As an author, we struggle daily to dip into the creative well. But, when people start poisoning that well with harassing reviews, the motivation dries up faster than a star forge on full blast.

Some bad reviews are expected and understood, as no author can cater to every individual who reads their content. However, I have found a small subsect recently that appears to enjoy providing half-star reviews. This would be fine if they were handled, but apparently, that doesn’t happen anymore if it ever did.

As an author, I will no longer pay a fee to this site to have someone blatantly violate the review rules and get away with it. Nothing more toxic than telling people this story is evil because the greedy author won’t give everything away for free. Especially when you make such a statement in the worst economic downturn of the past few decades.