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Originally Posted by GlenBarrington
Your points are all valid. However many book purchases are impulse buys, and when an author writes a really killer promotional post with knowledge of the subject and obvious passion; I have, in the past at least, assumed this was an indication of writing and organizational skill, and that the level of quality of the promotional post was a reasonable indication of the quality of the book being promoted.
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You make a great point: some writers are better at the marketing of their book than they are at writing stories. Those are two different types of writing that take skill (and practice) to master. On the other hand, some writers stink at marketing, but they can write a story just fine.