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Franco-English, as most of their support answers are. You'd think they could hire one native English speaker, to handle support for the REST of Canada, if not the US customers. |
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05-18-2013, 09:33 PM | #377 | |
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From her website: Spoiler:
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05-18-2013, 09:38 PM | #378 | |
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Not that I'd be much interested in a book where the "hero" kills his girlfriend during sex, then proceeds to choke other women later in the book. ETA: And some think the entire thing is a publicity stunt, to drive sales. If she wanted to just pull it, she could have (and discussed later). |
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05-18-2013, 09:40 PM | #379 | |
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All I got say is she needs to suck it up. If she has a problem with people who are negative about her writing she will never make it in this business. By pulling her book she is putting a nail in the coffin of what could be a successful career. I see this as a temper-tantrum "You don't like me so I'm taking my toys and going home." kind of attitude. This doesn't sit well me and I don't think I will even bother reading any of her other books. |
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05-18-2013, 09:43 PM | #380 | |
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I wouldn't read the book either. I was sorta interested in her bad boys series though. |
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05-18-2013, 09:47 PM | #381 |
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I absolutely think that! I haven't ever read anything by her (though I do own one of her books) so don't know what her work is like, but she sure got a LOT of people to 1-click today! Pessimistic maybe, but from her list of works on goodreads she has to have had bad feedback before.
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05-18-2013, 10:00 PM | #382 | |
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Anyways I chalk it up to a lesson learned for me, I bought it at Kobo and can't return it, if I'd bought it at Amazon I would have returned it the second I got to that part of the book, for the same reasons I mentioned above. I was just trying to let people know who wanted it what the deal was without spoiling the plot. But there we have it. This whole thing has made me feel very uncomfortable and I hope nobody's offended that I brought it up. I was trying to be considerate of all people's tastes here and not offend one side or the other. And I'm going to try to stop babbling now and go read. |
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05-18-2013, 10:10 PM | #383 | |
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Reading more about it at Amazon....Oh geez this book was just published a few days ago. This is defiantly a publicity stunt unless she really is that sensitive. If that is the case she can pretty much kiss her career goodbye. We all know what happens to authors that can't take a negative review.
I've gone through all 1 and 2 star reviews at GR and Amazon unless I missed one. I don't see anything that would make the author pull the book. So my opinion of this is a publicity stunt stands. Last edited by Blossom; 05-18-2013 at 10:31 PM. |
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05-19-2013, 04:43 AM | #387 |
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Thank you to all. I had a wonderful birthday. Got to play with my new nook accessory, a bluetooth speaker system. It works wonderfully. I have pre orderd the new Nalini Singh audio book. I love those Psy-Changling books. I even noticed that this book is longer than the rest so that gives me a good long listen. I will be spending the day figuring out what books to get. I set aside 20 to get my time-travel books I found earlier this month. So I will have plenty of books to read this summer by the pool.
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So even if it wasn't meant as a publicity stunt, it sure worked out that way. I remember a print erotic romance author (before erotic romance really blossomed) who had major issue writing her second book because she got so many obnoxious letters on her first book. (It was published in mass market, with no indication that it was an erotic historical, so that might explain the responses.) Her second book was delayed for many months, and the reviews were lukewarm, perhaps because people had waited for so long that their expectations had been raised really high. So some authors do have problems about negative responses like that. |
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I have some 35% off codes from the current Kobo contest that I won't be using. I'd like to give my fellow romance hoarders first crack at them before posting on the Kobo thread. If you want any, send me a PM and your wish will be grant.
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