Ron Seybold

Author of the memoir Stealing Home and the thriller Viral Times, book editor and author coach, journalist. Growing stories every day.

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@adamm0rgan @lesliepwriter Help me understand how FT is important to this issue. Book reviewers are paid an astonishingly small sum for their output. Gig writing, and I mean that in all due respect, props up today’s review engines, right? Who’s your article for?

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@adamm0rgan @lesliepwriter Help me understand how FT is important to this issue. Book reviewers are paid an astonishingly small sum for their output. Gig writing, and I mean that in all due respect, props up today’s review engines, right? Who’s your article for?

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@adamm0rgan @Heminator @lesliepwriter Ever reviewed a book for pay? Hard work to take on full time. Yes, the papers once paid for this. Not anymore. So it’s a gig job now. Are the reviews fewer in number? Reviews are not often used in book marketing by now. Raves only, logrolling between authors at allied publishers.

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@adamm0rgan @lesliepwriter Then X pumps in an ad for a book with uncredited review blurbs, invoking the soul of Jack Reacher. Right here in a discussion of book reviewing. You can’t make this kind of stuff up. The irony…

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New Post: An interactive tour of Texas indie bookstores https://t.co/Dsp1mG6xKi

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New Post: Make story stakes personal https://t.co/jgWKghgMwz

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New Post: World-building serves our story understanding https://t.co/Py2Scvw12p

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New Post: It’s time to drop the vanity https://t.co/ChpLGjfYRa

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New Post: Play games to create stories https://t.co/J6AnbAPa80

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New Post: How to avoid dialog debris https://t.co/bd0l0ohaVz

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Updated Post: How to make self-publishing a job https://t.co/kkTDC5Bo5B

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New Post: How to move along a book in a blitz https://t.co/u5Ztr1uIRm

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New Post: How to Show Readers True Love https://t.co/H3yMrMNv1T

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New Post: Using your eyes to write https://t.co/SjP6oodh71

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New Post: Ways to find and vet agents https://t.co/jMs4ZJENDy

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New Post: How to Show Spunk with Sentences https://t.co/cGH6cqYgUL

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New Post: Feeding stories a then, and a now https://t.co/UDhN8hJe9a

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New Post: How to Keep Your Book Strike-proof https://t.co/XTZ22qhNps

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New Post: Make more room for shorter books https://t.co/mYfLaIX6tt