My comments on ebooks and POD self-publishing are generating some heat at a lit agent's assistant's blog. My layout makes some reader's eyes bleed. Blogs might not be a good place for me to hang out, but the .before Country preview PDF has been downloaded over 1500 times (or the file has been hit at least that many times). The previous high in one day was 150 after some coverage at J A Konrath's blog, and he quite liked the layout.

I should have the new layout in the PDF in a couple of days.

UPDATE: The non eye bleeder PDF review copy is now online. The old one had been 'downloaded' a total of 2806 times. Might be a few typos left though, I'll get onto them before Christmas.

REQUEST: Someone wanted the eye bleeder version. No. I don't know why either. It's here but don't do it, you'll go blind.

FOLLOW-UP: The Rejector has followed up the heat with a new post.

Allow me to be clear about this - if you post a link to your crappy POD or eBook, and I respond by saying something that can be easily translated into, "Uh, you suck. No, as a writer. You might suck as a person, too, but I don't know that for sure yet," I am not offering constructive criticism. Do not thank me. Stop writing. Very few responders to the previous posts's thread posting of a .pdf novel actually meant to offer constructive criticism. They meant to insult you. I just don't know how to say it more simply. We are not laughing with you, we are laughing at you.

I respond here.

MORE EXPLANATION: at 101reasonstostopwriting.blogspot.com I have to refute stuff I didn't say, find my responses in the comments. (That's a beta blogger thing so the last link might not work for you, so the article is here )

ALSO: The completely out of context stuff at the rejector was originally posted at Issendai's livejournal as comments which the blog owner deleted (about 4 comments and not just mine) as i am a spammer, apparently google told Issendia this. Messy Hoot.

More OLD SCHOOL ramblings about when to stop writing where I try and say that it's nice but-oh-so-yesterday, the blogger tries to compare apples with oranges and says that apples just are not citrus-y enough.

This blogger says it all better than me however.

Happy New Year

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