This post is a follow-up to my last three posts and continues a conversation at Grow Your Writing Business. While this topic didn’t come up in the original discussion, my thoughts extended to one more issue that bothers me. Do you really know what it means that a book is a bestseller? One of the … Read more
This post is a follow-up to my last two posts and continues a conversation at Grow Your Writing Business. Amy Derby said she had seen ads for writers to post reviews on Amazon.com. That led me to share David’s experience. He read in John Kremer’s Book Marketing newsletter about a way to get more reviews … Read more
This post is a follow-up to my last post and continues a conversation at Grow Your Writing Business. Mary Emma Allen questioned the ethics of writers asking people to vote for their books for awards, whether or not the voter has read the book. Recently I told you that my client David Bowles’ book was … Read more
Yvonne Russell at Grow Your Writing Business has an interesting discussion going on about fake testimonials and the ethics of writing . Her original post quoted an ad she saw on a freelance site asking to have 25 testimonials written to sound like they are from “allegedly satisfied readers” of the book – for the … Read more