“How I sold one million e-books…” revisited
First of all, Heartache is the featured new release at the Short Story Blog today. In other news, the New York Times published a lengthy article about a “pay for fake e-book reviews” service. One of...
View ArticleEven more on sockpuppets and fake reviews
We’re still talking about sockpuppets and bought reviews, so here are the latest links: A group of mostly crime writers has published a sort of open letter condemning paid reviews and sockpuppeting...
View ArticlePosting sockpuppet reviews is not free speech
Joe Konrath defends the practices of buying fake reviews, leaving malicious one star reviews to trash the books of rivals and leaving sockpuppet reviews as free speech. Because an author deliberately...
View ArticleThis ain’t no witch hunt
We’re still talking about the whole fake reviews scandal it appears. For now, Barry Eisler weighs in on the sockpuppeting and paid reviews scandal once more and though his tone is a lot more measured...
View ArticleSockpuppets on Sockpuppeting
No, not really. But I’m gradually running out of post titles here. Anyway, as you could gather from the title, the fake reviews scandal is still expanding and hitting the mainstream media. At The...
View ArticleNew Interview with Cora and more on Sockpuppets
I’ve been interviewed for the Sunday Spotlight at Elizabeth Baxter’s blog Small Blonde Hippy, so come on over and say hello. Links to all my interviews are archived at the interview page, by the way....
View ArticleOutlaw Love finds more success
My little lesbian western Outlaw Love has long been one of our most popular titles and is currently the third bestselling Pegasus Pulp e-book of all time. However, today I discovered that not only had...
View ArticleJust a Couple of Links
I’ve been planning to write a long blogpost about science fiction and originality, but I’ve been busy with writing, publishing, day job work, holiday related stuff, etc…, so I shelved that post for...
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