My First Review

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006 @ 12:35 pm | Alien Communion, An Author's Life

So they say that once you’ve been released, it’s a good idea to Google your name periodically, to find out who’s talking about you. Since Alien Communion is my first release, I know I won’t be showing up many places yet - I’m a relative n00b and quite unknown still. So I took that advice to periodically Google my name.

Periodically being every five minutes during the day, and sometimes in the middle of the night when I get up to pee.

Imagine my surprise when I found out my name had appeared somewhere! I found I’d been reviewed by Euro-Reviews, and called Mr. Xandra to tell him.

Mr. Xandra, being the pragmatic and connected soul that he is, read the review and said, “So…does this mean you’re big in Germany? Y’know, like David Hassellhoff?”

“Honey, I think they’re in the Netherlands. All their ads are in Dutch.” See, I can tell this, because it says, “Reviews in Dutch” right on the front page.

But then, Mr. Xandra is persistently distracted by my cover on a regular basis. “Think there’s more than a passing resemblance to the hero?” he asks.

“Only the horns, my love.”

But you aren’t here to read the rest of that conversation (and no, I’m not sharing! My mom reads this blog…or so she says…) - see a select bit of what Annie at Euro-Reviews has to say:

“I really enjoyed this book and yes, it will be a re-reader. I highly recommend it, and I believe it will appeal to many more readers than just those who prefer Futuristic or SciFi genres.” — Annie, Euro-Reviews

3 Responses to “My First Review”

  1. Jennette Says:

    Congrats on the nice review! I have to get this book…

  2. Eveline (Euro-Reviews) Says:

    HI Xandra!

    I am the owner of Euro-Reviews and saw people coming from your page to mine so I dropped by and read your post on this blog.

    I am from Belgium not The Netherlands, not Germany but ofcourse that can be confusing as they speak Dutch in the Netherlands as well, and the website (.de at the end) is on a German server lol but I am Belgian and so are a couple of our other reviewers. Annie is one of our American reviewers though. (as they are more into Ebooks than Europeans)

    Honoured that we gave you your first review and I’ll sure show your post to Annie as well.

    Good luck with the other reviews ;)

    Eveline

  3. Annie Says:

    Xandra,

    I am deeply honoured that you mentioned my review in your blog! I loved Alien Communion and plan to continue to tell everyone to read it! Just yesterday I was thinking, it’s time to reread it!

    Thanks so much for mentioning Euro-Reviews; it’s a wonderful site and the folks are just excellent. Euro-Reviews gave me my start at reviewing, so that now I have access to so many great books! Best wishes on your writing career!

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