When everybody hates your book

[Karen Dionne]

Because sometimes, the critics DON'T love what we've written:

I [heart] Brad Meltzer.

[I. J. Parker]

I don't know that it works that way for me, but then I'm not at all typical.

[Benjamin Sobieck]

Disclaimer: I don't like Fall Out Boy, but I have heard its music, possibly while unable to change the channel from MTV while ironing a shirt or something. JUST SO WE'RE CLEAR.

Fall Out Boy has a song called "I Don't Care." One of the lyrics in the chorus goes like this:

"I don't care what you think
"As long as it's about me"

That notion is true whether you're an author, in a band or in a career that attracts critics. Bad press is still press, which means your name is in front of an audience.