Comments on: The Long, Slow Goodbye. (Or the meltdown resignation) http://zoewhitten.wordpress.com/2011/04/03/the-long-slow-goodbye/ A personal journal, with occasional reviews and stuff. Wed, 06 Mar 2013 17:33:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Zoe http://zoewhitten.wordpress.com/2011/04/03/the-long-slow-goodbye/#comment-1028 Mon, 04 Jul 2011 09:24:36 +0000 http://zoewhitten.wordpress.com/?p=2278#comment-1028 Oh, thank you for your sage advice. The promotions on YouTube, MySpace, Faceook, Twitter, Project Wonderful, link exchanges, and banner exchanges was a good start, and even though I’m now flat broke, I should just keep going and somehow spend money I don’t have. Then, and only then, might I hope to get…what, five more readers? Six? If I heed your advice, dare I hope for a book release that gets…10 sale on opening day? No, I already tried your plan, and all it did was leave me broke AND depressed. So this year, I’m spending my hard earned money on things I want. After years of spending every dime I have on my books and their promotions to get a limp response every single time, I’m ready to give up on readers. You’re all too good for me. I’m agreeing with you on that point, and I’m giving up my hopes of a pro career.

This isn’t my career anyway, it’s a hobby. It is one of many hobbies I have, but until this year, all of my other hobbies had to take a back seat to promoting my writing. Obsessing over my sales failures made me such a bitter person that I couldn’t even enjoy reading other people’s books anymore. I just spend all my time asking “Why did this make it, and my stuff flounders every time?” I was taking it out on my husband even though none of this was his fault. My health kept getting worse, and I was having more and more problems staying out of depression.

So, with all due respect to you—because I really don’t know you and wouldn’t presume to know anything about you—I’m going to just say that your advice only leads to an early grave for me. Now, if you are sticking around to read other blog entries, or possibly book blurbs, I’ll say welcome to the asylum. But if you’re going to wander off after reading this reply, I’ll just thank you for stopping by and leaving a comment. Cause you know, I never said you had to agree with me to leave a comment. You feel I’m wrong for deciding to invest more time and money in my other hobbies. Okay. I respect your opinion, but I’m still going to go with my plan and get back to my other hobbies. (And speaking of which, I really need to get in some more guitar practice this month.)

]]> By: Frankie http://zoewhitten.wordpress.com/2011/04/03/the-long-slow-goodbye/#comment-1027 Mon, 04 Jul 2011 06:19:30 +0000 http://zoewhitten.wordpress.com/?p=2278#comment-1027 if you spent more time promoting than ranting you might get further.

]]> By: Michael Kingswood http://zoewhitten.wordpress.com/2011/04/03/the-long-slow-goodbye/#comment-941 Tue, 05 Apr 2011 15:50:09 +0000 http://zoewhitten.wordpress.com/?p=2278#comment-941 Wow.

Hey, don’t hold back. Tell us how you really feel.
:)

If I may be so bold as to make a suggestion, leave your stuff up on Amazon. It doesn’t really hurt anything, and people in the future may decide they like it and start buying it a lot more. Or not. Maybe just a few will. Or none. There’s no chance if you take it down, though.

Best of luck. Guitar is a lot of fun!

]]> By: Dr. Zoidberg http://zoewhitten.wordpress.com/2011/04/03/the-long-slow-goodbye/#comment-940 Mon, 04 Apr 2011 22:18:22 +0000 http://zoewhitten.wordpress.com/?p=2278#comment-940 So…you only write to get reviews? And no one reviews, so fuck them?

Hmmmm….

If you’re a writer who writes because you like to write, then it shouldn’t matter a good goddamn if your material is reviewed.

]]> By: The Long, Slow Goodbye. (Or the meltdown resignation) (via Zoe Whitten’s Blog) « Kat Jordan's Blog http://zoewhitten.wordpress.com/2011/04/03/the-long-slow-goodbye/#comment-939 Mon, 04 Apr 2011 20:49:39 +0000 http://zoewhitten.wordpress.com/?p=2278#comment-939 [...] Four years ago, I started an experiment and self-published my first story through Lulu. It was full of typos and first-time mistakes, and ever since then I’ve strived to put together a better book. In those four years, I have reached the point where my self-published books were as good as the pro books, and in some cases, mine were even better. I made tables of contents for mine, and lots of pros didn’t bother. I revised my ebooks when I found mi … Read More [...]

]]> By: Steve http://zoewhitten.wordpress.com/2011/04/03/the-long-slow-goodbye/#comment-937 Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:44:18 +0000 http://zoewhitten.wordpress.com/?p=2278#comment-937 Do you feel better now? Sometimes a good rant will clear the pipes so to speak.

]]> By: Okay, I have to say this . . . « Zoe Winters, Paranormal Romance Author http://zoewhitten.wordpress.com/2011/04/03/the-long-slow-goodbye/#comment-936 Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:28:07 +0000 http://zoewhitten.wordpress.com/?p=2278#comment-936 [...] Okay, I have to say this . . . April 4, 2011 by zoewinters I wasn’t going to say anything. I was going to just let it blow on by, but there seem to be a LOT of people who think Zoe E. Whitten and I are the same person. One romance blogger/reader even commented to a writer friend of mine, confused over why Zoe E. Whitten was referring to her other persona in third person in this post she made. [...]

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