Paid Review?

[Happydog]

You've got to be kidding. I looked at the books they have "reviewed"
and have never heard of any of them.
Better still, just send your money to me and I'll make a web site and
say your book is great. Just kidding, of course. It would be the same
thing.
I have a book
http://smokeandmurders.com
and all my friends say it is great. I know they wouldn't tell me
anything not true. Yeah, right!
But buy the book and judge for yourself. :)

The crime where the book is taken from is at
http://allamosa.com

[Bruce Atchison - author]

Greetings;

I like that title, Smoke and Murders. As far as I'm aware, titles like that
grab the attention of the passing shopper because of the incongruity of the
words.

I read an article yesterday on a book publisher's website that said book
titles should be like newspaper headlines. What do you folks think? I like
good titles but it's sometimes too hard to sum up a book in a few words
while not giving everything away. It seems to me that the subtitle should
do the work of letting people know what the book is about.

Sincerely,

Bruce Atchison - author of Deliverance from Jericho (Six Years in a Blind
School) and When a Man Loves a Rabbit ((Learning and Living With Bunnies).

Blog: http://canadianauthors.ning.com/profile/batchison

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On Apr 29, 7:10 am, "Bruce Atchison - author" <batchi...@mcsnet.ca>
wrote:

> Greetings;
>
> I like that title, Smoke and Murders. As far as I'm aware, titles like
that
> grab the attention of the passing shopper because of the incongruity of t
he
> words.
>
> I read an article yesterday on a book publisher's website that said book
> titles should be like newspaper headlines.

I just posted some notes on an agent's talk at a conference. On
titles, he said that bookstores often shelve books by title, putting
books with flashier, eye-catching titles at eye level.

Sometimes a book is misfiled in the wrong genre if the title is
misleading, too.

DB