“A Facebook group refused to review my book because it was self-published. Please, if you don’t mind, enlighten me as to what the problem is with self-published books, a least from your standpoint…”
Do YOU think this author’s friend really purchased his book?
“How can one book on preorder get reviews and another not?”
Marketing mistakes are time and money wasters!
I have several screenshots of drawings from the book that are so offensive that I can’t post them here. If you want to see them, let me know and I’ll send them to you via email. What you didn’t get to see in the comments under my article were the supportive emails I received from people who were too afraid to post comments (because they were afraid of the cancel culture mob). I also received several emails that were very disturbing…
I admit I get a bit miffed that so many people assume that I will drop everything, and spend several minutes to several hours reading their work, and giving them a list of things that are good and not good, and details about how they can improve their writing. Some of them are downright rude…
Frustrated, and with my eyes at the crossing pint, I grabbed my tablet, and turned on Netflix. On occasion, I enjoy listening to documentaries and movies when I’m doing boring tasks. And, I found one humdinger of a documentary!!
Don’t even WORK with a publisher who upsells authors on these kinds of (bleep)…
“I’m a bit disappointed in (my book sales) because I got a good review from (a book review publication). I had four more good reviews at (book review websites). Two more are due out next week…”
If an author has any enemies (or suspected enemies), I recommend he or she remove those people from their social media friends’ lists, as well as their email lists long before marketing of a new book begins…
