Hello!

I was wondering if you would like to review my book, Random Name.  The blurb is below.

[Big long blurb I’m too lazy to read.]

Have a nice day,

Random Author Person

I get these all of the time.  They’re form emails and they can turn a great day into a bad one because my blood starts to boil after reading only a few lines.  And it’s about time I’ve tackled them on my blog because they are rampant in the book blogging community.  Here are my thoughts on them:

Argument: “Names are hard to find!”

Us bloggers (or maybe it’s just me) are kind of vain.  Even if we don’t have our full names on our blogs, we usually have either our first names or pseudonyms on an ‘About’ page.  This is usually located in an easy-to-find tab next to the Home tab.  By not even bothering to use a blogger’s name in the greeting, authors are sending the message that we’re not worth their time.

Do you see the hypocrisy here?  Authors are expecting book bloggers to take hours out of their days to read their books but can’t even be bothered to spend a minute maximum finding the blogger’s name.  That’s not lazy, that’s rude. Continue reading →