A Blog by Any Other Name…
So, what is this, an opinion page? A place to reveal secrets? You got me, but if you got this far and I got this far, we’re good. You know, you get to a certain age and you realize you don’t have time for playing stupid head games. My list could go on forever. How about yours?
Here’s the thought for the day:
Why are they called eyes? I mean those things on potatoes…
Here’s lookin’ at you!
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More Deception is in the birthing room. Some chapters are written. Questions need to be answered:
Will Nick Hampton make it? There are life-threatening opportunistic pathogens lurking that can attack his immune-compromised body. Will he be able to fight them off?
Will the triumvirate of other pathogens – Dr. Charles Loomis, Neil Hawthorne, and Anton Gregory – ever see justice?
Are there any more deceptions between Craig and Tera? Both of them are hiding a past.
To be continued…
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Life’s ugly lesson
Someone somewhere saw an ad for my book. Lots of someones, 30 trolls fawning and flattering and saying they can propel me to fame. There are 3 I was interested in. The contact person seemed legit, arguments good. Hmm. Now I am told the reviews I paid for are allegedly being stalled by Amazon, “Amazon is being strict and not putting them up. How about they go on Goodreads and you can reimburse the cost later.” BS. Already paid for those first ones….
Buyer beware. There was a whole lot of action on this website from Nigeria recently. Likely connection because bank transfer only to San Francisco, the whole crew has biblical names, Emmanuel, Ezekiel, Moses, which is likely from that location, based on what I know working with missionary priests. Blah blah blah. Sending constant notes “I haven’t heard from you.” “Sorry you didn’t hear from me, out of town for a funeral” - except I did get messages from her, automated? And all signed off “Warmly.” No one from here writes that way. What reviews that allegedly were written and shared with me were using all the same bland words, as if thrown into the air and reassembled by AI to convince me it was different people. I get the dumbshit award for falling for this. I have 2 or 3 incidents in my story that legitimate reviewers — not speed readers, not AI — comment on, have commented on privately to me. Guess who hasn’t mentioned them.
The second review group with a woman named like a character from a stupid futuristic game or an avatar, if you will. She dared to say she didn’t think the payment was received. When I told her I had a transaction number, she backed off. And I haven’t seen a review…yet. Will I?
Then the alleged VP for the “Review Community” contacted me for an “investigation.” Her missives went the same way, same words. She allegedly sent out an urgent notice to the review community about the book Deception. Actually, I am pretty sure it was a warning; a culprit contacted me and begged, “Tell me you didn’t say it was me. Don’t send me back home.” And then she took the Lord’s name in vain, “I swear by Almighty God.” Back home? Is she held in bondage? Perhaps I should be contacting ICE about all this.
Wonder if I can write this up and sell it to Writer’s Digest, Author’s Publish. Do they know all this? Do they participate? Anyway, I have shut down the email they all were using. Too bad, so sad.
Wonder which literary journal would dare to print such an account. It makes the whole industry look bad and I won’t even go into the obvious control of what gets published and placed and promoted according to the topics of the day to be promoted. No one thinks outside the box, or that maybe people want something different.
To be continued…