I am Eva -former refugee, doctor and a writer. My parents were Holocaust survivors, I escaped communism. I wrote a novel, mixing family stories and fiction. A novel about Holocaust, communism, racism and emigration. What makes people leave, and what happens to the ones who do, and to the ones who stay. I believe these old stories are more important now than ever before.
While my book has already been available in the USA since the beginning of
August, it will only be available in the UK on 28th September.
I have spoken to writers friends about Amazon reviews and their pitfalls. Of
course, I would love it if people who read my book could post a review on
Amazon, preferably both sides of the Atlantic ( copy and paste it) and maybe
Goodreads. It could all be the same review.
But there are pitfalls: Amazon apparently remove anything which could be
written by author’s close family members. I am not worrying about that.
But apparently, if there is a rush of reviews on certain dates- like 50
reviews a day, Amazon also removes them.
So I worry.
I worry that the nice people who read my book and want to review it will do
it on the first date available and they would be too many.
So what I am hoping for is a gradual treacle of reviews. I supposed it is
easy to see in “customer reviews” if there are already too many on
that day.
Of course, I am being presumptuous. Maybe nobody will review my book anytime
anywhere.
But I hope that won’t happen.
Retired family doctor, writer. My second book,a family saga about emigration stories from the last 100 years, shows what happens to people who leave and what happens to the ones who stay. In 1939, many of the ones who stayed died. This book is for them. But it's also about life in a communist country, what it is to have a formidable unbearable Holocaust survivor as a mother and yes, about love and many other things. The book is going to be published in September 2021.
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