Shadow Kisses: Weekly Memes

The Dirty Truth: A Meme for Authors

The time has come for Shadow Kisses to host its own meme! I love giving author interviews but I have noticed that a lot of us "review blogger" types tend to shy away from questions that pry too much or talk about the down side of writing. As an aspiring writer myself I know that being an author is not all rainbows and sunshine, so I have designed this meme to focus on those personal questions we never ask authors. The Dirty Truth is a weekly meme where I ask authors one of those personal questions. The meme is posted at the beginning of the week but you can participate all week long, just link up!

Every week I will feature one author and show their answer to the question!

Want to be the next featured author? Contact me at deaton.cassie(at)yahoo(dot)com

To Participate:

1. Be an author or writer (you do not have to be published)

2. Answer the question below in a post on your site (or in the comments if you do not have a blog)

3. Grab the button code and include it in your post :)

4. Add your post to the linky or leave it in the comments on this weeks question, and be sure to visit other's posts!

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This weeks question:

How do you react to a bad review of one of your books?

This weeks featured Author: Patricia Lynne
Author of Being Human

Answer: I've only had one bad review so far, a two star from a friend on Goodreads. I had been hoping for at least 3 stars because that's not always bad. Anyways, I got through his whole review (which was thorough and he warned me he was critical in all his reviews) and pouted. Then I texted my husband who was with his co-worker and another friend drinking and playing games and asked them to come get me. I pouted a little more privately to a few people while waiting for hubby to come get me. Showed him the review before heading back over to his co-worker's place where I got drunk. Not insanely drunk, but nice and happy drunk where I no longer cared about the two star review. It worked out pretty good because when I woke up sober the next day, all my pouting and sadness over the review had been purged and I looked at the two stars more like a badge of honor. All authors get bad reviews and I was proud of my first one.

To read more about Patricia and her books, visit Here

I was lucky enough to read Patricia's book, Being Human and LOVED it. No two star review for me :) I gave it 5 out of 5! Read my review and an interview with Partricia Here

Be sure to link up and visit other authors!
Thanks for stopping by :)

Past Dirty Truth Meme's

Dirty Truth Week One. Question: Do you admire your own work?

These are links to Memes I try to participate in each week. Click the links to read more about each Meme and meet the host!

What is a Meme? A meme is a weekly event hosted by blogs to help engage and get to know other readers and bloggers. The purpose is to help connect the online community.

Mondays:

Musing Mondays … is a weekly event where MizB will ask a book/reading-related question, and you answer with your own thoughts on the topic.

It's Monday! What are you reading? ...this is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well.

Tuesdays:

Teaser Tuesdays … is a weekly meme where you share two (2) “teaser” sentences from your current read to try to entice others to want to seek it out.

Top Ten Tuesday...Each week The Broke and the Bookish will post a new Top Ten list that one of their bloggers at The Broke and the Bookish will answer.

Thursdays:

Dirty Little Secret Meme ...Under the Covers get to know other bloggers and readers more intimately by asking them a question hoping to reveal their dirty little secrets.