Apr. 8th, 2014

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Conversation elsenet at the weekend led to this thought: I want to be a card-carrying member of the "owning your one star reviews" movement. Literally card-carrying. I think it would be highly amusing to have a nice little laminated card with the logo John Scalzi often uses on his posts regarding same, (for example http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/06/19/and-now-some-one-star-reviews-of-redshirts/) that I can take to cons. It would be handy for conversations where someone genuinely believes the world owes them non-stop five star reviews (as opposed to feeling bruised and wanting to whine to friends before moving on).

I am in two minds whether to have choice examples on the reverse of the card itself, or to quote the last couple of paras of the original post at http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/04/24/mmmm-one-star-rific/ and affix a slip of paper with current favourites, which changes from con to con. (The rules of the game are as in the original post -- no mocking the reviewers, or siccing the fanbase onto them. The idea is to accept that 20% of the readers will not like your book, and move on. And maybe enjoy the better crafted examples.)

I shall have to see whether I can prod the colour printer into life before Eastercon. Or maybe just slip a couple of copies into my next order from Moo.

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