Now that I'm stuck in the plot of Wicker Wood II, and after the reissue, with additional material, of
The Knowledge Seekers. Which is now two books Seekers book I and
Cudhabeen Book II, I foolishly returned to looking at some Amazon forums. Strangly the one I viewed was titled "Voice or the Author Publisher". Don't think some posters read that, since they do not seem to be either an author or a publisher.
OMG...the posters are as
bad as ever.
I always despaired that
when you wrote something a Cyclops would view it and reply
castigating you for something you did not say.
In an attempt to enlighten
a lady a while ago I spoke about my "twenty minute read" series and
mentioned the name of the books, but did not include a link.
She came back foaming at
the mouth that I had broken (past participle) the rules, and was
trying to flog my work, and besides she did not read “Short
Stories” completely missing the point the stories were “Flash
Fiction” and abiding by the rules of that medium.
And when she took
a train journey it would be longer that 20 minutes and she would
bring a “Book”and only read part of it.
I could handle that but
then the trolls got in on the act, using wrong names for the posters,
and offering their Tuppence Worth, and accusing me of trying to sell
my books.
DOH! Amazon – BOOKS -
SALES MEDIUM, MARKETING, PUBLICITY.
One poster only joined a
few weeks ago and has a massive number to posts for the time in the
club – obviously bored with life.
Another has books with a
few reviews, six in total: the ones where you can't check if the
reviewer did any more reviews, even if it was only for a Toaster. To
make sure I was not imaging things I just clicked on my reviewers.
Full review history is available.
What kills me is that some
of them are not writing books just posting while alledgly their
Facebook Account is being restored, or some such like.
Others are writers who
forget that their first chapters are available on the Amazon “Look
Inside” feature. I used to comment on bad grammar of lack of capitals,
or missing quotes or punctuation.
Now when you notice these problems
the book has been published and has 27 glowing reviews, some with
misspellings, and other grammatical errors. So I don't bother any
with comments any more.
Instead I blog and try to
sell me books.
