Can We Be More Pretentious?

Can We Be More Pretentious?

By having photo after photo of oneself in various serious poses of sitting in coffee café with a copy of our book or entering a library.

Can We Be More Pretentious?

By stressing how busy we are yet we still have an output of 2,400 pages.

Can We Be More Pretentious?

On our Amazon Author page with fake reviews including one that says that our latest work is better than Shakespeare.

Can We Be More Pretentious?

In having a friend of one's parents write a puff piece in the paper to help move units.

I have nothing against self-publishing, not at all, but let's not make ourselves out to be the greatest thing since a bread slicer until we actually have someone other than ourselves and a credit card determine the viability of our work.

All writers are narcissists. Most of us are media whores, myself included. But let us not proclaim we are greater than the bard when our work isn't truly judged by a third party.

I read a puff piece on a local author that made me ill. It was insulting to all writers, especially those who choose to self-publish. I think the scribe who wrote the article as well as the scribe who bathed himself in his own glory, fail to understand that ego is the cruelest critic while real readership is the fairest.