http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2007 by the authors Sat, 7 Apr 2007 15:14:37 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/04/07/114421.php#comment-572157 Wow. Great stuff. I am one of the readers who has been talking about Ian's book everywhere I can. In fact, I got kicked off a dating message board because they thought I was spamming! I have been following this interview along as he put up the links on his site. I'm not a writer or a blogger, but I am an avid reader. I live in OH but have been on consulting assignment in Chicago, where I heard about Ian's book because as Simon points out, he is marketing it everywhere. I had no idea what authors go thru and applaud you all for doing it. Without you, there would be nothing for people like me to read! I found the comments about publishers and authors being responsible for the decline in literature to be very interesting and make sense. It is getting harder and harder to find good books. More and more they are just about marketing. For instance, I recently read "The Average American Male" which is just horrible and its publisher spent over $10,000 to market it with videos on YouTube. Ian's book is so much better and along the same genre. $10,000 for it could really make it take off. Yet, it goes unread and unconsidered by such a big publisher or they wanted it changed to the crappy book they are pushing. I hope that "God is a Woman: Dating Disasters" does very well. We should all get copies, if for no other reason than to show publishers this IS a book people want and IS what readers want to read. Maybe it could do for books what independent film as done for movies. If it wasn't for independent film, all movies would be "White Chicks" now; the big places only make good films because of the pressure from small films to compete with them for awards. Thank you both Simon and Ian for the insight. I want you to know I'm doing my part; I just talked my friends into buying a bunch of copies off Amazon for their bachelor and bachelorette parties! Thank you to all authors and aspiring ones for your hardwork. Lord knows I couldn't take punches like these. 572157@blogcritics.org Sat, 7 Apr 2007 15:14:37 EDT