That is so true, Anita. Thanks for stopping by and commenting 🙂

You’re welcome, Rosie.

Thanks T, those points are now incorporated. The one about not knowing what to write is such a good one, and why I included the link to Rosie’s post. That is definitely the other thing that puts people off.

I say this because I remember when, ages ago, I was at a friend’s house, and she was telling me how she loved all my books. But she’d never reviewed one, so I sat her down to do so! She logged onto her favourite of mine, and said, ‘but what do I put?’. She is by no means unintelligent or inarticulate, but hadn’t got a clue what to say. It’s easy for us, we’re writers, but not so much for others. I think that thinking a review has to be a full literary critique is something that puts readers off writing them, too, because they see all the book blogger ones on the Amazon page.

Re what Paula said, if people want to describe the actual plot, they can always put **Spoiler Alert** at the top of it :). I’d rather have a review with spoilers than no review at all!

Oh isn’t that irritating!! I shall add something in about that but this is one of the problems with putting your work out there – anyone can then say anything about it. Thanks so much for stopping by and commenting Paula.

Thanks, Judith. I know the process puts people off so I was hoping to show it’s not as scary or complicated as they think.