My first bad SAD JINGO review
Surprised louis vuitton outlet took this long to get a bad review, but here is the first one at last. Kudos to the book blogger site BigAl's Books and Pals for stick-to-it-iveness, by the way. louis vuitton outlet sent them an electronic file of the book some months ago and figured I didn't make the grade, but no, they actually did review it, for which I am grateful. Unfortunately, the reviewer greatly disliked the book, but them's the breaks.
louis vuitton outlet has been a bit of posting of bad reviews by writers going around, as a way to ridicule and belittle the reviewers, and get even. None of that here. I disagree with some of the points the reviewer made, but to me it's kind of like sex. I've been looked at with utter loathing by some women, and yet have also managed to marry the most wonderful woman I have ever known. So sometimes — most times? — the minds, they just don't meet.
SAD JINGO update: Print-on-demand, a nice Goodreads review
Kudos to my publisher Delabarre for navigating for the first time the Byzantine labyrinth of publishing a print-on-demand title, louis vuitton outlet with my own SAD JINGO, through Lightning Source. Evidently the process is arcane and non-intuitive enough that publisher and author were both unsure when exactly the book would appear on Amazon.com and BN.com, or at what price, as Delabarre filed the paperwork some weeks ago. At last, this past Thursday December 6, the book appeared on Amazon with a $9.99 price tag, and the next day on BN.com with a 3% discount, at $9.64.
Some observations:
- As seems to usually be the case when using Lightning Source, rather than Amazon's own Createspace, the book first appeared as "temporarily out of stock" on Amazon, louis vuitton outlet but that lasted only one day. That did not occur on BN.com. louis vuitton outlet The advantage of going with Lightning Source is that it is now available through special order at any bookstore that gets books through the distributor Ingram.
- On Amazon, it's a bit hard to get both versions — POD and Kindle — on the same page. You get one or the other. It has two different book numbers. I'm not sure what that means. On BN.com, both editions appear on the same search page.
And humble thanks to a kind reviewer on Goodreads, louis vuitton outlet came across my book through being followed by my publisher on Twitter. Aniko Carmean, author of STOLEN CLIMATES, had these nice things to say. My heartfelt thanks to all those who know me or are related to me and have given their compliments, but there is something special about a piece of one's writing being appreciated by a stranger.
SAD JINGO update: some local e-newspaper coverage
A nice mention in a local on-line news venue of my book and that of another local author.
Interesting that the reporter made the mistake of assuming that ebook = self-publishing. I've added a comment explaining JINGO is not self-published, and the reporter said the story ought to be fixed in coming versions tailored to other neighborhoods in the area.
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Thanks Dean Wesley Smith for the hat tip. Great, great article.
Down Bellycut Way: Is there anything scarier than stand-up?
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That was the genesis of "Down Bellycut Way," a story now appearing at Yellow Mama, and with a nice illustration by Paul "Deadeye" Dick.
Illustration by Paul "Deadeye" Dick
For some subconscious reason, I find myself writing about comics now and then, louis vuitton outlet though I am not nor could ever be one. I guess the idea of standing in front of people and talking — no, being — the show is so terrifying that it is pretty easy to come up with a horror story based on heckling. Long ago I published a story called "Stage Fright" in the late, lamented Blue Murder Magazine about a deranged stand-up comic with a gift for mimicry who took out the frustrations of his lack of success on a grieving mother by telephoning her when she was drunk late at night, in her dead daughter's voice. A very unpleasant story.
louis vuitton outlet new one also should give the creeps, I hope. Very ably edited (and improved; louis vuitton outlet am grateful) by YM editor Cindy Rosmus, who also has a bang-up short story collection of her own just out as an ebook, Death Takes a Snowday. Highly recoommended.
Digital stigma: It's often hard to get an ebook reviewed
I've approached a number of book blogs and websites asking that they review SAD JINGO. It turns out that some of the plum ones, such as Bookslut, do not review purely digital books, as a matter of policy, and will only review books submitted by publishers rather than the authors themselves.
I understand that completely, and imagine I would have the same policy were I a book review site (though there is just a tinge, the merest smidgen, of irony in the phenomenon of an online book review site refusing to review purely electronically published books, unless the books are also available in ye olde corporeal ink + paper + binding form; alas, it's a buyer's market, so to speak, and us indie/micro-published writers can't very well sniff at web sites and say we refuse to be reviewed by anything but printed and bound book reviews).
The fact is there are too many books out there by self-published, louis vuitton outlet unedited, non-professionals that the decision to let actual physical publishing do at least a little of the curatorial job of the critic seems reasonable. Not to mention practical. Perhaps even necessary.
It does make it hard, though, for sad folks like JINGO.
So once JINGO is available via print-on-demand, louis vuitton outlet will urge my publisher to submit copies to folks like Bookslut, The Millions, and others. Even though I can't read them on real, professional ink and paper.
