Last week I did a post on the necessity of getting feedback on your book from beta readers and/or professional editors in a developmental edit, but what if you get negative feedback or criticism? How to deal with criticism of your book? Feedback you take as criticism can make you very disappointed, depressed, even devastated. I totally understand this because I've written a couple of books that I've archived, and probably will never finish, because the feedback from my beta readers indicated that the books had serious flaws, ones I couldn't fix easily, ones that would take more time to fix than I was prepared to put in on the project. Getting that kind of feedback is always disappointing, but we need to be prepared for it because the aim of having it read by a beta reader or developmental editor is that they point out the flaws in our book so we can improve it.  Even if you don't feel that your beta readers or developmental editor has criticised your work, as an author you can be … [Read more...]