Comments on: REVIEW: The Claiming by Trinity Blacio

By: Why you should self-publish, and general thoughts on reviews. « The e-Fiction Book Club

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:09:29 +0000

[...] or not you like traditional publishing, the fact is that, while the occasional lemon does make it to the shelves, most of the work you buy from publishing houses (whether paper or e-pub) has been through an [...]

By: Good Reading Recipe | Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News, and Commentary

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:00:55 +0000

[...] ago there was a lot of contention on Dear Author because of an F review for Trinity Blacio’s The Claiming. In the midst of the usual cache of mean girl accusations were also a lot of intersecting issues [...]

By: Stumbling Over Chaos :: Midweek Bookity Break

Stumbling Over Chaos :: Midweek Bookity Break — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:05:38 +0000

[...] in with your perception of ebook quality. Then go read an amusing (scary?) review about an ebook that seems to embody all the worst that you’ve [...]

By: Quality of e Published Books | Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News, and Commentary

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:07:58 +0000

[...] suffer from the perception gap myself which isn’t helped when I come across books like The Claiming. I’m curious how the DA audience perceives quality difference between digital pubbed books [...]

By: Jane

Jane — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:11:38 +0000

I’m closing the thread. I think we’ve all made our points. Robin is going to do a post about the importance of quality writing and hopefully we can have a discussion about expectations and standards re: writing and publishing instead of name calling.

By: W. H. Mills

W. H. Mills — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:47:31 +0000

After deleting 60 + emails, and thinking a little more of my earlier comment, and reading other posts, please accept my humblest apologies if I insulted any Bull Dykes.

Whom I really wanted to insult are the “ja(y)nes” on this post who think they are actually reviewers. The founder, Dear Author, Jane, I believe, is a lawyer, who must not be a very busy lawyer at that, thinks she (and others) can insult behind factious names. This post and its reviews go beyond the pointing out of typos, it goes after the individual, be it an author or publisher. To be honest in a critique is to critique the work, professionally pointing out its weaknesses and strengths.

You, my dear Ja(y)nes, are no better then the bullies in High School, and if I had to guess, you were probably picked on by the bullies and now you discovered the internet and it’s anonymity, you justify your bullish behavior with the righteous “nose-in-the-air” “tell it like it is, if you like it or not”.

Come out from behind your false names; publish your true identity and your worth. Prove your talent and maybe your post will gain the respect it should deserve.

Your posts are no better than any blog out there on the internet, what gives a newspaper credibility? You all know the answer, it is just deplorable you don’t live by that same rule of publishing.

Enough.

By: AnneD

AnneD — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:01:28 +0000

Well, Dexter is doing rather superbly well for itself. It maybe that there is a market for it?
Shit, is Dexter gay? How did I miss that?

I was referring to the serial killers portion of the "a series about gay serial killers." statement, rather than the gay portion. Does anyone really care if the protags in their serial killer fiction are gay or not? *shrug* probably... *double shrug*

By: Diana Peterfreund

Diana Peterfreund — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:36:55 +0000

AnneD and Angela James, thank you for clarifying this point for me in the discussion. I admit I was a bit mystified about the idea of one book published by X ruining the entire barrel of books published by X. After all, you can hate Danielle Steel and still like Dean Koontz (or vice versa), and they’re both Bantam Dell. There are very few print publishers that have a similar branding going on, and usually that’s for a specific imprint/line, like Dorchester Shomi or the Harlequin lines.

By: Appalled

Appalled — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:30:42 +0000

BTW, I’ve seen your promos for your current release including today’s. Typos right in the subject line. I think you’ve even promo’d on Trinity’s Yahoo group, possibly even with the one that has HUMOROUS spelled wrong.

Oh, noes! I saw this one. It did have humorous spelled wrong in the subject line. I don’t think it was today. Might have been yesterday since I have most groups on digest, but I could probably go back and look in my deleted emails and find it. Not that it matters all that much. I just happen to remember it because there’s been a lot of promos from this author recently. Three separate ones for the same book on the same day (yesterday) on Raine Delight’s group alone. I can see why Sarcastica might get annoyed.

By: Anon Y. Mouse

Anon Y. Mouse — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:24:56 +0000

Give me the top five or so most recognized epublishers and most of us will probably be able to agree on their general brand.

I would be tremendously interested in getting your, and anyone’s, opinion on what the general brands are of the top epubs. So, Samhain, EC, Loose ID, Amber Quill, LSB is what I consider the top five. What is the branding of those, do you think?

It’s an interesting topic and one that I think could help new authors especially when they’re looking at where to sub their MS for the first time.