Posted in Books, Publishing Industry on Apr 23rd, 2008
The recent discussions about review fraud on DearAuthor, SmartBitches, and Karen Scott’s blog have made me wonder if 5-star reviews from fellow writers actually work against the book instead of helping sales. For example, if I see a page full of glowing reviews and every last one of them comes from an author, I often [...]
Posted in Publishing Industry on Apr 17th, 2008
I’m usually not much of a petition-signer, but in this case, I made an exception. Last week, Dear Author broke a story about how a gang of romance writers has been gaming the Amazon system to inflate their books’ ratings and to fraudulently have reviews lower than five stars removed by reporting them as abusive [...]
Posted in Publishing Industry on Jan 15th, 2008
Move Over, ‘Meerkat Manor’
What he said.
Posted in Publishing Industry on Jul 22nd, 2007
Jody has a thought-provoking post about Author Branding at her blog. Like I was saying in the comments there, if you SAY you’re cutting-edge — or unique, or thrilling, or whatever — you immediately create an “Oh, yeah?” response in many people’s minds. From one way of looking at it, you’ve made your job harder, [...]
Posted in Publishing Industry on Jul 19th, 2007
Sara’s invention of a new word for Romance blogosphere kerfuffles came just in time for the season. There’s a fresh batch of Romancelandia scandals every summer, you know. They’re a vital part of the ecosystem. If we didn’t have them, crops wouldn’t grow. The Earth might even stop spinning.
Random thoughts on this month’s bloffle cornucopia:
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