Why Do Books Without Sales Get Reviews?
(A Look At Fake Reviews)

Responding to the question: Weird: I get feedback from people but no sales? 



By Wendy C Allen

f you are here looking for aliens, ufos, demons, cryptids, haunted cars, curses, Etiole, the wild man of old orchard beach, the goldeneagle car, the white monkey, or any of that other weird bullshit, you want this video:



...and after that video, you want these ones:

eelkat_red_scarf.jpgWendy Christine Allen, 2019, able to sit up in a chair for the first time in years, and able to raise up my arm and wiggle fingers. This was when I started playing Witcher 3 on Twitch as part of my physical therapy to regain finger movement. Playing Witcher 3 daily from 2016 to 2019, is how I regained the use of my thumb and two for fingers on my right hand... it is also why I stopped playing Witcher 3 in 2019, once I had strengthen my two forefingers enough to start typing again.

Wendy Christine Allen, Old Orchard Beach's Autistic Author, Artist, Illustrator, & Art Car Designer

Counting Down to the September 23, 2028 50th Anniversary of my first published book (September 23, 1978)

If you are here looking for The Twighlight Manor series, The Crystonite Wars series, The Wild Years series, The White Rock Asylum for the Criminally Insane series, The Twisted Tales series, the Captured By a MerMan series, The Space Dock 13 series, The Kats of Planet Ptarmagin series, the stories about Miss Citten the Eel-Kat, or the stories about Etiole... ALL of those series were combined and consolidated into The Adventures of Quaraun the Insane Pink Necromancer series in 2014, so ALL the different series, are now under one series title.

List of the published titles still in print:

The Index of over three thousand stories in The Pink Necromancer series

What the series is about, for those new here:

The introduction to The Pink Necromancer Series. 

If you want some stories to get you started in The Pink Necromancer series, reading these first will give you a good introduction to the 3 main characters:

My Elves Are JellyFish...and I asked Google AI and ChatGPT 5.6 what they thought of this.

As requested, my daily writing prompt series is now available print paperback editions on Amazon.

There are 20 volumes of this writing prompt series currently planned and in varying stages of finishing, hopefully all 20 will be published by the end of 2026. I likely will do a 2nd series of writing prompt books in 2027.

Coming soon (Nov/Dec 2026)... patterns for my slow stitched embroidery:

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The first of the Visual Novels/Video Games for The Adventures of Quaraun the Inane/The Pink Necromancer series is published and available on Itch.io, there are 3 more planned for release in 2026, 6 more planned for release in 2027, and the big 60-hour 80k word 150 page one (Quaraun Goes To the Fair) is planned for a 2028 release.

There is a Pink Necromancer card game and a Pink Necromancer board game, as well as a Pink Necromancer table top RPG supliment for Dungeons and Dragons, all in the works, and to be released over the next couple of years as well.

I shouldn't have to say this, but people keep contacting me, so apparently I do:

  • No, I do not believe in aliens. Stop contacting me to ask for alien information. If you believe in aliens, I think you are insane, retarded, or both.
  • No, my car is not haunted. I've debunked that rumour many times now. . Stop contacting me to ask for haunted car information. If you believe in haunted cars, I think you are insane, retarded, or both.
  • No, I am not connected to Stephen King. I didn't even know who he was until you idiots started contacting me asking about him. I had to look him up on Google to find out what you were even talking about! If you have questions about Stephen King, go contact him and ask him. I'm not him. I don't know him. I know nothing about him. I've never read one of his books. I've never seen one of his movies. I can't figure out why you people are even coming to me to ask about him in the first place!
  1. If someone told you I believe in aliens, if someone told you my car was haunted, if someone told you I was connected to Stephen King, you NEED to contact the FBI agent in charge of my son's murder investigation and TELL HIM WHO it was who told ou, exactly WHAT it was they said, HOW they contacted you, WHERE they contacted you... because it is a KNOWN FACT that my son's murderer is the one who started all these slanderous alien, haunted car, Stephen King rumours, and the FBI is trying to catch her.

If you have any information about my son’s murderer, please give it to FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322 of the Portland, Maine FBI office.

Do you know who this woman is?

On August 8, 2013 she drove a backhoe over my house. On November 14, 2013 she arrived at Southern Maine Community College and crippled me with a golf club and murdered my son. One June 24, 2016, days after my first attempts to walk again, she attacked me with a shopping cart at Scarborough, Walmart, reinjuring the Nov 14, 2013 injury.

She crippled me when I was 8 months pregnant, a woman with a golf club, severed my spine and bashed my baby's head in, I spent 9 years relearning to walk, and the FBI is 13 years into the murder investigation and not yet id-ed the attacker who crippled me and killed my baby, both violently with a golf club.

Complete details of EVERYTHING she did is on this page here.

Clairescreenshot.pngThe golf club woman who called herself Clair as she looked November 14, 2013. Her hair is a weird chin leangth pageboy (very Medival style cut) platinum blonde with wide brown/black dyed stripes in it (like a reverse of Lily Munster, but the stripes are several, almost like a zebra). I am 5'6" and she was a LOT taller then me, like closer to the height of a man; she had thin lips like a man, and large nose like a man... she COULD have been a man disguised as a woman, given the ease with which she severed my spine....she's is a LOT stronger then is typical for a woman). She was wearing a chambre blue denim "blazer jacket over shirt" and a button up mens shirt (possibly flannel) and blue jeans. The bulk of her yelling was focused on accusing me of being transgender, even while ripping my baby out of my 8 month pregnant belly and bashing his head in with a golf club.
zzzz999ClaireRed2016-screenshotThe Claire woman as she looked during her shoping cart attack at Scarborough WalMart June 2016, the attack with left me paralyzed and in a wheelchair. Her hair was dyed dark red, and she drove away in a gold Volvo 240 Station Wagon of a late 1980s/early1990s model, with a "458" on the lisnce plate.... If you have any information about the woman who crippled me with a golf club, please give it to FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322 of the Portland, Maine FBI office.
@eelkat part 9 of 10 #dogwalk around the block (Maine st, Elm st, South street, Bradbury st) #Biddeford #Maine #night #fbiinvestigation #truecrimetiktok ♬ original sound - Wendy C Allen | 📚 Author

If you have any information about the woman who crippled me with a golf club, please give it to FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322 of the Portland, Maine FBI office.

Good god! We just found out about yet another slanderous rumour this woman has been spreading? When does it end? How many more of these things are out there?

Video explains what else she's done ...

If you have any information about the woman who crippled me with a golf club, please give it to FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322 of the Portland, Maine FBI office.


The Goldeneagle World's Most Haunted Car - 1964 Dodge 330If you encounter anyone claiming my car is haunted, demon possessed, or somehow connected to Stephen King please give the information of who, when, where/location to FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322 of the Portland, Maine FBI office.
@eelkat part 7 of 10 #dogwalk around the block (Maine st, Elm st, St Mary's, Dunkin, South street, Bradbury st) #Biddeford #Maine #night #plannedparenthood ♬ original sound - Wendy C Allen | 📚 Author

If you encounter anyone claiming I believe in aliens or was an alien abducttee, please give the information of who, when, where/location to FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322 of the Portland, Maine FBI office.

@eelkat part 4 of 10 #dogwalk around the block (Maine st, Elm st, St Mary's, Dunkin, South street, Bradbury st) #Biddeford #Maine #night #library ♬ original sound - Wendy C Allen | 📚 Author

If you know who drove this backhoe over my house at 146 Portland Ave, Old Orchard Beach, Maine 04064-1520 on August 8, 2013 please give the information of who it is to FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322 of the Portland, Maine FBI office.

eelkats_house_before_after.jpgIf you know who drove this backhoe over my house at 146 Portland Ave, Old Orchard Beach, Maine 04064-1520 on August 8, 2013 please give the information of who it is to FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322 of the Portland, Maine FBI office.

I am sick and tired of people not giving a shit that my son was murdered!

I am sick and tired of jackasses making up rumours and lies about me and my car, calling me an alien abductee and my car haunted, just to try to cover up my son's murder!

Weird: I get feedback from people but no sales?


Weird: I get feedback from people but no sales? 
Posted: Oct 27, 2017 7:55 AM ReplySomething odd is going on with my account: I have sold exactly zero lifetime digital copies, and zero lifetime read pages on the KU or KOLL reports.

However I have purchased for myself a few hard-copies of the book in May of this year on Amazon.com so those should show up but they don't.

Furthermore, there are reviews on the Amazon website but no sales? How is that possible?

I've also gotten (a whole bunch actually) of Twitter followers that have contacted me giving me feedback about the book but no sales reported.

Something is not right... Anyone else experiencing the same thing?


I've had people (about 30,000 total) on Goodreads, Twitter, FaceBook, Tumblr, LinkedIn, and YouTube, leave feedback about my books. It's hysterical really. About 80% of them are radical religious fanatics calling my books Erotica and demanding a boycott of them.

Why is this funny? Because I don't write Erotica. I write Slice of Life Literary Fantasy in the Absurdist style, about an Elf wizard and his Unicorn. It's Satire, and... I don't know where they got the idea it was Erotica, but somehow they did.

The more interesting part is this:

Of the 5 volumes available on Amazon for the series, they've sold a combined total of fewer then 1,000 copies in the spaces of 4 years.

So where in the heck are these 30,000 feedback givers on social media getting their info from? How are so many people reacting to so few sales?

Interestingly, it likewise appears to not be nearly as many people as it seems to be. For example one woman created 52 fake Amazon accounts just for the purpose of copying and pasting the words:

"retarded book about retarded characters, written for retarded readers by a retarded author that should be shot in the head" 

Which she posted 52 times, as 52 one star reviews on EACH of my books, on Amazon.

She created an additional 52 GoodReads account to do the same thing on Goodreads.

She then proceeded to send me 21,000 emails in the space of 30 days.

She next hacked my website, social network profiles, and my Kboards account.

She showed up offline to smash up my car.

And this was just 1 person.

Near as I can tell, it appears to be 3 people: a man and 2 women, creating lots and lots and lots and lots of fake social media accounts.

Still, the end result is, I've got 3,000+ unverified 1 star reviews on a book that has only had around 400 sales. 3,000+ more unverified 1 star reviews on a book that sold exactly 14 copies in 4 years. 3,000+ 1 star reviews on EACH of 36 more books, NOT ONE of those books having more then a 1,000 sales total.

Fake reviews are a thing.

Crazy demented haters leave fake reviews.

Stalkers with deeply desturbed mental illnesses, rape the refresh button viciously, hoping and praying you'll publish a new book, so they can go psycho deranged meltdown posting thousands of 1 star reviews the minite the book goes live, often days or even weeks before it gets it's first sale.

It's possible and common for a book to get 100 to 1,000 reviews, minutes after it's release, and then the book sit there for days, weeks, months, even years before it even gets it's first sale.

I have one book which has only sold 12 copies in total in all it's years of being published, and yet it has 127 one star reviews. 127 reviews on a book that sold 12 copies.

Yeah. 

Haters are a thing.

Haters are gonna hate.

Some haters hate worse then others.

Haters are weird people. So weird that I often wonder if they are even human.

I have Autism, so I can not understand what it must feel like to hate. Thus I find haters to be bizarre.

As it turns out... there's a woman on FaceBook who did in fact read one of the books. And she keeps reposting it on her social media, with warnings to "stay away from this filth". She calls it "gay erotica" (even though the male main character has a female wife) and "filled with sex on every page" (even though only one book in the series contains a sex scene and that's at the end of the book). she has lots of stuff like that that she is listening and saying is in the book, even though none of the things she is listing is in any of my books at all!

She even said that one character murdered a baby with a shovel! Yet the scene simply has a man find a woman crying, while holding her dead baby. The man was carrying a hovel, before he found the woman. How is that translated into him killing the baby with a shovel? I don't know.

Sometimes readers see what they want to see, and not what you actually wrote.

They EXPECTED you to write something, so they convinced themselves you did write it, even though you did not.

It's called hallucinations. Haters seem to have those often, I've noticed.

When I found the source of the rumour and looked to see who she was, I found it to be a local woman from my mother's church! So I asked her why she was slandering me and my books like that, do you know what she said? She told me that I was going to hell for writing trash and that she was bound by god to save my soul by destroying my writing career!

OMG! WTH?

The thing is, she started posting these posts in 2014, and she has posted them DAILY for 3 years now!

People are seeing her posts and without ever once looking at the book, judging it based entirely off her extremely incorrect reviews and highly inaccurate reviews, which she openly admits she wrote wrong with the intention of (in her words) "killing sales".

The end result is, I get bombarded daily with social media feedback, that calls me "scum" and "evil" and "sinner" and lots of very angry bitter, hate filled people attacking me and calling it "feedback"... And yet, not one of them has ever read the book, they are attack!

It is just the strangest thing. I can't comprehend why someone would contact an author, of a book they never read, to leave hate like that, and I find it shocking that so many people do it.

Well, anyways...

I say all of this because it is possible, something similar has happened to you? Maybe some well meaning friend or relative or beta reader who read your unpublished draft, is gathering up their own personal social media "street team" to give you reviews and feedback, but none of then actually bought or read the book and are just leaving feedback based off what they saw your friend post?

Just as there are fake review street teams that bombard authors with fake 1 star reviews; there likewise are fake review street teams that bombard authors with fake 5 star reviews.

I can't think of what else it could be that is happening to your books.

Haters are gonna hate. Looks like you got yourself a hater. It seems to come with the job of being an author.