How I Turned a 1-Star Review Into My Best Day of E-Book Sales

And drowned it out with 5-star reviews

Alex Cooper
The Writing Cooperative
7 min readMay 12, 2021

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The phrase “every cloud has a silver lining” wasn’t the first thing running through my head when I spotted a 1-star review for my first book on Amazon.

Nor was it the second, third, or even fourth — but since said thoughts are unprintable I’ll refrain from sharing.

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