Now you're just trying to piss me off
May. 4th, 2009 08:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
megwritesI get that authors, even ones published with the big companies, have to do a lot of their own promotion and marketing. Because that's the name of the game. You wanna sell those books? You gotta get out there and tell people that Bird Is the Word.
But there's a right way and a wrong way to do it.
One of those wrong ways involves joining a discussion group for books just to spam people about your book and "vote for my book as the best book!" polls and other annoying messages when you don't participate in that group for any other reason and a quick check of your GoodReads profile shows that you're doing the same thing on other groups.
Also, maybe if you're said person, you could be slightly less proud of a book which - bless your heart - has probably the world's worst cover art. I'm not kidding, it looks like it was done in MS Paint and I suspect that this author actually did the cover herself and not the publisher (if that's the phrase you wanna use for them, since you have to pay them if they decide to publish your book. Gee, I wonder how many people they turn down).
Seriously, this cover art? Is like a girl who walks out of the bathroom with her skirt tucked into her pantyhose and toilet paper stuck to her shoe and doesn't realize it so she thinks the faces people are making at her are somehow in reaction to her being hot or something. It's actually a little bit hilarious.
But there's a right way and a wrong way to do it.
One of those wrong ways involves joining a discussion group for books just to spam people about your book and "vote for my book as the best book!" polls and other annoying messages when you don't participate in that group for any other reason and a quick check of your GoodReads profile shows that you're doing the same thing on other groups.
Also, maybe if you're said person, you could be slightly less proud of a book which - bless your heart - has probably the world's worst cover art. I'm not kidding, it looks like it was done in MS Paint and I suspect that this author actually did the cover herself and not the publisher (if that's the phrase you wanna use for them, since you have to pay them if they decide to publish your book. Gee, I wonder how many people they turn down).
Seriously, this cover art? Is like a girl who walks out of the bathroom with her skirt tucked into her pantyhose and toilet paper stuck to her shoe and doesn't realize it so she thinks the faces people are making at her are somehow in reaction to her being hot or something. It's actually a little bit hilarious.
