[ellie]

How does one go about responding to comments made by reviewers?

For example, I've had two comments about a particular detail in my story and I'd like to comment on it. Do I just need to send a message to the reviewer? Also what is the proper etiquette here for going about thanking reviewers for their comments?

Thanks!
Ellie

[NancyBrooke]

I'm not sure what 'proper etiquette' could be said to be since so many people do not even leave reviews but to those lovely souls who do review my stories I usually send a private message with comments and thanks. Sometimes that gets a nice little conversation started.

Author's also have been known to comment on reviews by adding another 'review' to their story. I'm pretty sure you can click on the little 'quote' in the right hand corner of any review and add a review to it, as it were, but maybe that spawns a private message (anyway, you can just leave a review normally ... ). I think if a reviewer had raised a question about my work I would answer it there, especially if other readers were likely to wonder about the same thing, but mostly I do the PM thing and leave the review space to the reviews.

So, which ever one works for you is OK.

I hope that helps.

[ellie]

Thank you so very much! I really appreciate it a lot!

Now I can go deal with that little detail that seems to be bugging everyone.

Ellie