{"id":5775,"date":"2011-08-08T16:27:56","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T22:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=5775"},"modified":"2011-08-08T16:44:19","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T22:44:19","slug":"breaking-the-top-10-and-a-big-thank-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/breaking-the-top-10-and-a-big-thank-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking the Top 10, and a big thank you"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"As I’m writing this, “Memoirs of a Snowflake<\/a>” holds the #8 spot in the Kindle Store for the general short story category — #150 overall. \u00a0Almost 1,000 people have downloaded it since it went free over the weekend, and it’s already garnered some fantastic reviews!<\/p>\n

All this positive attention makes me want to thank all those who have taken the time to post reviews of my work, so I thought I’d do that here.<\/p>\n

Specifically, I’d like to thank L. Christensen<\/a> for the early 5-star review of Genesis Earth,<\/em>\u00a0and her very favorable reviews of my other work. \u00a0Full disclosure: L. Christensen is one of my first readers; however, I did not solicit any of her reviews–she posted them on her own. \u00a0Also, I’d like to thank Katie Armstrong<\/a> for the other 5-star review of\u00a0Genesis Earth<\/em>–I have no idea who you are (well, a vague idea maybe), but thank you!<\/p>\n

Another reviewer who’s been very kind is EA Younker<\/a> over at goodreads. \u00a0She’s posted some glowing 5-star reviews for “Memoirs of a Snowflake” and “Decision LZ1527” on that site, as well as a more critical but still encouraging 3-star review for “From the Ice Incarnate.” Thanks for taking the time to read my work! \u00a0I’m glad you enjoyed it.<\/p>\n

Over on Smashwords, Ernest Winchester<\/a> posted a nice 5-star review of “Decision LZ1527,” only a couple hours after I uploaded it. \u00a0More recently, Michelle Glorioso<\/a>\u00a0and Annie B<\/a> posted some extremely gratifying reviews of “Memoirs of a Snowflake.” Thanks so much!<\/p>\n

Of course, not all the reviews have been glowingly positive. “From the Ice Incarnate” has garnered some criticism from readers who feel that it was missing something, either sufficient character depth or a satisfying ending. \u00a0I appreciate the feedback; short stories aren’t my forte, so I’ll be sure to keep that in mind as I work on my short form. \u00a0Also, Genesis Earth<\/em>\u00a0has garnered a couple of critical yet well-reasoned reviews, most notably from the review site Science Fiction Addiction<\/a>. \u00a0Once again, thanks for taking the time to respond so thoughtfully. \u00a0And thanks to all the other generally positive reviews which I haven’t mentioned specifically here.<\/p>\n

So far, Bringing Stella Home<\/em>\u00a0hasn’t gotten any reviews, so if you’ve read it and enjoyed it, I would appreciate it very much if you would take the time to do that. \u00a0In the meantime, thanks for all your support!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I’m writing this, “Memoirs of a Snowflake” holds the #8 spot in the Kindle Store for the general short story category — #150 overall. \u00a0Almost 1,000 people have downloaded it since it went free over the weekend, and it’s already garnered some fantastic reviews! All this positive attention makes me want to thank all… Continue reading Breaking the Top 10, and a big thank you<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[68,32,170],"tags":[548,252,547,554,63],"class_list":["post-5775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bsh","category-ge","category-short-stories","tag-bad-reviews","tag-criticism","tag-ebook-formatting","tag-reviews","tag-triumphs","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-1v9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5775"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5793,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5775\/revisions\/5793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}