Comments on: Two bookish PSAs http://www.tinglealley.com/?p=836 a quasi-literary weblog Sat, 15 Sep 2007 11:45:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: M.J. Rose http://www.tinglealley.com/?p=836&cpage=1#comment-41594 M.J. Rose Fri, 15 Jul 2005 11:33:24 +0000 /?p=836#comment-41594 Funny, but I'm concerned about this issue too! I have two blogs and I get inundated. So thanks especially for mentioning the Reading is Fundamental drive. I really wanted to do something good at the same time as promote the book. I get tired of the me, me, meness of being an author. And thank you so much for buying Halo, do let me know how you like it. (It strikes me as good in the tub. I thought up the whole idea for it while I was swimming.) Funny, but I’m concerned about this issue too! I have two blogs and I get inundated. So thanks especially for mentioning the Reading is Fundamental drive. I really wanted to do something good at the same time as promote the book. I get tired of the me, me, meness of being an author.

And thank you so much for buying Halo, do let me know how you like it. (It strikes me as good in the tub. I thought up the whole idea for it while I was swimming.)

]]> By: bookdwarf http://www.tinglealley.com/?p=836&cpage=1#comment-41513 bookdwarf Thu, 14 Jul 2005 21:55:59 +0000 /?p=836#comment-41513 I hear your song! I get weird pitches daily as well. And as much as I wish good luck to every author, I don't have time to read and review everything, nor do I feel comfortable turning my blog over to someone else (they could stain it!). And I know they are sending the same letters to every other blogger out there. Plus to be honest, sometimes the books they want to send me sound terrible! I hear your song! I get weird pitches daily as well. And as much as I wish good luck to every author, I don’t have time to read and review everything, nor do I feel comfortable turning my blog over to someone else (they could stain it!). And I know they are sending the same letters to every other blogger out there. Plus to be honest, sometimes the books they want to send me sound terrible!

]]> By: Max http://www.tinglealley.com/?p=836&cpage=1#comment-41511 Max Thu, 14 Jul 2005 21:08:40 +0000 /?p=836#comment-41511 I'm also getting somewhat alarmed by the marketing pitches arriving in my inbox. First of all, it's kind of annoying, but beyond that I find it odd that I - a blogger with an audience that, on a good day, could barely fill a movie theater* - am somehow going to turn a book into a bestseller. I love the personal emails I get from authors and publishing types, but the form letters and press releases and long rambling mass emailed pitches make me very queasy. *One of those newfangled "stadium seating" theaters, not an art house, hut still! I’m also getting somewhat alarmed by the marketing pitches arriving in my inbox. First of all, it’s kind of annoying, but beyond that I find it odd that I – a blogger with an audience that, on a good day, could barely fill a movie theater* – am somehow going to turn a book into a bestseller. I love the personal emails I get from authors and publishing types, but the form letters and press releases and long rambling mass emailed pitches make me very queasy.

*One of those newfangled “stadium seating” theaters, not an art house, hut still!

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