Lynne Simpson

Of the decade, even. While reading an excellent article on why a writer needs an agent, I ran across this quote:

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Ain’t THAT the truth. I could come up with enough examples from both my careers to fill a hundred blog posts. But I won’t. :-)

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 [...]

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 [...]

Move Over, ‘Meerkat Manor’
What he said.

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, [...]