The Bullies of Goodreads

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September 13, 2013

“When you’re an author, you expect that you’re going to get bad reviews. You expect that you may even get extremely bad, unfair reviews. But there is a segment of Goodreads that has gotten completely, utterly out of hand.”

Author Nathan Bransford questions what is the line between taking a bad review and what is online abuse.

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Ashley Perez

Ashley Perez lives, writes, and causes trouble in Los Angeles. She has a strong affinity for tattoos, otters, cat mystery books, and actual cats, but has mixed feelings about pants. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles. She runs the literary site Arts Collide and does work of all varieties for Women Who Submit, Entropy, Jaded Ibis Press, and Why There Are Words. You can find her on Twitter at @ArtsCollide.

One response

Brian Spears

September 13, 2013

We may need to modify the old (in internet time) adage of “don’t read the comments” to include something about avoiding book reviews in places like Goodreads.