1) Managed to make it through last night without any old high school acquaintances drunkenly stumbling to my front door or anything like that. So that’s good. I gotta make it through work tonight without anybody finding me but they’re all supposed to be at a baseball game so I figure the chances are minimal.
2) So far this has not worked out as swimmingly as I might have hoped. You guys seem to enjoy it when I humiliate myself (seriously, posts that boil down to “here’s some dumb shit that I just did because I’m an idiot” dominate the top 10 around here) but not many of you are spending money to make it happen. 🙂 You still have about thirteen hours!
3) I’ve been having a real problem with Amazon removing positive reviews of The Benevolence Archives— there are currently four reviews listed on the site, two five-star reviews and two four-star reviews. There should be seven; three four-star reviews and four five-star reviews. Luckily for me, I’ve got copies of the deleted reviews, and I think I’m gonna post ’em on the page later today or tomorrow. I need to redo the BA page anyway, so I may as well get all my reviews up where people can actually see them.
Plans for the rest of the weekend include getting the damn Baen story done arrrgh and Redgarding the bathroom, or at least preparing the bathroom for Redgarding, with painter’s tape and plastic and such. How are you?
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I’ve done some reviews where i was given a copy of the book for that purpose and Amazon has deleted my reviews because they can’t see where i purchased the book. I’ve had to email them more than once about it, sometimes it won’t even let me write a review if the book isn’t linked to my purchases. I guess it keeps bs reviews in check but it also hurts authors who give out books for reviews.
It sucks…
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Two of the three were even Amazon Verified– the third was a husband-and-wife team sharing a Kindle. (Which is especially bullshit, because they removed BOTH of them, and also because of the implication that the wife isn’t entitled to an opinion if the husband has expressed his already.)
They don’t respond to complaints, at all. There’s an email address to write to to “appeal” a removal, but all it does is auto generate a useless email response and then nothing happens.
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That makes it even more crappy of them! Amazon was the best thing I’d ever seen for an indie author, i hate to see what they are becoming because it isn’t pretty at all.
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What’s up with the pretty flower cover photo? I thought I clicked the wrong site!
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Started to get tired of looking at my own book cover, that’s all. That flower is in my backyard. May fiddle more later.
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