Raine Balkera - Romance Author

Reading is what everyone can do and writing is what some are capable of doing. But, not all writers are capable of doing it correctly. Which is where reader's feedback comes in handy. Honest feedback is essential to our craft and what helps us improve, so it is a necessary evil in our line of work to not only receive reviews but to read them objectively in order to learn from  our   mistakes. I subscribe to BookBub , which alerts me daily to Free and discounted E-books via Amazon, and while I agree with Collette Cameron about the idea of free and cheap being a potential detriment to us authors, I also see it as a way for authors to gain valuable feedback. For a writer, it pays to understand what comprises bad writing in the same way that it pays to read outstanding works of art. We gain by learning from both. The reader, on the other hand, is merely screwed by the purchase and reading of bad writing, but in the long run, so is that...