Dear Diary: Confessions From A Blogger (7) Professional Reviews
We all know what goes on behind the scenes at our own blogs but rarely do we lift the curtain and share those experiences with others. Dear Diary: Confessions From A Blogger stems from the curiosity. This week I want to talk about Professional reviews and why I don't pay attention to them! Here is my Confession: Even before I started blogging, I relied on reviews from sites like Borders, Barnes&Noble and of course Amazon. Sure I read reviews in the newspaper or magazine if I happened to stumble across them but I rarely took them into consideration as I always assumed they were being paid to either praise or trash the book. When I did start blogging I noticed a pattern of certain professional reviewers being quoted over others. One such that always popped up is really well known. Surely, they must be amazing to be quoted so much, I thought. So one day, I typed them into my browser and prepared to read some reviews for books I was really looking forward to. To my s...