Comments on: 5 Ways to Make a Blogger Want to Stab Us in the Face https://authorkristenlamb.com/2016/06/5-ways-to-make-a-blogger-want-to-stab-us-in-the-face/ Author, Blogger, Social Media Jedi Sun, 14 Apr 2019 04:21:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 By: robintvale https://authorkristenlamb.com/2016/06/5-ways-to-make-a-blogger-want-to-stab-us-in-the-face/#comment-109360 Sun, 14 Apr 2019 04:21:20 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=19717#comment-109360 I might post a paragraph in here hoping you’ll spot something I haven’t—last time you did! <3—but to be so rude as to send an email without even using your name? Wow.

And I feel bad posting a snippet! (I know it's called something else when you take a part of your book and share it but my brain is mush, it's been a long day.) *Cough.*

I wish more people had better manners. I feel it's really imported to be kind to others not because we should but because that's the kind of person you are. *End mush session. If asked in person I admit nothing.* 😉

]]> By: Barbie Riccardelli https://authorkristenlamb.com/2016/06/5-ways-to-make-a-blogger-want-to-stab-us-in-the-face/#comment-80206 Sat, 12 Aug 2017 01:51:44 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=19717#comment-80206 Hi Kristen. Yours is the only blog I read on a regular basis….why? Because you are funny and clever and honest. If you ever want to come to Utah and ski or whatever, let me know and I will host you.
That’s all. Have a great day.

]]> By: Carey https://authorkristenlamb.com/2016/06/5-ways-to-make-a-blogger-want-to-stab-us-in-the-face/#comment-67472 Wed, 31 Aug 2016 11:06:48 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=19717#comment-67472 I’d also add that a writer requesting a review have a freaking media kit ready, just in case a blogger decides to take a chance. I may decide to read the book and/or just do a spotlight but I don’t have time to search the net, find your bio, get your links and so on……just to help you sell your book when I get nothing in return. Do us all a favor and put a packet together.

]]> By: xxsarahcaroline https://authorkristenlamb.com/2016/06/5-ways-to-make-a-blogger-want-to-stab-us-in-the-face/#comment-67471 Fri, 15 Jul 2016 07:15:55 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=19717#comment-67471 I love your distaste for literary fiction! Just another reason to love your blog.

]]> By: Kam Salisbury https://authorkristenlamb.com/2016/06/5-ways-to-make-a-blogger-want-to-stab-us-in-the-face/#comment-67470 Tue, 12 Jul 2016 11:14:42 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=19717#comment-67470 Thanks for blogging on this topic Kristen! I am a new writer and it is so easy to believe that mass form emails will solve a laborious task.

(Tech observation: this blog page crashes on iOS 9.3.2 after about one minute in both Twitter app web view and opened directly in Safari. I had to type this up and quickly copy-paste it to post.)

]]> By: Calisa Rhose https://authorkristenlamb.com/2016/06/5-ways-to-make-a-blogger-want-to-stab-us-in-the-face/#comment-67469 Thu, 07 Jul 2016 06:59:23 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=19717#comment-67469 I keep getting review requests randomly too. I don’t review on my blog (I think I’ve done maybe 3 in ten years and none recently), but people email me from my site. Maybe I ended on some list too? IDK. One in particular irritated me. He asked if we could exchange books and we’d both get a nice review and sell a book at the same time from the deal.

He went on to explain how it would work. I would go to (link provided) and purchase his $6 book, THEN let him know I did, so he could go purchase mine.

Three major things wrong here.
1. I had no guarantee he’d go buy my $2.99 novel AFTER I got his–and why should he, after all?
2. His was pure sci-fi… I write pure sensual contemporary romance– and don’t even read or watch sci-fi if I can get out of it. (No need to get the rope folks. It’s not that I dislike it, I just don’t ‘get’ the genre so it usually loses me two words in every time. 😉 )
3. I don’t blog reviews.

Other things wrong with this?
*He had no clue I write romance until I asked if he reads the genre! How could he not guess that just by my website header???
*He said he’d never read a romance, but “was sure he’d like mine anyway.”
*When I asked out right how I could be certain he would actually buy, read AND review MY book (remember-a genre he admitted he’d never read) even if I got his…he stopped replying.

Just. No.

So the main reason I read through the comments, besides for the laughs, was to see how many would request a win after you said, ““Ugh, I wish I could win your contest. I am just so stuck!” And guess what? I will message and say, “Hey, send me ten pages.”!”

LOL Let me know when to send you those pages, will ya, Blogger Lady?
Sorry! Couldn’t resist. 😉

]]> By: Peter Rey https://authorkristenlamb.com/2016/06/5-ways-to-make-a-blogger-want-to-stab-us-in-the-face/#comment-67468 Tue, 05 Jul 2016 22:00:57 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=19717#comment-67468 Kristen, I truly appreciate your posts. In particular, I agree with you about the paramount importance of reciprocity. It should be a given, yet…

]]> By: annerallen https://authorkristenlamb.com/2016/06/5-ways-to-make-a-blogger-want-to-stab-us-in-the-face/#comment-67467 Tue, 05 Jul 2016 16:33:24 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=19717#comment-67467 In reply to angelaackerman1.

Angela–Wise words. Why not put yourself in the top 5% and follow directions? What a concept! Haha.

]]> By: Author Kristen Lamb https://authorkristenlamb.com/2016/06/5-ways-to-make-a-blogger-want-to-stab-us-in-the-face/#comment-67466 Mon, 04 Jul 2016 21:51:36 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=19717#comment-67466 In reply to Author Jackie Wang.

Awww, THANK YOU! I really appreciate hearing that ((HUGS))

]]> By: successbmine https://authorkristenlamb.com/2016/06/5-ways-to-make-a-blogger-want-to-stab-us-in-the-face/#comment-67465 Mon, 04 Jul 2016 20:34:46 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=19717#comment-67465 Great advice, Kristen. You always have good things to share with your readers, and a most engaging way of wording it. At church yesterday we heard a lot about honoring others, and I think this whole thing about asking people to review a book without doing the necessary homework shows a lack of honor to those people. They appear to be only self-serving, not caring how inconvenient it may be for others. I am not a book reviewer though I have done a few reviews, mostly on Amazon and mostly for books written by people I have been introduced to online, sometimes at their personal request (sometimes by phone). I have no published books as yet, though I am close to uploading my novel on CreateSpace, but I would hope that readers would volunteer to do reviews on the basis of what they think about the book, not because I have attempted to coerce them.

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