Adventures in E-publishing for 100, Alex
Mar. 29th, 2011 09:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captainsblogYou say you're trying to get your new book noticed? Want to get all'th'all Interwebs talking about you? Very little of it good?
Try this:
* Find a not-bad-but-semicritical review of your just e-published book on a website devoted to such things.
* Get the first comment in the door, accusing the reviewer of not reading "the second clean copy I requested you download," and mentioning how wrong he must be because, hey, you've already gotten 4 and 5-star reviews on Amazon.
* Follow that up by also posting the second through fourth comments yourself, repeating those reviews verbatim.
* Watch as your last name slowly begins the descent into Mud, as anonymous commenters and the moderator stand by the original opinion of the review, the latter quoting specific examples of the things he rather didn't like.
* Start your rebuttal comment with "My writing is just fine!" and end it with "Your the target not me! Now get this review off here!" (As to penultimate sentence, see Urban Dictionary: QED, passim.)
* Repeat, ad infinitum and ad intestinum, for several more rounds, ending, essentially, by saying this to your assembled readership:
* Oops, forgot to mention. The title of the ouevre in question is The Greek Seaman, which rather evokes some things Miss Jackie probably didn't intend. Or maybe that's just me, a little touchy today from discovering that my baseball team has just renamed the kid-friendly section of its ballpark after an equally unfortunately-named wholesale outlet:
Ah, March. In like a lion and out like a FAIL.
Try this:
* Find a not-bad-but-semicritical review of your just e-published book on a website devoted to such things.
* Get the first comment in the door, accusing the reviewer of not reading "the second clean copy I requested you download," and mentioning how wrong he must be because, hey, you've already gotten 4 and 5-star reviews on Amazon.
* Follow that up by also posting the second through fourth comments yourself, repeating those reviews verbatim.
* Watch as your last name slowly begins the descent into Mud, as anonymous commenters and the moderator stand by the original opinion of the review, the latter quoting specific examples of the things he rather didn't like.
* Start your rebuttal comment with "My writing is just fine!" and end it with "Your the target not me! Now get this review off here!" (As to penultimate sentence, see Urban Dictionary: QED, passim.)
* Repeat, ad infinitum and ad intestinum, for several more rounds, ending, essentially, by saying this to your assembled readership:
* Oops, forgot to mention. The title of the ouevre in question is The Greek Seaman, which rather evokes some things Miss Jackie probably didn't intend. Or maybe that's just me, a little touchy today from discovering that my baseball team has just renamed the kid-friendly section of its ballpark after an equally unfortunately-named wholesale outlet:
Ah, March. In like a lion and out like a FAIL.
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Date: 2011-03-30 01:43 am (UTC)She should really hook up with Crazypants Theatre.
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Date: 2011-03-31 02:16 am (UTC)http://www.buffalonews.com/city/article380498.ece