Monthly Archives: September 2013

...LUV ’em or hate ’em… they are as unavoidable as the cheeky speck of spinach sticking to yer teeth during yer important career interview… as in-yer-face as that other ‘cheeky’ business end of Miley Cyrus’ twerking… REVIEWS… whether yeez manufacture them through yer Aunties, Grannies and Uncles (perish the thought…would authors do that?) …or have unknown critique-o-philes praise, promote, and project or lambast, lampoon and lance yer masterpieces… REVIEWS are here to stay… as much part of yer literary rites of passage as sno-paque eliminator for yer typewriter or the delete button on yer laptop… I can still recall vividly the first negative review on my initial wee scribbled baby, THE VIOLIN MAN’S LEGACY… the lad gave me two stars out of five… instant dagger-through-the-heart sensation… then I checked his other reviews to find he’d only ever done one other… he’d given John Grisham only a lowly one star out of five… shheeessh, that felt better… it’s all got to be taken with a pinch of salt, Mabel… sure, they’re important for getting attention to yer stuff on Amazon Kindle and other splendid outlets… but remember, everybody who reads yer WURK isn’t necessarily gonna LUV it… I recall a good friend of mine, who likes a dram or six, talking about the merits of good whisky, uttering the immortal line.. ‘…it’s a very nice breakfast whisky…’ …perspective, y’see… I’m not about to encourage yeez to investigate the claims of my pal’s critique on his morning imbibement…  ‘…chacun a son gulp…’ …but let me not impede any inclination yeez may indulge to review my forthcoming crime thriller, SAVAGE PAYBACK… coming to a Kindle near you in the near future… I’m building a raft of good people who’ll review the WURK for me, so I can have a slew of early reviews on Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com (and maybe even on Goodreads) as I launch it… emb’dy who feels so inclined, please contact me on my email seumasgallacher@yahoo.com  TA! …yeez’ll see the cover reveal under my Blog Scratchers Corner below… see yeez later …

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…is it because I’m Scottish?… or am I SO dumb I always miss the point of stuff?…, now, in fairness, I’ve never ever claimed to be a descendent of Albie Einstein… and most days when real education was being thrown around in my school, I was out on field trips, counting fields… but I cannot for the life of me take in what I read today without expressing that ‘Wednesday, Thursday, Friday?’ mnemonic, WTF?... as anyone who reads this blog regularly will know, I’m frequently at odds with Master Zuckerberg‘s minions, and invariably end up in the old Facebook Slammer… comes now the risk of putting the Amazon Kindle noses out of joint… don’t mistake me, I’m not one readily to bite the hand that feeds… the Amazon Kindle phenomenon has been generous to me and my novels so far… BUT, BUT, BUT… here comes the new deal, the Kindle Matchbook Program … maybe I’m missing something in the small print, but I paraphrase in quote… ‘…lets yeez offer yer Kindle Book at a discount when they (customers) buy yer print book….’ …unquote… as if the quill-scraper society suffers not enough from whiners who won’t pay more than the price of a sausage roll for a year’s WURK in the form of yer masterpieces… they want to make it even cheaper!… flog yer wares at prices lower than a snake’s belly in a trench… what am I not understanding here, Mabel?… but there’s more nonsense involved than merely asking yeez to surrender yer royalty fortunes to the miser brigades… they expect the customer to buy a print copy AND then buy a Kindle copy… forgive my ingenuousness here, but I personally have NEVER bought TWO copies of the same book in my life… I don’t expect stampeding swarms of the reader universe out there to act any differently… yes, Matron, I am shouting again, I know, I know… yes, one syringe-load’ll be fine…  see yeez later…