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Old 07-11-2017, 07:45 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy View Post
Oh no worries. I am sure you are surrounded by other warm and fuzzy authors.
A few years ago, any book I downloaded had an approximate wait time of two years +. Then I did an independent study and got rid of 90% in under a week.
(Underlining mine.) This is exactly why an author should fear the dreaded TBR list. At first it seems like a good thing, "great, someone is planning to read my book"; then it's like, "well, they might eventually"; then the realisation hits that being on a TBR means the reader has put the author in the "I've already got one of his books somewhere" category, and they probably won't look at the author again until, in theory, they reach it in the TBR, but in practice the TBR either keeps growing or gets cleaned out and bang! the author has reached TBR oblivion.

(Much the same can be said of all those people that tell me "sounds great, I must read it." As my wife commented, the equivalent of being friend-zoned.)

I hope this doesn't sound like I am sulking about this, I'm not. I do the same thing (or used to, these days I tend get what I want to read now - specials be damned). But TBR oblivion is a fact that all hopeful authors need to be aware of.
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