Book Reviews
IR Staff •
Sep 14, 2012 
dish: Snark from beginning to end, with a delicious gossipy center.
Dear Self Published Authors,
YES, you are good enough. You are smart enough, and dagnabit—people like you! So please get your literary shit together and stop acting so desperate.
How desperate? Let’s just say on a scale from one to oh-hell-no, this would be rated are-you-out-of-your-freakin’-mind?
Let’s set the scene, shall we? An author across the pond awoke one foggy morning with a realization:
“I can’t get anyone to buy my self-published book. I know! I’ll go to a bookstore that I have no relationship with and conveniently leave business cards jammed into every dusty nook and cranny suggesting people buy my book…from Amazon!Only the bookstore found the business cards, threw them away and informed the author. You know, since he left his business card and a way to contact him…ohhhhh…and a way to find his book online.
What could possibly go wrong?
The bookstore, sullied by this self-published author and his blatantly American idea of self-promotion (no tea and crumpets for YOU!), had someone (best guess is a Loyal Employee) find the author’s book online and write a trashy review.
The author complained. Hell, the LE hadn’t even bothered to read his book!
The review was removed.
Only to have another one pop up. The author complained. It was removed.
Do you see a pattern here? Or people with too much time on their hands?
Self-published authors, I know you’re desperate for love and attention and everything good this world has to offer…but DON’T stoop to doing something like this . If you act decent your books may not sell, but at least you can respect yourself in the morning.
Reported by Bio Tachi
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