Amateurish!

There are many ways that a book or author may be perceived as amateurish.

Many of these correspond to doing what seems intuitive or convenient:

• Commenting on reviews.
• Not realizing that the cover is a visual representation of what quality to expect.
• Including the word “by” before your name.
• Using the default settings in Microsoft Word.
• Creating indents with the spacebar or using the Enter key to pagebreak.

Others are more subtle:

• Not seeking editorial reviews to earn buyer confidence.
• Typing two spaces after a period.
• Poor font selection.
• Not using Word’s style functions and First Line Indent from the Paragraph menu.
• Getting a free .wordpress.com site instead of buying a domain or using .org.

Add to this at least 90% of the things done in the name of “marketing.”

Too Far?

If it’s not professional, does that make it amateurish?

Unfortunately, I see comments about other books and…