The Ellen Show

Why are you asking just her show? You should contact as many people as you can to get a chance to speak in front of a live audience. Just appealing to one person only isn't going to work in your favor.

Laura
 
dlh1025 said:
Howdy!

If you'd like to see me get on The Ellen Show and to help promote my first novel, "Blood Blossom," please contact Ellen at ellenreception@ellentv.com and put "Attention: Human Interests" in the subject header.

You can also contact her at http://www.ellentv.com/be-on-the-show/10/

Many thanks! :wave:
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I agree with Lau2046.
I have a friend who wrote a book years ago. I read it and I forced myself to get through it. She self-published it and she is smart but her book wasn't good or smartly written. She asked me to write a good review on her book. I couldn't write a good review because the book was mainly written by her husband (I know the difference) I wrote something brief but somewhat positive only and I swore I'd never do that again.

You're in a relatively small forum. Hopefully, you're elsewhere with so many social media sites and can spread the word. I wish you the sincerest best of luck.
 
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Lau2046 said:
Why are you asking just her show? You should contact as many people as you can to get a chance to speak in front of a live audience. Just appealing to one person only isn't going to work in your favor.

Laura
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I'm in Los Angeles, CA, and most of the shows are in New York and elsewhere. I don't have the necessary means to travel at this time. But, The Ellen Show reaches a very wide audience on a national scale. Figured it'd be a good start. Then, when I can afford to, I could go on other shows across the nation. :cool2:
 
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NYNY said:
I agree with Lau2046.
I have a friend who wrote a book years ago. I read it and I forced myself to get through it. She self-published it and she is smart but her book wasn't good or smartly written. She asked me to write a good review on her book. I couldn't write a good review because the book was mainly written by her husband (I know the difference) I wrote something brief but somewhat positive only and I swore I'd never do that again.

You're in a relatively small forum. Hopefully, you're elsewhere with so many social media sites and can spread the word. I wish you the sincerest best of luck.
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Was your friend's self-published book professionally edited? The #1 biggest mistake that new self-published authors make is not having their manuscript professionally edited by a professional editor. I've looked at a few self-published books online and can tell right off the bat that they weren't professionally edited. It is absolutely mandatory that all books, whether self-published or not, be professionally edited.

The proof is in the pudding with the fact that you were reluctant to write a good review, even though you were asked to. I'm fortunate that I had my manuscript professionally edited by a professional editor and have received 21 good reviews on Amazon.

I'm all over social media: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Amazon, BN.com, Good Reads, www.vamefunding.com/preternatural, plus local papers, etc. :cool2:
 
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I read a review about your book and one person that read it said you really should of had it edited .
 
whatdidyousay! said:
I read a review about your book and one person that read it said you really should of had it edited .
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Yes, one person said that, and I even showed it to my editor who laughed and said that this person did not know anything about editing (or even writing/reading). It was a rather unintelligent response to my book which was professionally edited (I should know, I shelled out $$$$ to have it edited and the editing process took a few months with several rounds). Plus, the finished product is starkly different from the initial manuscript and I learned a lot in the process. :)
 
dlh1025 said:
Was your friend's self-published book professionally edited? The #1 biggest mistake that new self-published authors make is not having their manuscript professionally edited by a professional editor. I've looked at a few self-published books online and can tell right off the bat that they weren't professionally edited. It is absolutely mandatory that all books, whether self-published or not, be professionally edited.

The proof is in the pudding with the fact that you were reluctant to write a good review, even though you were asked to. I'm fortunate that I had my manuscript professionally edited by a professional editor and have received 21 good reviews on Amazon.

I'm all over social media: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Amazon, BN.com, Good Reads, www.vamefunding.com/preternatural, plus local papers, etc. :cool2:
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Valid question and if memory serves me correctly (we're going back @30 years) she did. It was a time-consuming process. It doesn't mean they changed what was suggested, though. I'm also a technical writer (or was) throughout my career and as times changed in IT, I became an overpaid proofreader and editor because those doing the writers couldn't write in English.

You've hit the major media. I know a bad book when I read it. Her (really her husband's) book was reamed and I couldn't say a thing. I had a friend interested in the subject (not stupid) and she read it and liked it and I wondered about her.

Looking forward to seeing you on the air.
 
dlh1025 said:
Yes, one person said that, and I even showed it to my editor who laughed and said that this person did not know anything about editing (or even writing/reading). It was a rather unintelligent response to my book which was professionally edited (I should know, I shelled out $$$$ to have it edited and the editing process took a few months with several rounds). Plus, the finished product is starkly different from the initial manuscript and I learned a lot in the process. :)
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The person said you spelled ' stupid ' wrong a numbers of times , this that is not true you should have the person remove their comment.
 
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NYNY said:
Valid question and if memory serves me correctly (we're going back @30 years) she did. It was a time-consuming process. It doesn't mean they changed what was suggested, though. I'm also a technical writer (or was) throughout my career and as times changed in IT, I became an overpaid proofreader and editor because those doing the writers couldn't write in English.

You've hit the major media. I know a bad book when I read it. Her (really her husband's) book was reamed and I couldn't say a thing. I had a friend interested in the subject (not stupid) and she read it and liked it and I wondered about her.

Looking forward to seeing you on the air.
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Going back 30 years, did your friend go through the vanity press (what they called it back then)? Just wondering.

If I should end up on air, I'd let you know. :lol:
 
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whatdidyousay! said:
The person said you spelled ' stupid ' wrong a numbers of times , this that is not true you should have the person remove their comment.
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My editor advised me to ignore negative reviews otherwise there'd be a never-ending war of words. This particular reviewer apparently didn't get it that I purposely misspelled the word "stupid." The reason is that this is how one character in the book pronounces the word "stupid" when speaking. It's a quirky trait of this character. Some readers get it, some don't, and I'm perfectly okay with it. :D
 
dlh1025 said:
Going back 30 years, did your friend go through the vanity press (what they called it back then)? Just wondering.

If I should end up on air, I'd let you know. :lol:
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Howdy again. I apparently misspelled a word in one of my comments to you. But I'm leaning over to read my screen, so we'll forgive my more frequent typos these days.

I have the book in front of me. It says, "Uncorrected Galley" on the cover on a white-sticky label. What does that mean, please? I can take an educated guess but you're better at that than I.

I looked for Vanity Press somewhere in the book and it's not listed.* But if memory serves me correctly, it was common to see it back then. Any pointers to who published the book is pointless because all things point to my friend's "enterprise." Can I assume that's the equivalent of and LLC and exists in case someone wanted to sue her? Instead, my friend would be protected under the Limited Liability Company.

*Oops - copyright date is 1999/2000 . I guess it just feels like 30 years :) . They were still in NYC and moved out about one month prior to 9/11. I remember sitting on their couch in their apt. (upper East Side) and squirming invisibly as we talked about the book.

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One last sort of related comment. I've also taught classes - computer and sign language (not ASL). I received one negative review in a class, left it, and turned it in. The others were positive. It makes it a bit more realistic and I was able to easily explain why the one bad comment. When I look at reviews and they're all positive, I'm less prone to buying the product because no one and nothing is perfect. It would give me pause to wonder.
 
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whatdidyousay! said:
The person said you spelled ' stupid ' wrong a numbers of times , this that is not true you should have the person remove their comment.
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whatdidyousay! One person's ostensibly stupid comment isn't going to change one's mind about a book. It will, however, make the commenter look stoopid (har har). As a potential buyer, I'd ignore that comment and that's the reality of reviews and what I have to do now when looking at product reviews. Ya can't delete all negative reviews. It would look fishy and/or bad.
 
dlh1025 said:
My editor advised me to ignore negative reviews otherwise there'd be a never-ending war of words. This particular reviewer apparently didn't get it that I purposely misspelled the word "stupid." The reason is that this is how one character in the book pronounces the word "stupid" when speaking. It's a quirky trait of this character. Some readers get it, some don't, and I'm perfectly okay with it. :D
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I was wondering if that was the case , thanks for clearing it up. Then the person that wrote that review is the 'stupid' one.
 
NYNY said:
I have the book in front of me. It says, "Uncorrected Galley" on the cover on a white-sticky label. What does that mean, please? I can take an educated guess but you're better at that than I.

I looked for Vanity Press somewhere in the book and it's not listed.* But if memory serves me correctly, it was common to see it back then. Any pointers to who published the book is pointless because all things point to my friend's "enterprise." Can I assume that's the equivalent of and LLC and exists in case someone wanted to sue her? Instead, my friend would be protected under the Limited Liability Company.

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One last sort of related comment. I've also taught classes - computer and sign language (not ASL). I received one negative review in a class, left it, and turned it in. The others were positive. It makes it a bit more realistic and I was able to easily explain why the one bad comment. When I look at reviews and they're all positive, I'm less prone to buying the product because no one and nothing is perfect. It would give me pause to wonder.
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Hi again! Uncorrected proof describes the penultimate proof version (on paper or in digital form) yet to receive final author and publisher approval, the term appearing on the covers of advance reading copies (ARCs). I got this info from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galley_proof

Vanity Press was the name of a now-defunct self-publishing company. "Vanity press" is also a general term meaning "self-publishing company." The Vanity Press company (and vanity press in general) are notorious for ripping off unsuspecting self-publishing authors due to outrageous rates and poor quality in output of production (editing, printing, design, etc.).

I'm unable to answer your question pertaining to your friend's "enterprise" and whether you can assume that's the equivalent of an LLC. I'm not an expert in this area (sorry).

Negative reviews can be helpful (depending) as well as they can be harmful. It depends on various factors. Nothing is set in stone nor for certain. I was told that negative reviews can actually help increase book sales because it piques buyers' curiosity; it forces them to buy the book to find out why the book received negative reviews and to see how bad the book is. I've done that myself -- I'd read a negative review of a particular book, then buy it, only to actually LIKE it in the end! Then, I'd think, "What's wrong with that negative reviewer?" As they say, to each his/her own.
 
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NYNY said:
whatdidyousay! One person's ostensibly stupid comment isn't going to change one's mind about a book. It will, however, make the commenter look stoopid (har har). As a potential buyer, I'd ignore that comment and that's the reality of reviews and what I have to do now when looking at product reviews. Ya can't delete all negative reviews. It would look fishy and/or bad.
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NYNY nailed it right on the head (and then some)! Only online book retailers can remove negative comments (or even positive comments, if it should come to that). I loved how NYNY used the word "stoopid"! LOL!! Perfect! *wink*

I've read books with glowing rave reviews, only to be disappointed or flat-out dislike them, and the same is true vice-versa (read some badly panned books only to end up liking them). That's what makes the world go 'round. :eek3:
 
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