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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc
I'm sorry - I don't have time to read your post - could you please call me and read it to me? I'm feeling special tonight!  |
MWAHAHAHAHAHA! Well done, you!
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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
Sounds like this person may not be worth working with at all. Just say Nope?
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I did. She actually had the unmitigated gall to write back and say, "well, if you're
that busy, why don't you hire some more people?"
Right, because hiring someone to replace me, as the primary contact, the person who answers all the questions, etc. (that self-publishers NEVER bother to educate themselves on, which, BTW, is not my freaking job, I must add), is easy peasy and cheap. (sigh).
She clearly thinks that it's like hiring fast-food workers; yup, those book layout designers and eBook coders, they're a dime-a-dozen, especially with the phone skills needed to deal with the likes of her.
I mean...
Bejaysus. Sure, I could do that--and then we'd need to, at a minimum, double our prices. But, bygod, SHE could get a phone call.
The hubris and self-centeredness is really breathtaking. And, we have the "no calls" thing, dead-nuts-center in a popup, on the website--so why the hell did she insist
in the first freaking place? When she'd clearly already seen it, because she just had to insist?
(According to her CV--not making this up--she spent
FIVE YEARS working on a single book. For someone else, mind you, not her own book.
We have 100+ books in production
at any given moment. I can tell without going one minute deeper that this would have turned into a nightmare. Oil and water.)
Hitch