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Conversations With Myself (& Hopefully You): Interactions With Authors

This discussion is inspired by two things that happened to me recently. First , I received a comment from an author on my review of her latest book disagreeing with my assessment of the book although not necessarily in a mean way (I don't think?).   Second , I received an email from an author thanking me for my review of his book -- it was very nice but I was surprised by it.  Now, I want to put both of these events into context -- I did not tag either author on twitter or other social media or otherwise try to promote either review (other than the automatic bloglovin tweet that happens with every post) but I did upload feedback to NG/Edelweiss for both books.  Neither review was negative -- both over 3.5 stars but I was definitely surprised and a little startled by both interactions and I wasn't sure how or if to respond.  Now, I know popular bloggers (which I do not proclaim to be) have probably experienced both such events and probably many times over but s...