{"id":7597,"date":"2012-07-31T00:41:15","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T05:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=7597"},"modified":"2012-07-31T00:41:15","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T05:41:15","slug":"my-mom-gave-my-book-three-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/my-mom-gave-my-book-three-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"My mom gave my book three stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some people complain about how indie authors hit up their friends and family to give them five-star reviews…well, last week I gave the Createspace proof for Genesis Earth\u00a0<\/strong>to my Mom, and today I noticed that she posted a three-star review for the book on Goodreads. \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n

It’s a cute one, though. \u00a0This is what she said<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Sci-fi is not my genre, but the author is my own son! I read it in 2 days (fast, for me); after page 100, I did not want to put the book down. Had to see what would develop–see the story. I’m hosting the author at home for a few weeks, so it has been fun to discuss his characters, etc. in person. I look forward to more discussion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I posted this on the Kindle Boards<\/a>\u00a0just for laughs, and the guys over there agreed that it’s pretty hilarious. \u00a0A few of them suggested I rate her cooking! \u00a0But don’t worry, Mom, I’d give it at least a 3.5. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

In all seriousness, my Mom’s actually been really supportive of my writing, and I really appreciate that. \u00a0She is a tough (if loving) critic, though, so I’m sure she’ll keep me on my toes.<\/p>\n

The most hilarious thing about this is that her catchphrase growing up was “suffer!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some people complain about how indie authors hit up their friends and family to give them five-star reviews…well, last week I gave the Createspace proof for Genesis Earth\u00a0to my Mom, and today I noticed that she posted a three-star review for the book on Goodreads. \ud83d\ude1b It’s a cute one, though. \u00a0This is what she… Continue reading My mom gave my book three stars<\/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":[32],"tags":[548,133,182,554],"class_list":["post-7597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ge","tag-bad-reviews","tag-family","tag-humor","tag-reviews","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-1Yx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7597","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=7597"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7599,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7597\/revisions\/7599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}