While I'm on the topic of reviews remembered and best forgotten, there's one I just found today that I never knew about until today, and wish I had. (This was all pre-Internet, and I only learned about reviews that my publisher saw fit to send me. Fortunately, Jaz has my back.) Turns out that Spy … Continue reading The Review that Got Away

I had a conversation this afternoon about having a thick skin, and it reminded me of the one really terrible review I got for The Actual Adventures of Michael Missing. It's not really so bad in retrospect, but at the time it felt awful, especially because it came from Kirkus Reviews, which along with Publishers … Continue reading Getting Panned

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