What authors should be doing, rather than
whining about book reviews, is striving for and demanding the highest quality of professional standards.
Not exact matches
(hangs head in shame for
whining about the size of her own kitchen) Can't wait til my
book arrives (supposed to be by Saturday)!
I don't remember Bvb fans
whining about Kloop last season when things were not going well, so lets take a page outta their
book and get behind the team, we all know Arsenal is enigmatic, I won't be surprised if we beat Barca!
Recently, Mama Luxe was able to read Pantley's new
book, The No - Cry Discipline Solution: Gentle Ways to Encourage Good Behavior Without
Whining, Tantrums, and Tears, and chat with Pantley
about her helpful parenting advice.
The problem is, at any writers event or
book fair, they show up in droves
whining endlessly
about why people aren't fawning all over them and letting them sell their crap at the big kids» podium.
So stop with the
whining about how Amazon sucks or blah blah doesn't work (nothing is magical), pull up your big girl and big boy pants, and spend that effort writing your next blog post,
book or tweet.
I thought it was fitting as we wind up the year to comment on this, and to point out that as much as we
whine about the impact of Kindle Unlimited on our sales, and on the dearth of decent ad sites, and the constantly shifting marketplace, more of us than ever before are earning decent, and in some cases, magnificent, incomes, from writing and publishing, without any help from the traditional channels that used to have the
book selling business locked up.
Some people
whine about Amazon limiting publishing freedom if it starts charging to upload Kindle
books.
It seems to me that publishers are
whining about the supposed «downfall of the paper
book».
Besides,
whining about a literary agent that takes 10 % and may get your
book reviewed widely and translated into other languages (more royalties)
I'm already preparing myself for a ration of Social Justice Ninnies
whining about cultural appropriation when I finish one of my next
book projects — a small South Texas town full of interestingly eccentric characters,
about half of whom are Hispanic.
If independent booksellers did half as much as what AMZN does for authors (not to mention buyers), THEN they can
whine about linking my
books to my favorite 100 ton gorilla.
And don't start
whining about how X famous author only puts out one
book every Y years.
If you want to stop
whining and learn more
about evil plans, I defer to Hugh MacLeod who has written a
book by that title.
But Mann himself decided to weigh in at this point and took time off from
whining about all the one - star reviews of his lousy
book to recommend that Liebreich «should read my
book».
This week we'll talk
about Windows 10 on ARM and how powerful it will be if Cortana will ever go to more markets, and what's the deal with coil
whine and the Surface
Book 2?