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]

Ryan, I was like, uhm, maybe I did something wrong? I checked if maybe I didn't send the email to all the contacts, and nope, it was only the 20 concerned authors. Then, more or less, I understood she thinks I'm spamming here since 2 WEEKS ago I sent here the message where I announced the Rainbow Awards. So see, 2 emails according to her is spam.

[ryan field (from livejournal.com)]

That makes no sense at all. I received 700 e-mails last month from one author, no joke. I almost fell over sideways. But I checked it out and the author had made a mistake and didn't do it on purpose. No one else who received the 700 e-mails complained and no one said or did anything negative.

And I get about fifty messages a day from people with announcements and notices. Spam, to me, is when someone is trying to sell me medicine from Canada, or someone is trying to get my bank account number in some third world country. I don't consider author/reviewer announcements as spam.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

I was not in the best mood today, any other day I would have simply deleted her from my list and forgot everything, but today I wanted to understand and sincerely she really behaved like I was a spammer from hell. Now she replied to me the comment on the real review site was not about me (but if it was not why making it) and that I have an hostile attitude.