{"id":9066,"date":"2014-10-02T06:30:49","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T13:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=9066"},"modified":"2014-10-02T06:30:49","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T13:30:49","slug":"zombie-cops-first-1-star-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/zombie-cops-first-1-star-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Zombie Cop&#8217;s First 1-Star Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lest you think I only show the good stuff&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Finally got our first 1-star &#8220;Zombie Cop&#8221; review.<\/p>\n<p>(Out of 35 reviews total so far.)<\/p>\n<p>Behold:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;The book had an interesting premise but would have really\u00a0benefited from an editor. I fought with finishing this book but\u00a0continued to give it a chance to improve. Sad to say it didn&#8217;t. The\u00a0story at times would contradict itself and was really repetitive.\u00a0The ending was also extremely flat. The writer was extremely vulgar\u00a0without reason other than an attempt to be shocking. This failed\u00a0horribly as it made the writing seem like it was written by someone\u00a0compensating for their inadequacies as a man. Maybe next time the\u00a0writer should sell his story to a more experienced writer. I love\u00a0horror and supernatural books but this one was a bust.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Almost sounds like they got an axe to grind.<\/p>\n<p>Sheesh.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the case&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I disagree with the repetitive and contradictory critique &#8212;\u00a0although someone is more than welcome to show me examples of\u00a0either. (One person tried a few months ago, and admitted he simply\u00a0didn&#8217;t read the ending very carefully. It happens.)<\/p>\n<p>But, I also found it useful, too.<\/p>\n<p>How?<\/p>\n<p>Because it reminded me to give this warning:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Zombie Cop&#8221; ain&#8217;t for prudes.<\/p>\n<p>It has quite a bit of profanity (not for some mythical &#8220;shock&#8221;\u00a0value &#8212; it&#8217;s just a depraved zombie story about a depraved town\u00a0with depraved evil beings doing deranged depraved things &#8212; they\u00a0don&#8217;t exactly say things like &#8220;the F-word&#8221; or &#8220;fudge&#8221; instead of\u00a0the word &#8220;fuck&#8221;). Lots of violent deaths. And, features despicable\u00a0characters who do truly vile things to each other.<\/p>\n<p>In other words&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It ain&#8217;t the Mickey Mouse Club.<\/p>\n<p>(It&#8217;s more like Washington D.C&#8230;.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, first chapter is free here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ZombieCopBook.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>www.ZombieCopBook.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n<p><strong>P.S.<\/strong> I&#8217;m guts deep into writing the sequel called:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&#8220;Vampire Apocalypse&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It should be ready by mid to late November (possibly into December)\u00a0depending on when the cover design is done. I am hiring the same\u00a0guy who did the &#8220;Zombie Cop&#8221; cover &#8212; Kirk DouPonce, arguably the\u00a0best book cover designer on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>And, well, you can&#8217;t rush genius&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lest you think I only show the good stuff&#8230; Finally got our first 1-star &#8220;Zombie Cop&#8221; review. (Out of 35 reviews total so far.) Behold: &#8220;The book had an interesting premise but would have really\u00a0benefited from an editor. I fought with finishing this book but\u00a0continued to give it a chance to improve. Sad to say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-copywriting-and-sales-letters","7":"category-email-marketing","8":"category-sales-marketing"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}