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Handling Negative Reviews | Carleigh Bodrug

26 Jul 2024 · 0 min

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This is a YouTube video titled "Handling Negative Reviews | Carleigh Bodrug" containing an interview or discussion from July 26, 2024, where Carleigh Bodrug talks about her emotional response to negative reviews of her first book, addressing critiques about her work and the perception of being an influencer cook.

When you get a negative review or I guess a critical review, how do you take it?
My first book, I was absolutely devastated when a negative review would come in. Yeah, it devastated me. I would be like, I would try and get them taken down. Like I'd be like to my publisher, can you contact Amazon? This review feels a little too personal. Or, you know, having put out a book, people will leave reviews if their book comes damaged. Meanwhile, it's not like it was you shipping out the book, so I.
Would get very upset. What were the words or the critiques that affected you the most? about your work when you launched the book?
People would call it juvenile, which I think was one of the fears. But I mean, the book said ridiculously easy recipes, so I'm like-- so it should be. It should be. It should be basic, yeah. But I think that was hurtful where I'm like, She's just an influencer cook or whatever, which I am. I feel like people think the word influencer is so dirty. It has this dirty connotation, and I'm like, why though?