End of the Challenge
So, the Guttersnipe challenge is officially over ^_^ Thank you everyone for participating. This has been the most fun I have ever had launching a book :D I would so do it again next time I self publish something.
Controversy, what controversy?
I called Guttersnipe controversial because that's what publishers told me. Readers will hate it for these reasons...
In truth, they were right about everything they thought readers wouldn't like but so far it seems they were wrong about how people would respond to those 'problems'. The reaction has been more *shrug* than rant. Nobody demanded their money back, nobody one-starred it (so far hahaha), most everyone had lovely things to say about the writing and characters. Maybe that's because I hang out here a lot and nobody wants to hurt my feelings? Perhaps, but then not everybody who participated is someone I know and even the people I do know had no problem being brutally honest in their status updates *lol*
Well ... I look a little silly now, don't I? ^_^ Okay, maybe this isn't the worst problem to have hehe.
You cannot make me make you pay for my books
Would you believe six free copies were never claimed? I have no idea why someone would enter a contest for a free book, win a free book and then not even bother to claim that free book but there you have it. Hell, there's no DRM on Smashwords so if you didn't like it you could have at least bootlegged it!
Well I said I was giving away twenty and-- damnit-- I meant it *lol* ... so here's what I think I'm going to do. Tell me who among your friends you would give a copy to if it was yours to give away and lets see if we can't find six people who don't mind giving a book about rape and sex slavery a good home :D
All your questions will be answered on Friday
See originally I was going to do something about people's reaction -vs- publishers' predictions about people's reaction. But as it turns out reactions weren't nearly strong enough to make that interesting (boo) so instead I went through the must common points of confusion and questions and wrote about that :D It's a much better post ... less likely to get my publisher to put a hit out on my life *lol*
On to the tour!
Today I go on tour. First stop, Dani's site Slashfiction, followed by Cup 'o Porn and Chicks & Dicks. See you guys around!
Controversy, what controversy?
I called Guttersnipe controversial because that's what publishers told me. Readers will hate it for these reasons...
In truth, they were right about everything they thought readers wouldn't like but so far it seems they were wrong about how people would respond to those 'problems'. The reaction has been more *shrug* than rant. Nobody demanded their money back, nobody one-starred it (so far hahaha), most everyone had lovely things to say about the writing and characters. Maybe that's because I hang out here a lot and nobody wants to hurt my feelings? Perhaps, but then not everybody who participated is someone I know and even the people I do know had no problem being brutally honest in their status updates *lol*
Well ... I look a little silly now, don't I? ^_^ Okay, maybe this isn't the worst problem to have hehe.
You cannot make me make you pay for my books
Would you believe six free copies were never claimed? I have no idea why someone would enter a contest for a free book, win a free book and then not even bother to claim that free book but there you have it. Hell, there's no DRM on Smashwords so if you didn't like it you could have at least bootlegged it!
Well I said I was giving away twenty and-- damnit-- I meant it *lol* ... so here's what I think I'm going to do. Tell me who among your friends you would give a copy to if it was yours to give away and lets see if we can't find six people who don't mind giving a book about rape and sex slavery a good home :D
All your questions will be answered on Friday
See originally I was going to do something about people's reaction -vs- publishers' predictions about people's reaction. But as it turns out reactions weren't nearly strong enough to make that interesting (boo) so instead I went through the must common points of confusion and questions and wrote about that :D It's a much better post ... less likely to get my publisher to put a hit out on my life *lol*
On to the tour!
Today I go on tour. First stop, Dani's site Slashfiction, followed by Cup 'o Porn and Chicks & Dicks. See you guys around!
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