I would have thought this was obvious, but apparently it needs to be said: if I read your ARC and didn’t review it, odds are I had nothing good to say and was trying to be nice.
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RT @jsxtn83
Since a friend mentioned it -yet again- when sending me an ARC last night, let me remind #bookbloggers & other #bookreview ppl:
Accepting an #ARC & not leaving a review is THEFT. Maybe not legally, but *certainly* ethically.
#writingcommunity #bo…
https://twitter.com/jsxtn83/status/1644288224720834560
People have been dunking on this guy’s tweet, and quite rightly, but not enough has been said about his implicit assumption that “review”=“good review”. That’s not criticism, it’s PR, and it’ll cost you a lot more than a free PDF.