Hi everyone! Today I've
got some important mostly review related notices for you. Firstly apologies for the sporadic posting. I have a whole load of reviews that need scheduling, but The non notices are that the start of the
week I was reacting to the flu jab, and the end of the week I had a
24 hour thing from a family member which my body of course took a few
days to get over, because it likes to take it's time with germs.Then on the 1 day I wasn't too peaky my laptop didn't like the internet, so at least I was able to write the post just not post it. That's my life!
Amazon
I
guess you may think I'm boycotting Amazon, but I'm not. I boycott
Nestle and Tesco – you don't want me to get on that soapbox, trust
me), but being a homebody and finding shopping difficult the internet
is wonderful, and Amazon spectularly so. Unless you are writing
reviews.
There
have been some changes to Amazon review policy. With limited time
each week I don't have the time to research the current change in
detail, so I looked at a few articles to understand the gist of it. I
was thoroughly confused because I'd managed to pick conflicting
opinions on what the changes to reviews mean, whether it affects book
reviewing or not. So for now, unless any of you can point me in the
right direction of what the new policy really means I am
no longer placing my reviews on Amazon.
I'm really sorry, but given that I have little energy and little
time, if my review is going to be removed from Amazon there is no
point in me putting it there. I know how important the reviews are
to authors, but I have to save my own energy as much as possible, and
it's easiest just for me not to put the review on Amazon..
Sainsbury's
Entertainment
Some of you may have noticed that several of my book reviews are
courtesy of Sainsbury's bookshop (so very awesome!). Unfortunately
Sainsbury's has decided to focus on it's shops offline (& grocery
shop online), so the book/music/movie/possibly 1 other product online
store which came under the umbrella of Sainsbury's Entertainment is
no more.
You can find the full details here, which includes what
happens if you already have a book/album/film with Sainsbury's. If
the deadlines haven't passed then for either the music and/or the
films you can get a refund, books won't be refunded but I think
there's something about transferring them to a Kobo account.
I'm
accepting my books are disappearing as I don't have the energy to
look into a Kobo account when all I use is a Kindle account for my
ebooks. I'll simply buy the books if I want to read them – all the
books were for review, so were technically free hence why I'm not
planning on spending energy sorting out Kobo.Yes even loading an app uses my energy, so I have to be selective about what I do.
My
social media accounts
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| Not that kind of tweeting... |
I've saved the good news until last! I hate to end on a negative note
in reviews and the same is true for blog posts. I'm playing around
with Hootsuite, which is why the latest posts have had 'new post
alert' preceeding the title on Twitter ad Facebook. Hootsuite
automatically puts links up for my posts which saves me heaps of time.
Unfortunately it means that my usual style of Tweet and FB update
style which tries to tag the author and publisher currently isn't
happening for the autoposting.
I'm thinking of a way to fix that,
which will involve drafting the Tweet/update prior to the review,
then adding the link on the review day. This may defeat the issue of
me using Hootsuite, but it may just work. Or I'll simply put 2
notices up, the generic Hootsuite notice as soon as the post goes
live (or within the 6 hours period I told Hootsuite to check for blog
updates) and the more specific Tweet/update when I've enough energy
to email the details to the publicist/author.
Please bear with me as
I figure this out in my usual slow fashion.
That's it for today's notices, I hope you are enjoying the week, having a more stable internet connection, and start the week with a
smile!
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| Seeing Sora from Aikatsu means I definitely will watch it today! |
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