Author Lauren Hough’s Rescinded Award Nomination Is a Reminder That Online Literary Drama Leads Nowhere Good

Whatever it was that Hough posted, Lambda Literary felt she was using her platform “to harmfully engage with readers and critics.” Writers, heed my warning: Resist the urge to harmfully engage with readers and critics!

who, when mulling over whether to give her book a four- or five-star review, opted for four stars. To my complete lack of surprise, the site where these slightly-less-than-glowing reviews appeared—in a sense, the wellspring of Hough’s contentious relationship with online critics—wasA word of advice to all authors: Stay away from Goodreads. Ostensibly, Goodreads, owned by Amazon, is a place where authors can interact with their readers, but.

It’s almost never a good idea for authors to respond to any reviews of their books, but when the reviewers consider themselves to be small fry just trying to share their thoughts with their online friends, the result can be even more volatile than a testy letter to the Times.

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