Soon after I published my novel, Forget to Remember, it received a one-star review on Amazon. The woman who wrote the review had not purchased the book. She had not read the book, other than a few paragraphs on the Amazon page.
At the beginning of the book Carol Golden, the protagonist, is found in a dumpster near death. Several days later she is going to be visited in the hospital by the male paramedics who took her there and she is concerned abut how awful she looks.
The woman who wrote the “review” stated that I knew nothing about women. A woman who was in the hospital wouldn’t care how she looks. That reminded me of an event that happened many years ago when I was single.
I was dating a woman with a friend who had joined a convent. One day she persuaded me to drive her to the convent so that she could visit her friend. We went into the reception area and waited for her friend to appear.
When the young woman, who was still a novice, entered the room expecting to find only her female friend, she took one look at me and immediately apologized for not wearing makeup.
Forget to Remember is my best-selling book of all time, and I went on to write six sequels to it.
Writers have told me they have trouble writing in the first person. I find it natural.
I believe you just had a buyer who was just disappointed, thinking your book was about something else. Glad that that book has become a bestseller.
Ron