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There is this review website–which shall remain nameless. (Not the one in Belgium, however.) I sent the website a copy of Mortal Touch<\/i>. Cold, they didn’t require a query, they’re one of the ones that just asks you to send the book.<\/p>\n
From time to time, I check the websites of all the reviewers who have books so far (I coded an html file with all those links, and lots more, so I can just go right down them, click, click, click. I can torture myself more efficiently than anyone I know. The curse of technology!). The quickest way to find a new review on the site is often to use the site’s search box, if it has one, because most of them have all the reviews in categories and my book could fit in any of several different ones.<\/p>\n
Not long ago, on this particular<\/i> site, I searched on “Mortal Touch”–and I got a hit. Whoa, I thought, and checked the page. Well…Mortal Touch<\/i> wasn’t on it. What I was seeing, I quickly determined, was the current version of a page that had just been updated–said so at the top. It was a long list of “books immediately available for review,” in other words, for the volunteer reviewers for this website to select to read. The search engine had obviously returned a cached, older version of the page. There were the two books which, in the snippet of the cached page, came right after Mortal Touch<\/i>…but Mortal Touch<\/i> itself was no longer on the list.<\/p>\n
Which means that someone selected it to read.<\/p>\n
So now I know<\/u> someone is reading Mortal Touch<\/i> for that website…and there’s no review. Not yet. I think the publishing version of “a watched pot never boils” is, “a watched review website never updates its reviews.”<\/p>\n
Could someone just shoot me, please? Thank you so<\/u> much. *whimper*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}