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Originally Posted by ficbot
Does anyone else find themselves turned off of a potentially interesting book because of an over-bearing author?
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I haven't read recent books by Cory Doctorow, because I got fed up the way he promotes them on BoingBoing.net.
I know, I know, BoingBoing *is* his blog, and he can write anything he wants there. I also know that I do not have to go there every morning to see what interesting and weird things he and his staff came up with. But still, I do not plan reading his heavily promoted books in a foreseeable future.
As for the "author self promotion" forum. There is nothing wrong with authors trying to entice me to read their work. I even like the ... intimacy ... of such thing. Stephen King would never answer my well meant remarks about his book ;-). Not now, when he is famous, anyway. But, there IS such thing as too much of a good thing. There is big difference between constructive discussion with your readers and incessant bumping of your own thread.
(No, dear authors, I do not have in mind any particular thread ... ;-) ). I really do enjoy communicating directly with an author about what I like or dislike about a book. I even used to write critiques for site called Critters, but I was put off by many hops you have to jump through to actually get the book for reading (and writing meaningful critique for). But if you need a really critical eye, dear authors, Critters is a good place to hang around.