Me, every time I get a shitty review... #WLW #Sapphic #author stuff #uk crime author - ThreadSky

carihunter.bsky.social • 463 days ago

Me, every time I get a shitty review...
#WLW #Sapphic #author stuff #uk crime author

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Me: Go read sapphic crime author Cari Hunter’s books.

Them: Where should I start?

Me: My favorites are the stand-alone thriller “Unbreakable” or the latest one “A Calculated Risk”
or
The Dark Peak series:
-No Good Reason (Book 1)
-Cold to the Touch (Book 2)
-A Quiet Death (Book 3)

Sapphic Books

grumpypixel.bsky.social•462 days ago

Love your books.
Nothing more to add.
Okay one more thing to add, my wife introduced me to your books, she is from Scotland and is absolutely into your books.

carihunter.bsky.social•462 days ago

Tell your wife thank you kindly 😊 If she has any entertaining Scottish phrases for Ms. Isla Munro (A Calculated Risk) feel free to throw them in my direction.

grumpypixel.bsky.social•462 days ago

Will do ☺️

judeinthestars.bsky.social•463 days ago

I shouldn't be surprised that you get shitty reviews because all authors do but how dare they?

carihunter.bsky.social•463 days ago

Ha! I get my share. Main themes: "I chose a crime book and I am pissed off it is not a romance." "I am an AMURRRICAN and cannot cope with anything not written in AMURRRICAN." "I hate acronyms and uh...plot." And occasionally: "GAY 😱" (when they've got me mixed up with Cara Hunter 😆)

mariesotiriou.bsky.social•463 days ago

Hey, I am an Amurrrican and I love your books! I am from New Jersey though and we don’t really speak American here either😆

carihunter.bsky.social•463 days ago

I have a lot of very wonderful US readers who take great delight in being fluent at northern English swearing. And then there are the indignant minority who think everyone should write in their standard vernacular and those people, quite frankly, can please go and read something else.

mariesotiriou.bsky.social•463 days ago

Cari, Oh by the way … last week I went to an event here in New Jersey where the sapphic crime author Ann Aptaker spoke.

Afterwards, I talked to her about other sapphic crime authors and she spoke very highly of you.

judeinthestars.bsky.social•463 days ago

People 🤷🏻

dangerwookiee.bsky.social•463 days ago

Some people just have no taste - I've absolutely loved reading your books.

carihunter.bsky.social•463 days ago

Thank you! 😊 I do read my reviews, for better or for worse. A bad one might linger for a while if it's sensible, but the ones that say more about the reviewer than the book are like water off a duck's back.

dangerwookiee.bsky.social•463 days ago

Well I have nothing but good things to say about your books, although, listening to the Dark Peak series on audible did give me constant cravings for tea and biscuits... But that isn't a bad thing!

Snowbound is the next up to read 🙂

carihunter.bsky.social•462 days ago

Snacky cravings are NEVER a bad thing! Oh, if you're listening to the books, Snowbound has a different narrator to all my others. Some people have got on well with her...I never made it past the sample 😬

grumpypixel.bsky.social•462 days ago

I really like Snowbound as a book, but it is the only one of your books I haven't on audible, because I couldn't made it past the sample as well.

carihunter.bsky.social•462 days ago

Yeah, I've never listened to it. I am SO grateful that BSB accidentally found Nicki for the rest of mine (she'd originally auditioned for another BSB author). I think we've grown together as we've gone along. I'm a better author than I was and she's hit her stride and then some as a narrator.

dangerwookiee.bsky.social•462 days ago

Thanks for the warning, but I have Snowbound and Desolation Point on ebook 👍

carihunter.bsky.social•462 days ago

That's probably for the best! I'm fond of both books but they are very obviously early novels and I'd change a ton of things if I had my time over. The audio of Tumbledown is better than DP, mainly because Sarah is cute as a button in it.

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