Talking Books with Jerry J. Pollock, Author of Messiah Interviews - Page 7

Do you have a website?  Do you manage it yourself or do you have someone run it for you?

You can enter the website either at www.thirdtempleinfo.com  or www.shechinahthirdtemple.org (Shechinah in Hebrew means Divine Presence). My site is managed by Radical Webs here in Florida. With the latest update, I’ll be able to make changes or addition to the website.

How do you deal with a bad review?

I wrote many letters of reference for both Dental and Ph.D. students as a Professor and Graduate Director at Stony Brook University. I never used a standard letter format and I always focused on the strengths of the students, not on their weaknesses. This approach at least got them to the Interview process, and how they fared after that depended upon their own skills and personalities. I personally can’t see writing a bad review where someone who doesn’t even know you tears you apart. It hurts and I don’t think it is fair. We can’t all be best selling authors but most of us have something to say. If you get one stinker among several reasonably good reviews, I guess it’s okay. If you start getting more than one stinker, maybe it’s time to reassess. Human nature of bad reviewers is pretty predictable. They themselves never made it as writers.

Now that you have opened the door, I wish reviewers were more ethical. An author spends his time, energy, and monies and sends books to corrupt Reviewers. They never review your book but immediately turn around and sell it on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. I realize you are sending theses books unsolicited, but so called Reviewers should make better moral choices than to screw over the author. You can read all about moral choices in the Messiah Interviews. These corrupt characters won’t make it to the Messianic Age.

What’s next for you?

I’m so busy with the publicity of our titles that it’s hard to see into the future. I have the love of my wife, family, and the Creator, but I don’t yet quite have inner peace. I’m almost there but I’m still working on my neurosis and my spirituality. If you have inner peace, everything else takes care of itself. The most important quality that I seek in another human being and in myself is truth and sincerity in one’s heart. Remember God sees into your heart as well as the crevices of your mind, so don’t fool yourself or rationalize away your character traits.

Thank you for this interview, Jerry!  Do you have any final words you’d like to share with my readers?

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