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Originally Posted by ChaoZ
Maybe this is just me, but when I see an author I'm not familiar with aggressively promote his or her own material through forums and social media, a part of me automatically casts a negative view on the book.
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I feel that way when writers make statements about the quality of their books-- terms that reviewers would make, but which
can not be made objectively by the author. Like "
entertaining" and "
edge of your seat thriller" and "
humorous" and "
like no other."
Descriptions like that just cry out "hubris." Authors, you
can not determine if your own writing is "entertaining" or an "edge-of-the-seat thriller" or "humorous." You may
want your book to be like that-- you may
think your book is like that. But you aren't in an objective position to determine that. Your skills and your judgment might just plain suck. And as for "like no other" and the often used "unique?" Just because
you have never read something similar to your story does
not mean nobody has ever written it.