Month: April 2018
Facebook Floods Amazon With Fake Reviews
As you know, comments on an Amazon page can make or break a product. That’s why the company says that more than 99 percent of its reviews are legitimate because they are written by real shoppers who aren’t paid for them.
But a Washington Post examination by Elizabeth Dwoskin and Craig Timberg found a majority of reviews in certain categories with certain characteristics such as repetitive wording that people probably cut and paste in. In other words, fake reviews.
Amazingly enough, many of these fraudulent reviews originate on Facebook, where sellers seek shoppers on dozens of networks, including Amazon Review Club and Amazon Reviewers Group. Shoppers are asked to give glowing feedback in exchange for money or other compensation.
The Law Of Unintended Consequences
As I’ve been reporting (Amazon Steps Up Its Antifraud Efforts, and Amazon Rewrites Review Policy), Amazon has banned paying for reviews
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34 Calls for Submissions in May 2018 – Paying Markets – by Erica Verrillo…
Who Will Interpret the Data?
Just found another blogger to follow! 🙂
Who will Interpret the Data? If we don’t nurture those who are charged with making sense of the data, we will die. For the evil ones have plans of their own. We must infuse, instruct, educate with a focus on values, for only those who value humanness will be able to interpret the data in ways that won’t end us, burying us with their weight, while the evil ones blame us for our own death.
Make people own their shame. Make people own their greatness. Make people own their true selves, not the one that matches the myth that we are most comfortable with, because of the ‘selfies’ we believe in. We believe that we are the selfies that we take, forgetting that the images are posed, adjusted, fake-ly constructed, perfected images of self, that are nothing like who we really are. And we believe in the ‘selfies’ because they…
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How to Write a Proper Short Story Cover Letter
I love this blog post about writing a proper short story cover letter by Alex! Cover letters shouldn’t get in the way of the story and they should be a great way of introducing you to the editors who you want to consider your work.
As an editor I see a lot of bad cover letters. I can’t help but think folks are following some bad advice out there, so I wrote a thing that might help. It’s long and it’s a little ranty and cranky (because I’ve seen a lot of bad cover letters in the last month), but I hope it will also be helpful.
Note that this advice is specific to genre magazines and anthologies and short fiction. Novel submissions play by a different set of rules, and there may be a slightly different etiquette in literary submissions and other genres. But, if you write and submit science fiction, fantasy, and horror short stories, the following essay is for you.
How to Write a Proper Short Story Cover Letter
The most important fact to remember about cover letters is this: the best cover letter in the world is not really going to…
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Commenting on Other Blogs: What Works, What Doesn’t
Useful for building a more interactive blog. 🙂
Please vote for my blog: Best Newcomer 2018
Consider voting for this new blogger! 🙂
Hi everyone! I have been lucky enough to be nominated in the “Best Newcomer” category for the annual Blogger’s Bash Awards to be held in London on April 30. It would be awesome if you could head to the website, scroll down to the Best Newcomer category and vote for me (Or, whoever you think is the most deserved!).
CLICK HERE TO VOTE!
The Bash is organised by Sacha Black and her tremendous team of fellow bloggers. Sacha is an extremely dedicated author who runs a highly engaging and interactive website. Check out her blog by clicking here!
Best of luck to all the nominees and thank you for all of your support! Who knows, maybe I’ll see you in April 2019!
My name is Gregg Savage and, every night when the house is quiet, I write and publish a free children’s story at dailytales.com.au for you to share and…
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Uploading your Self-Publishing Paperback to KDP Print
Relevant with easy-to-follow steps.
Monique L. Desir 