#Authors – Why Many Book Promos are like Driving a Car

Posted on by Chris The Story Reading Ape

article-1320101-0B9A7A29000005DC-601_306x378

Many authors do their book promos as if they’re driving a car.

The most common way is the ‘Drive everywhere at high speed’ author.

(Post everywhere as fast and often as possible)

Another (probably related) seems to be the ‘Jumping the red STOP lights’ type of author.

(Sending friendship / follow automatic greetings of BUY MY / LIKE MY regardless of the other person’s feelings, intentions or the fact that their only crime was to express an interest)

Finally, the latest growing craze is to ‘Park illegally’.

(Posting their book adverts under other people’s posts, especially on Facebook)

The authors who do any, or all, the above just don’t seem to realise that they are nothing short of being STUPID (expletive deleted) PESTS – and more seriously (for them) HAVE LOST MANY MORE SALES THAN THEY GAINED…

They’ve also been driving like maniacs through heavy traffic and left a lot of casualties in their wake – Other authors who have been promoting in a more civilized manner (Driving within the speed limits and being considerate to the other road users and pedestrians).

Please forgive this little piece of soapbox protestations, but I’m getting SICK of having to DELETE and REPORT them to Twitter and Facebook…

But BE ASSURED I will continue to report and delete these IDIOTS…

 

 

61 thoughts on “#Authors – Why Many Book Promos are like Driving a Car”

  2. Hey, you guys, I’ve been enjoying your chat. Whether it qualifies as a ‘limited chat in public’ or not, I’ll leave up to you 🙂 but I was finding it interesting as I am a comparative Twitter Twit and only Twitter Tweet a teeny tad 🙂

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply

  4. I hope I’m learning the rules well enough that I don’t make those mistakes in future. It’s so sad when some know them but refuse to follow them. Thanks Chris for making it clear what’s acceptable and what isn’t.

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply

  5. So very true…none of us are going to get to the finish line any sooner 🙂 It is a joint effort just to build the SEO’s for each other for mutual benefit!! Unfortunately, some people just don’t get it!! Thanks for posting, Chris!!

    Liked by 2 people

    Reply

  10. Reblogged this on Books: Publishing, Reading, Writing and commented:
    Chris The Story Reading Ape with some brilliant insight as to Why Many Book Promos are like Driving a Car. (And I’m reblogging this because recently I posted, Here, let me help you with that promotion … explaining how authors can receive promotion for their own books by promoting other authors, and I actually received a comment from a previously unknown-to-me author promoting his book and asking for reviews. I deleted the comment. So this author was definitely guilty of “parking illegally” but I would add to that, he also guilty of neither reading nor obeying the traffic signs.

    Liked by 2 people

    Reply

DON'T BE SHY - LEAVE A REPLY

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.