviews. I can only figure the others were similarly motivated.
 
Flash forward to my newest series, The World. I’d talked on and off with Aleron Kong of The Chaos Seed series about how much I enjoyed his books and how I wanted to publish my own books on his channel once I got around to releasing them. Due to my wife’s sickness and my desire to release all three books together, this ended up taking a year and a half longer than expected. I couldn’t seem to finish the publishing process while everything was going on in my personal life. Aleron said whenever I got around to releasing the books, I was welcomed to post on his site within the LitRPG community. Sounds great so far, right? Nope, turned out to be a huge mistake.
 
Within five minutes of posting my new book, First Login I was assaulted by Dave Willmarth and his buddies: LitRPGPodcast, Adam Shook and A Man of no Consequence. My back cover’s description looked like a similar plotline to Ascend Online and so they accused me of blatant plagiarism and fifteen minutes later I had nasty reviews left on Amazon and Goodreads. Funny how that is. LitRPGPodcast sounds almost legit if you read his post, but even with my amazing reading speed, I can’t read a three hundred and thirty-eight paged book within fifteen minutes. Two hours after that I was banned from LitRPG.
 
The bombardment of nasty reviews from other writers didn’t stop there. As my series does better and better on the charts as I sell more books, I am constantly receiving nasty reviews. While sometimes they’re valid critiques, the majority of them are just hate left from other writers and even editors. If not for the true fans that enjoy reading a good story, my series would have been pushed aside and drowned in negative reviews. Not from people who are looking for an enjoyable story, but by professional writers who are loath to see their ratings being challenged by some upstart Indy Writer.
 
Searching for a new LitRPG group, I ran across GreatLitRPG, LitRPG, LitRGPsociety, LitRPG Group, LitRPG Podcast. Whenever I went to join, I discovered that they were actually all the same and sponsored/owned by Alternative Realities Publishing (https://alternativerealitiespublishing.wordpress.com/). At the same time, I began getting blog posts and messages about other Indy Writers who had the same experiences. That they were banned as soon as they posted their work on the facebook groups. I even heard that the authors associated with LitRPG tried to ban anyone else from writing within the genre even though they hadn’t started the genre in the first place. It makes me wonder if the invite to these Facebook LitRPG groups is a way for existing authors to knock down any new works that are coming out that could challenge their own works’ success.  
 
As a reader, I find this quite attitude quite disturbing. I want knew authors coming out writing the genre I love to read. I hate waiting six months to a year for books to come out from my favorite authors. Sometimes I want new and creative while other times I just want a comfortable base storyline that I enjoy curling up with to read. Having more books out there isn’t taking away from other authors, because none of the authors I enjoy reading produce a book a day. Even all of the authors I enjoy don’t produce a book in less than six months, so I’m sitting around twiddling my thumbs waiting for something new that I like and am interested in to come out.
 
As an Indy Writer, I find attitudes and practices such as this to be underhanded and dirty. It’s why I say that just writing a good book won’t cut getting through the gauntlet of hate. Only an incredible story has a chance to get the fan responses and ratings needed to cut through the layer of hate that these published writers would use to keep new writers from joining their ranks.
 
Sometimes I’d wish that Amazon would remove the ability of any writer from leaving a review for another. Unfortunately, I know this would not stop the hate that pushes out new writers. While it might make it more difficult for established authors to do their dirty deeds, publishing houses would just setup independent bloggers and podcasters to post the same hateful reviews.
 
Truthfully, if not for the emails, messages and general support from the readers who have greatly enjoyed the story, I would have been pushed out of the LitRPG genre and I would have given up writing further books in my new series. While I do my best to ignore the regular attacks, it does get tiresome at times. Also, it makes it very difficult to get sift through the made-up reviews to find the true criticism left by real readers so I can take those points into consideration for when I’m working on the next book in the series. I do my best to educate readers and new writers in blog posts like this so that maybe when you’re read a book and enjoy the story that you’ll be motivated to post a positive review on Amazon. Still, it takes a thick skin to endure the spiteful hate that comes with the modicum of success I’ve had so far. I can only hope that my series gets out to the point that it can’t be held back by the hate that some published authors are will to bring into the profession. 
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Thomas R
11/2/2018 06:43:34 am

Finished reading through the 3 books of your series 'The World' and I found them to be entertaining. I'll agree with some of your critics when they say that there were some similarities between the first book and Ascend Online, but honestly I didn't think there were too many nor did if feel like plagiarism to me. I mean yes, there was a semi-professional gamer who started the game with friends but started far away from them and found himself fighting much higher level goblins. That being said, the details of the start are much different. I really liked the idea of being able to choose a nightmare start, which I'd not seen in a book before. The land management you briefly discuss in later books is also something less common for litrpg and I'm sure I've never read anything about buying NPCs.

All in all I would say I'm enjoying your books, will continue reading the series, and don't really think you need to change anything. If you are really concerned about being more original you could really develop the land management idea and lean toward a strategy game (which I've never read but may exist somewhere). The other original thing I remember from your books is the morality of having NPCs. I've certainly seen the question of whether or not AI NPCs should be treated as real people a lot, even seen the falling in love with NPCs thing (Alpha World) before, but your take was kinda interesting. Specifically: if playing a game where AI NPCs are tortured and murdered for story has any effect on your morality. Anyway, that struct me as an original though and I enjoyed contemplating it.

P.S. I would say you should read your critical reviews but try not to take them too seriously. I think they could be a great resource for you to improve your writing as you continue, but considering the bias you should take everything with a grain of salt.

P.P.S. I agree in general with your take on grammar and spelling (I'm sure my post has a number of errors), but there is one thing you said that I can't agree with. Stephenie Meyer SHOULD NOT have been allowed to publish. I don't care that her writing was crap, it's her neutering of vampires that I take offense with. They sparkle in sunlight!?!?! Ugh. Also, as an aside, I blame Susan Rice a tiny bit for setting us down a path that allowed for Stephenie Meyer. I mean, she's not directly responsible or anything but she was certainly the first big author to romanticize vampires.

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Jason Cheek link
11/2/2018 08:09:28 am

Thanks for the comment Thomas! I’m glad you enjoyed the story. Book 4 should be out in less than 2 months.

Oh yeah, I can't say I agree with sparkling vampires either. Although, Interview with a Vampire was a favorite book of mine, I agree she opened the door for the sparkles :D

Yeah, I negative reviews always take a certain amount of thick skin to handle but at the same time they can help you improve as a writer. I stay up with every review I hear and do my best to grow better as a writer. The only reviews that truly get to me are the calculated spam that you can get from other writers whose main purpose is not to criticize but to do their best to push your ratings down. For Indy Writers, word of mouth and our online ratings is the main source of our window to new readers.

LitRPG is like any genre, there are a lot of similar components, aka: stats, game messages, starting points, purchasing NPCs, etc. Every component has been used at one time or another, whether in a game or reflected in a story. D.Rus and his Play to Win series is the first known LitRPG that I personally know of. If you ever get a chance, check the stories out. They're lots of fun. Besides, any LitRPG you read is loosely based off of his series.

Probably my biggest creative piece was the whole nightmare start, since NPC purchasing is another of those general components used to one extent or another. I'm trying to change that up slightly by having the ability to rescue NPCs and get additional new NPCs as part of my forces. Kind of like Protos in Starcraft using Dark Archons to grab a hold of another species. If you get those new NPCs as a vassal then you can purchase more of the same type in the NPC Recruiter. Who knows, my use of a true RTS component to the MMORPG might be a new innovation, at least on the reading side. It's hard to say for sure though, since there is so many LitRPG books out and I haven’t read them all.

In this series, I’m not looking for new and innovative like I did with my first two books. I’m looking to write in a genre that I enjoyed using my own twist. I do hope my take on LitRPG is fun, unique and gritty. My take is to make my dream gaming world and explore it with the reader to make a story that pulls you in and doesn’t let you go until you turn the last page leaving you wanting more.

If you haven’t done so yet, I hope you leave a review on https://www.amazon.com/First-Login-World-Book-1-ebook/dp/B07H35XRLZ/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_pdt_img_sims?ie=UTF8#customerReviews It helps my on-going struggles and helps to introduce new readers to my works.

PS: I need to read the rest of the Alpha World series. I did the first book and started on the second and then got distracted and never finished it. Nothing meant in a bad way about the authors work. I loved his first series with the old gamer who was dying of cancer and enjoyed the first book in Alpha World. Unfortunately with my focus on pushing out new books, I won’t be reading anything until December when the new Daniel Black book should be out from E. William Brown.

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Thomas R
11/2/2018 10:32:34 am

I have reviewed the first book now. Sorry I didn't get to it earlier, I really need to be better about that. I read 3-5 books a week and I'm not always good about remembering what I've reviewed, but I always follow authors I like.

I haven't read D. Rus but I picked up the first book of his series and that of E. William Brown. I'm always looking for something new to read. I originally fell into the litrgp genre with the Emerilia Series by Michael Chatfield and have read pretty heavily from it since, while waiting for some of the big name authors to finish up their books. I've given up on Patrick Rothfuss and even Jim Butcher at this point, but I'm hoping Brent Weeks finishes his series next year.

Anyway, I'm following you on Amazon so I'll be sure to keep reading your series. Good luck with everything.

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Jason Cheek link
11/3/2018 03:03:05 am

Hey Thomas, sounds like we have a lot of similar authors in our libraries. I loved Jim Butcher until he went to his new series. I couldn't get into that at all. Then I did some Mercy Thompson (Patricia Briggs). I enjoyed Michael Chatfield's Emerilia Series a lot (up until the last book). His new series The Two Week Curse is great too.

I loved the Daniel Black series. Makes me wish I could be pulled into another ;) I had to deal with an Amazon billing issue on my Kindle Unlimited and it was the perfect time to go through my reading history. Here's a quick and dirty list of some of my favorites:
The Way of the Shaman
Realm of Arkon
Singularity Point G.R.Cooper
Poor Man's Fight (Elliot Kay)
Good Intentions (Elliot Kay)
Adventures on Terra
Omnia Online (Christopher Booth)
Benjamin Ashwood
The Pen and the Sword (Olan Thorensen)
Star Force
The Demon Accords
The Two Week Curse
Portals of Infinity
The Land (Chas Seed)
Paladin of Shadows
Dragon's Wrath (if you can find this anywhere - I think the author died)
Mirror World
Phantom Server
Troy Rising
Warp Marine Corp

I'll check out the names you've posted above. Maybe I'll find something new to read. Also, thanks for adding me to your favorite author list. I should have book 4 out soon and as long as everyone likes the storyline, I'll keep writing on the series. With how it's setup there are lot of PVE, PVP and RTS style action that I can use to keep the story rocking.

Keep in touch.

Jason

Thomas R
11/3/2018 03:11:47 pm

Hey Jason,

Awesome list. I've read a number of them already, big fan of: Poor Man's Fight, Portals of Infinity, and the Land. The author of Portals of Infinity is currently working on a series called Valen's Legacy under a different name. I don't like it as much but it's decent.

For the record, I'm not recommending Patrick Rothfuss. I like his two books, but I have no confidence in him finishing his trilogy (he has caught the George RR Martin bug). Brent Weeks on the other hand is pretty solid. I really liked the Night Angel trilogy and so far like his current series.

Other recommendations:

Will Wight- Traveler's Gate is great and finished, Cradle series is equally good and ongoing
Travis Bagwell- Awaken Online
Charles Dean- War Aeternus
M.H. Johnson- Endless Online
Apollos Thorne- Codename: Freedom

Also, if you're interested in branching out from books there is a comic called The Gamer, which can be read for free at webtoon.com and certainly fits in the genre. Although if you end up giving it a go and don't mind the format, there is a series on there called Tower of God which is far better if not game related.

Thomas

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Jason Cheek link
11/7/2018 01:17:27 pm

Thanks for the list Thomas, I've pulled up the comic and will check that out and your other recommendation. Although, I do try to keep away from writers who go above 7 dollars for an ebook. I'm always like, "Dude, it's a freaking ebook!" whenever I see those 9.99 and 14.99 or even 16.99 ebooks. It's why I keep away from most main stream writers now. Freaking 14.99 & 16.99 for a freaking ebook, I mean really? The others authors, I'm there for those, I think I'll hit the Endless Online once I get finished rereading Play to Live.

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John S.
11/7/2018 12:22:05 pm

I just finished Mixing It Up, and purchased You're Going Down to read tonight. After reading dozens of other LitRPG books the last few months, I think you have an amazing story going on here. I hope you can continue to shrug off the toxic people and make your work better and better!

Some references and typos do get a bit frustrating, but that's just my personal thing, it honestly never took away from wanting to read more. I will definitely be leaving good reviews when I get the time.

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Jason Cheek link
11/7/2018 01:10:54 pm

Hey John,

Thanks for dropping a line and letting me now you like the story. It's the boost that always motivates me to write more.

I will be going through the stories to run a fix on them when I get a chance. It's always a balance though and unfortunately my correction skills are lacking to say the least. I always start getting caught up in the story and boom miss the mistakes. Also, the correction process takes me out of the creation mode, which makes it tough to spend a few hours correcting and a few hours writing.

Also, if you see anything egregious, please don't hesitate to pass it along. I make the changes and upload them immediately.

Thanks, I do my best with the toxicity. I keep away from commenting on those people who leave a one star review for every book complaining about my crappy English. I'm always thinking, if it's so crappy then why did you read all three books?

Good news is that I'm nearly 70k words into book 4 which is probably between the 1/2 to 3/4 mark ... hmmm I guess that would be the 3/5th mark. It's hard to say because I have two more good adventures, the climatic scene and then the epilogue to write. This is definitely going to be over a 100k I'd say. Just so you know, my books tend to be around 88 to 90k words in length.

I took out the repeated character sheets and only showing what's been added or changed in small blocks. I'll put one character sheet at the end. Also, the training session's over, so now it's a focus on the story. I did have to go into the Land Management RTS side of the house and the NPC Recruiter, but I was able to space them out and I think keep the story moving even while going over the information and the planned build out.

Yeah, I'm really excited about the story that I've come up with if you can't tell :)

Also, thanks in advance for reviewing book 1. It's where the trolls usually focus the majority of their hate and every positive review helps the fight.

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Matt
11/7/2018 03:50:12 pm

Loved the books, read them non stop over the last 2 days. Keep up the great work and ignore haters!!

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Jason Cheek link
11/8/2018 03:58:26 am

Thanks for the good words Matt. I'm doing my best to get Book 4 out as soon as possible. If you don't mind helping out, please leave a review on Amazon for book 1 https://www.amazon.com/First-Login-World-Book-1-ebook/dp/B07H35XRLZ/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_pdt_img_sims?ie=UTF8

Jason

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Matt
11/9/2018 12:13:54 pm

Jason,

First, thank you for writing the World Series and I am off to read your last paladin series next.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading the World Series and of the genre I would rate it better than most. The characters, story and dialog which had me laughing out loud at times was solid. It’s fine representation of litrpg genre and any book that can bring a smile, laugh or any emotion response from the story, well, story well written I say.

It’s a reflection of our times the hate that is delivered in some form of digital vomit these days. Bro keep the faith and I look forward to the next book of the world (soon?).

Like the use of devils dogs being a Marine, ooh rah Jason. Oorah.

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Jason Cheek link
11/9/2018 12:43:17 pm

Oorah Matt,

I still support the troops even if OPSEC keeps me on the down-low about it. I want to do more with the Devil Dogs and they're actually a large part of book 4 which is coming along nicely. I'm nearly 70k into the story and still have a lot to cover, so it's going to be a little longer than the other stories. I expect to have it out around the end of the month too :)

Just remember, Flight is the first book I ever written and it's where I cut my teeth so to speak. Destiny is my second novel where I learned not everyone likes a lot of perspective changes, which is why The World is told mostly from the view of the main character.

Yeah, I'm a somewhat bummed out at the LitRPG author community i thought was there. Thankfully, the fans of the genre were supportive of my writing even after the trolls took their shots at me. If you want to help support the fight, please leave a positive review on Amazon for book 1 https://www.amazon.com/First-Login-World-Book-1-ebook/dp/B07H35XRLZ/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_pdt_img_sims?ie=UTF8

Jason

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Brad
11/10/2018 02:10:55 pm

Hi Jason,

First of all I would like to say thanks for a great series. I picked up the first book 7 days ago and just finished book 3 today and cant wait for book 4.

Sorry to hear about the politics within the author community. I kind of sucks to find out (but not surprising) that people let ego and greed get in the way of growing a great genre.

Keep up the good work and know that for every troll who comments there are many fans that dont.

Brad

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Jason Cheek link
11/11/2018 12:29:22 am

Hey Brad,

Thanks for the good word.

I initially wrote this post out of the pure frustration of it all. It's like the IRL bullies reflected in my story that try to ruin everyone's fun for their own gain. Getting the entire incident off my chest and sharing helped clear my mind so I could write.

Hearing from readers that they love the story and are looking forward to book 4 makes it all worthwhile for me, as my wife can attest to heh. Sometimes my writing drives her crazy and she's like, 'time for some family time, put the laptop away.'

Book four is coming along great. I just hit the 80k mark and realized there is still a lot more story to tell. Thankfully, I'm writing well and I should still reach my deadline of the end of this month no problem.

Jason

PS: If you haven't left a review on Amazon for book 1, please do. It helps fight the trolls https://www.amazon.com/First-Login-World-Book-1-ebook/dp/B07H35XRLZ/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_pdt_img_sims?ie=UTF8

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Jeff Dixon
11/14/2018 03:54:17 am

Hi guys,

Had to comment on the author thing...

If you like Elliot Kay, I really suggest Drew Hayes. Anything he's written is a good read. And the narrator for his Fred The Vampire accountant series is spot on.

For SciFi I highly recommend The Tales of Golden Age of the Solar Clipper series by Nathan Lowell. It has become one on my all time favorite goto/comfort series. It's an everyman/slice of life set of stories that are so compelling, you won't want to put it down. Originally released as a podcast by the author.

Jason I'm sorry things are/have been working out for you the way they did/have.
I have some suspicions about sabotage myself and will talk about that with you more when it isn't 2 hours after I finished an email saying I was going to bed....blech.

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Jason Cheek link
11/14/2018 01:33:33 pm

Hey Jeff,

I'm checking the authors out. Yeah, the whole thing sucks with the trolls. I'm now having to prove that my book is mine, since Luke has triggered another attacking direct with Kindle saying my book one is his story. Fun fucking fantastic. At least once I get this resolved, he will have blown his load, but the constant bullshit attacks is tiresome.

Jason

PS: Sorry, just found out about the newest fun 2 hours ago.

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Devlin
2/25/2019 09:06:05 pm

I may be late in commenting on this, but hearing things such as this, which sad as it is to say, it isnt the first I've read of horror stories like this, has diminished my dream to finish my writing. I've got several, well 2, stories I've been working on. But seeing you say, fuck you To ........ these haters (for lack of a better term) is a welcome refresher to make me think that not all authors are such......... vainglorious asshats. And well, they can all eat a bowl of dick, and choke on the nuts

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Jason A Cheek link
2/26/2019 05:29:15 am

Hey Devlin, Thanks for the support. First off let me preface this saying that not every writer is an asshat, albeit it seems to be hard to find the good ones if you know what I mean. They are there though. One that comes to mind is Elliot Kay who was very kind to a new Indy Writer such as myself. I've helped a number of new writers myself and have no problems supporting authors I enjoy reading. Also, I think there are another two or three that are friends on my facebook page that are nice and we chat sometimes. Maybe the actual percentage of actual asshats is small. It's hard to know for sure, but the small group of jealous trolls are so loud and obnoxious that it's difficult not to think everyone is that way.

Personally, I've had my book pulled as being plagiarized, number of nasty reviews left from trolling writers/editors who sometimes even using multiple accounts to drop down my ratings, my blog reported in as a phishing site, my facebook and World of Warcraft account password hacked, playing with flipping through downloads to trigger Amazon's security to try to block my access to Amazon as a writer, a week long media war against me on the LitRPG & GameLIT facebook groups and the Podcast guy doing a special teardown of my book to prove it was all just a copy of his buddies book.

Don't worry, all of that only happens if you actually start making decent sales and are writing good :) Otherwise, the Podcast guy will just dump a nasty rating on your work and move on, since you're not in his circle of friends. As long as your not doing well or say anything back, he moves on. Try to defend yourself and his buddies slam your books even more.

This is why I tell everyone, keep away from announcing your book on those facebook groups. They're just a 'honey pot' for new Indy Writers. If you let them find you, then you at least have some time for your book to build up some reviews on it's own before they visit you with their troll hammer.

Obviously, me announcing out loud what they're doing has made me a target but fuck'em. I hate bullies and will fight them wherever I see them. Best way to fight back though is to talk about it with friends, fans, and leave reviews on all of the books for the authors you love. Even with the number of hits I've had from these guys, the fans who are enjoying the series are enough to keep my stars above 4.2. Don't let it discourage you. I'm first a reader who wants new and goot LitRPG and GameLIT titles from actual gamers that are fun to read.

To be honest, these jealous writers are usuallay doing this because they are not as successful as they'd like everyone to think they are. A check of their actual Kindle rating will show you that, even if they're being sly and sticking their books into 'board games and adaptations' to get their book marked as number one of it's category ;) How funny is that? Hell, no wonder they're not writing well when they're spending all their time trying to bash others instead of, you know, actually writing.

Hopefully you can learn from my mistakes and get a good start on your own book releases. My site has all the good and bad experiences I've gone through and if you need some advice, just drop me an email. I don't do any advertisements on my site. This is just my web presence and a way to share my experiences to help others.

Jason

PS: Please leave a good review or two on my series if you like them. It helps the good fight ;)

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