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Hi, stu. You probably don't know me. I'm a part-time writer who very much enjoys using this site to help me make my books better. I know that L Avery can be harsh, but she says the words that people need to hear. I know that she takes critiquing very seriously, and really wants to help others better their books. She's not one of those people who run around singing the praises of every single person who can make a coherent sentence.

I understand that you probably poured your heart and soul into your book. Every writer does, and that is what gives a book some potential. First drafts are simply that: drafts. You can't expect to have the next best-seller on your hands after a few mild (or even harsh) edits. You have to hack and slash and basically destroy everything in the book, pick up the pieces, put them together, and if they still don't fit well, repeat the process.

I have never seen Avery purposefully criticize anyone's book out of spite, or because she's in a bad mood, or anything like that. She's real nice.

Could she tone it down a little sometimes? Yes. But beating around the bush isn't what this site is about. People come here for reads, reviews, and help making their book better. Maybe Bookrix should advertise that, but I always assumed that was a given.

I hope you take the time to reconsider your decision before you do something that will haunt you, L Avery Brown, Bookrix, and young writers like me who need people like L Avery to tell us what is wrong with our book and how to fix it. Publishing companies are easier to access/ sell manuscripts to when your book becomes a polished gem. Even diamond aren't perfect at first, they need to be CUT, Sharpened, SANDED, and POLISHED by a gem specialist before they go and get set into a ring or pendant.

Consider Bookrix to be the place where diamonds are cut, and your fellow Bookrixers as fellow gem-cutters. We all have our own techniques and methods to produce the final gemstones, but pulling together and helping each other out with our weakest links makes the entire Bookrix crew better as a whole, enabling us to produce the most sterling gems this world has ever seen.

May God bless you and counsel you in this time,
Geordi.

Hope you pulled your book because you plan to do some serious editing, and not because of some helpfull criticism.

Okay Stu...
I'm here to help you, but First I need to see where you are. You will have to fill in all the blanks before anyone can see your book so we can help edited for you. Once you fill in all the blanks then hit publish to Bookrix. I'll be able to see it since we're friends then I can tell you what to do next.