A new definition of Spam

[reviews_and_ramblings]

Sending an email to 20 authors (ONLY 20) to alert them they are in my Top 10 Book List for the month of April is spam... good to know, and good to know who I have to remove from my contact list.

And no, don't try to go and see all the authors in that post to imagine who she was, since I have not only promptly removed her from the list, I have also removed her from my flist, and if in the future she will try to contact me, I will be sure to remember that name.

Now I don't pretend to be thanked for every post I do, but to reply to a kindness with a slap in the face, it was not really the best of replies. And btw her books are not even that good (maybe that is the reason why I read only 1?)

ETA: the kind author of above replied to me "I don't pay attention to that stuff. The only ones I read are the real review sites my publishers send to. If I read every "review" from anyone who has a blog with an opinion I'd spend days just doing that...".

Ok, maybe I'm not a real review site, but kind author YOUR TWO PUBLISHERS send me your books to review, not the viceversa, even if now I will know for whom I have not to waste my time. And yes, my ego is pretty big, never denied that, so maybe kind author, you should remember than not so far long ago, on a symposium on marketing ebooks (and not M/M ebooks, ebooks in general) someone said "Elisa is the world’s foremost eBook reviewer. Get a good eBook review from her and you are golden." But problably she doesn't need that kind of advertisement.

Comments

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Thank you, my aplomb slipped a bit at the third email with a subtle insult, and that is the reason this post is up there ;-) but thank you for letting me know I helped you finding good books.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

more sad than anything else, but thank you for the support

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

thank you, hugs welcomed ;-)

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

I will be sure to not read anything by her in the future

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

as I said to antonella, that was not the case also since she added her personal "touch" on following emails

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

well, if she was from a big bad publisher or a steady author... but she publishes mostly with indies and if you browse her on Amazon, most of the reviews are so and so... don't really understand why she picked me that, in a way, was giving her a good one

[raynedanser.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, that's just lovely and so professional of her. :/

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

as I said i was not expecting anything, but neither such behaviour

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

LOL thank you ariel, nice words always help in these cases

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

thank you rowena, lucky me most authors are like you than her

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

yes, I seem to remember you wrote a post about that, didn't you?

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

probably she didn't like it since she was not the first? but being among the top 10 I think was good enough to let her know... mah...

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

maybe she was having a bad day, but in any case I don't think I did something so wrong for her to treat me like that

[raynedanser.livejournal.com]

No, I don't think you did either.

[loritoland.livejournal.com]

I truly LOVE getting that e-mail :) Please keep sending me that e-mail. It's a fave part of my month :)

[elena-62.livejournal.com]

If it wasn't an automatic reply, this was beyond rude!

Ciao

A

[elizaben.livejournal.com]

Besides being unprofessional and rude, telling someone bringing you good news that they're spamming you is just weird. Nobody in their right mind would do that.

As for the "real" review site comment, you personally review more books than any other reviewer I've encountered, online and offline, and you do it with taste, sincerity and respect. And the visitors' numbers show that you have a lot of readers, so you must be doing something right.

Oh, perhaps she used the word in an ontological sense. Nothing is real, it's all a matter of perception etc. XD

[kirby-crow.livejournal.com]

Wow. All I can say is... what a dumbass she is. Pbbt. You're not only one of the BEST homoerotica reviewers out there, you're one of the sweetest. :)

PS: *cries* because I didn't make the April list this time, but then, April hates me. :)

[leebenoit.livejournal.com]

Like Rowena, your was the first-ever review of my first-ever e-book, and in the years since, I've had nothing but respect and gratitude for all you do, and the grace with which you do it. All hail Elisa!!
Lee B. xo

[darthanne.livejournal.com]

I can't believe how rude she was. *Hugs* Not just rude but with a hugely inflated ego to boot. *shakes head*

[lab-jazz.livejournal.com]

She e-mailed you and told you to stop spamming her !!!!

I think you should tell us who she was so we can avoid her like the plague and NEVER buy any of her books.

[eroticjames.livejournal.com]

Seriously, I love to know I'm in the top refers b/c that means I'm selling books....and I'm selling books based on your review.

This is a very small fishpond. Especially if you think of the world of all literature as the ocean and various big category sub genres as bodies of water like the Indian Ocean or Caribbean...you get down to M/M romance...we're a tributary to the Colorado river of Mainstream Romance.

You piss in that river and everyone gets to taste it...and eventually we all figure out who sent the yellow water downstream.

Keep doing what you're doing...and F*** that idiot.

[devonrhodes.livejournal.com]

Always love to receive emails from you, dear. Hugs. Sorry you were treated so poorly, and by someone you had done something nice for. Boggles the mind, what she could have been thinking. Oh wait. She obviously wasn't. We love you!! Thank you for everything you do.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

thank you Lori, truth be told this was the first time someone replied telling me I'm spamming them for sending that email...

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

well the first reply could have been generic, meaning that she used spam in a generic way, but when I told her I would remove her but mine was not a spam, she replied with the "real review site" comment... so no, I believe she is really thinking my email is spam, according to her