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September 1st: What's the biggest mistake you made as a newbie blogger? (Courtesy of Roberta@Offbeat YA)
September 1st: What's the biggest mistake you made as a newbie blogger? (Courtesy of Roberta@Offbeat YA)
Letting authors bully me, accepting too many books.
I am sure many of my earlier reviews should have been 1s. I still remember this book that sucked so much, ugh, but I let the author bully me cos I was intimidated. Which is why I still do this day sometimes balk at self pubbed work.
Then there was this author who kept pestering me about making the review a 5, I had to block him everywhere. But as a newbie it is hard saying no, and not being afraid.
I also accepted everything, and then I learned to accept what I actually seemed to like
Oh oh! My blog title, sigh, did not think there
I totally agree, I just did a post last week about things I did wrong during the first years of my blog. I just couldn’t say no sometimes, I was always afraid I’d offend someone. Now I can happily say no!
ReplyDeleteYeah accepting everything was a mistake for me as well.
ReplyDeleteI had once an author whu bullied me because if a comment I made on a review...
It is hard saying no when you're trying to build a following but you're right to say no now and not let authors or anyone bully you!! I LOVE your blog xo
ReplyDeleteYeah, I took on too many books, too. And accepted author's requests when I shouldn't have. Oh, my earlier reviews...ack! Not that my current reviews are so wonderful. They're probably worse, lol! I just don't have the energy to give that much to them. :)
ReplyDeleteOooh I wanted to do this one! SO many mistakes in hindsight lol
ReplyDeleteBut live & learn!
Karen @ For What It's Worth
Oooo those authors. That is soooo wrong of them and so unethical to bully people. :/
ReplyDeleteAuthors behaving badly sometimes :(
ReplyDeleteYuck a bully author. The worst and to be avoided!
ReplyDeleteNow I want to totally LOL... you did the wrong week and the post you did do is about making mistakes. SO PERFECT!! <3 I still take on too many books. *sigh*
ReplyDeleteI was shocked the first time an author tried to talk me out of my review rating and argued with what I said, but I've toughed up since then. I've gotten better at saying no, but still need to improve on it.
ReplyDeleteUgh that makes me so mad, hearing authors take advantage of newbie bloggers, knowing they would have a hard time saying no :(
ReplyDelete~Mogsy @ BiblioSanctum
Heather
ReplyDeleteNow I just ignore :D No time for that which I do not want
Melliane
Ugh some authors!
Say no the books was a hard lesson to learn
reading f
Thank you!!
Rachel
Early reviews, ugh. I am not going back to look, lol
We live and learn to say no :D
Karen
U have time since I made a mistake, wrong week *headdesk*
Carole
Books are babies! *eyeroll*
Greg
ReplyDeleteYeah :/
Kathryn
It has been a while since my last
Jen
Omg I know right! What went wrong! LOL
Sophia
I guess no will always be hard, but at least now I know how to
Biblio
And there will always be newbies :(