If Richard III had been an author, I’m sure that would have been his most famous line, uttered moments before they killed him and buried him under a future car park.

There are now more than one thousand copies of Newton’s Ark in the hands of readers. That’s good news.

The bad news is that a grand total of 11 people have left a review on Amazon.com (but with a gratifying average rating of 4.6 stars).

At 99 cents a copy I’m not doing this for the money, I’m doing it because I want to share something I’ve created with other people. Fortunately I’m fairly sure most of those thousand copies have been read, so I suspect the real problem is that people really, really don’t like writing book reviews. Who would have thought, huh? I read recently of an author who offered his book at a significantly discounted price in return for a promise to leave a review. Turns out only 9% of those who promised to do so actually did.

Did I mention that people don’t like writing book reviews? So I know I’m swimming upstream here, but if you’ve read Newton’s Ark and enjoyed it and haven’t left a review, please, please do. I would love to know what you thought of it.

In fact even if you didn’t like it please leave a review. Even if you hated it. I mean that sincerely.

Ideally, be specific about what you did or didn’t like. That’s important for two reasons. First, if gives me something to work on for those things you didn’t like or to keep doing for those you did and second, what didn’t appeal to you might not be a big deal to someone else and vice versa.