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]

From what I know, she is not one of your authors, so don't worry ;-) and she is not even an author from a major publisher, so I really don't know where this attitude of her could come from.

[m-barnette.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure my authors are all better behaved than that. We've had some lengthy discussions regarding reviews and reviewers so they do know better.

This is why some publishers stay small, their authors wind up making bad impressions on people/readers that they never have strong sales.

Don't worry about what happened. You just go ahead and do what you do best, write great reviews!

And in case no one has thanked you recently, I will.

THANK YOU ELISA FOR YOUR GREAT REVIEWS!!!

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

LOL, Thank you!

the strange thing is that since I'm pretty sure there are many on her circle of friends who I consider online friends, and moreover, more than once the author she co-author with sent me her books to review, so I'm pretty sure she knew who I was, but she decided to ignore that. maybe she didn't like my reviews ;-)

[m-barnette.livejournal.com]

Okay, now I know who she is for sure. I wouldn't worry about her at all, she's been burning a lot of bridges lately, including the one with her writing partner.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

No, I'm pretty sure she is not the one you are thinking to, since she has still a good relationship with her co-author (from what I see online). To give you a tip first name J. If she is the one you are thinking that is enough for you to understand, otherwise is not enough to pick her out from the mass ;-)