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    >In any case, I cannot stress enough how important it is to do some background on your author and his/her subject. Ideally, it is best to ask for a media brochure from your author or publisher.

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    First, just let me say in my defense that I usually do not review poetry. But, there is no excuse for not doing a little research before beginning your review. This can save you a major embarrassment!

    In my case, I was spared a major embarrassment by a family member who just happened to recognize the subject of my author’s poetry. My author was writing a poetic letter to a person that I just assumed was a fictional character, or was perhaps nature and earth being personified. I was wrong. Had I just googled this person’s name to be sure, I would have easily discovered that this person is an internationally famous writer, poet, and humanitarian.

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    First, just let me say in my defense that I usually do not review poetry. But, there is no excuse for not doing a little research before beginning your review. This can save you a major embarrassment!

    In my case, I was spared a major embarrassment by a family member who just happened to recognize the subject of my author’s poetry. My author was writing a poetic letter to a person that I just assumed was a fictional character, or was perhaps nature and earth being personified. I was wrong. Had I just googled this person’s name to be sure, I would have easily discovered that this person is an internationally famous writer, poet, and humanitarian.

    In any case, I cannot stress enough how important it is to do some background on your author and his/her subject. Ideally, it is best to ask for a media brochure from your author or publisher.

    In summary:

  • Ask for a
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    In my case, I was spared a major embarrassment by a family member who just happened to recognize the subject of my author’s poetry. My author was writing a poetic letter to a person that I just assumed was a fictional character, or was perhaps nature and earth being personified. I was wrong. Had I just googled this person’s name to be sure, I would have easily discovered that this person is an internationally famous writer, poet, and humanitarian.

    In any case, I cannot stress enough how important it is to do some background on your author and his/her subject. Ideally, it is best to ask for a media brochure from your author or publisher.

    In summary:

  • Ask for a
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    r, or was perhaps nature and earth being personified. I was wrong. Had I just googled this person’s name to be sure, I would have easily discovered that this person is an internationally famous writer, poet, and humanitarian.

    In any case, I cannot stress enough how important it is to do some background on your author and his/her subject. Ideally, it is best to ask for a media brochure from your author or publisher.

    In summary:

  • Ask for a
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    >In any case, I cannot stress enough how important it is to do some background on your author and his/her subject. Ideally, it is best to ask for a media brochure from your author or publisher.

    In summary:

  • Ask for a media brochure from the author/publisher.
  • Google your author
  • Google your author’s subject
  • Let someone else read your reviews before publishing them
  • Like pulling a band-aid off a scrape, I quickly emailed my author and apologized for my ignorance and lack of research. I have since retracted some of my words in the review and have had to re-print my newsletter before sending it out to my readers; but I would rather find out now that I had made a mistake, than after my audience could see how stupid I am. After all, if only one person could pick out this error, imagine how many other readers more worldly than I, could see this error too?!

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