Tag Archives: Foot in Mouth Disease

Wherein Jane Sends Email to Victoria Laurie’s Editor

Dear Editor:
I read today on your author, Victoria Laurie’s, website that you have been in discussions with her about a voice mail message that you have received from a blogger called NovelReads about a statement Ms. Laurie made on her website. I felt that Ms. Laurie’s accusations of this reader being a “psycho” and [...]

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What Is Wrong With the C Review

What Is Wrong With the C Review

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Last week we saw yet another author/reviewer contretemps in which an author, upset over a review, engages the reviewer in a comically bad mannered way. When we’ve witnessed this in the past, it almost always seems to be over a C review. An average review. A review that says this book is competent [...]

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Does Psychic Victoria Laurie Forsee Lawsuit in Her Future?

UPDATED: Ms. Laurie has apparently deleted her post. The cached version is here.
Victoria Laurie, a professional psychic and author, engaged in an Amazon contretemps not too long after the Deborah Anne MacGillivray. This led to a mass deletion of reviews and comments at Amazon on all sides.
Apparently Laurie, who says
“Thanks to Candy [...]

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Top Ten Things Authors Should Not Do at Amazon

Top Ten Things Authors Should Not Do at Amazon

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I meant to post my Top Ten Things a Publisher Can Do to Help Readers Spend Money this week but over the weekend, an author began to engage readers over at Amazon in a fairly combative manner over a three star, or average, review. I think it serves as a good illustration of [...]

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Mainstream Media Embarasses Itself

MSNBC decided to run a poll about romance novels in conjunction with its feature of fiction writer Danielle Steele. Why MSNBC jumps from Danielle Steele to romance, I’ll never know but it just goes to show how culturally illiterate the MSNBC poll writers are.
Apparently MSNBC believes that romance books are still called [...]

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How Not to Gain New Business

Theo Black, web designer and husband of author Holly Black, took to criticizing the websites of his former clients. I think Black is a talented guy but his vision of website design is style over functionality. I much prefer the functional and generic websites that he disdains because these sites are easier to [...]

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Publishing House Alert: Yaoi House LLC

Update. Kira Takenochi has alerted people to new changes in her Yaoi publishing role.
Hello Everyone,
For most of you, this is going to come as no surprise, as I’ve been discussing this situation for a few weeks now in my journal at the site.
As of tonight I will be shutting down the Yaoi House site [...]

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