Some of you may wonder why I get so doggone excited when I find a new Cozy Mystery author to follow. Well, there’s a very simple answer…<\/p>\n
From time to time, I go through a “try new authors<\/strong>” phase… I read cozies by authors\u00a0with whom I’m not familiar. I check out what other people have to say about the author, but ultimately, I decide for myself if the author might be someone I would enjoy reading.<\/p>\n I am not swayed by people who never<\/strong> write a negative review about a book or author. I mean, when 4 stars is the very lowest Amazon rating you ever see by a reviewer, it sort of cheapens the person’s reviews. I don’t even read those comments. (And, unfortunately, I don’t like seeing those 4-star-or-over reviewers on the back of a paperback mystery or on an author’s site… I get the same “avoidance” feeling, which I am sometimes<\/span> able to overcome.)<\/p>\n I actually saw a person post an entry once who admitted to “having to find positive things about a book” he\/she was reading to review. What?!?!<\/p>\n I don’t post negative comments, but I do post positive, only when I truly feel positive about a book or author. Because of this, the authors\/books that I truly do not like, I simply don’t mention. I don’t know if that’s fair, but that is what I choose to do. I won’t go out of my way “to find positive things about a book” just for that purpose.<\/p>\n Better to be positive than to have to find<\/strong> something positive…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some of you may wonder why I get so doggone excited when I find a new Cozy Mystery author to follow. Well, there’s a very simple answer… From time to time, I go through a “try new authors” phase… I read cozies by authors\u00a0with whom I’m not familiar. I check out what other people have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cozy-mystery-administrators-observations","7":"entry","8":"override"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pI0sr-qn","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}