I Got Jumped on Amazon
You would think the book buying public were a civil bunch, who gently discuss their favourite books on an Amazon sci-fi forum. Well, there behind the open ended questions and the recommendations, lies a terrible beast, just itching to leap out at unsuspecting authors. It was one fateful Saturday afternoon, I was preparing to leave to go and meet my fiance. I had just twenty minutes before I had to leave, when browsing on my new book page Super Red , only released on Friday, that I spotted in the list of forum titles, 'I need a new sci-fi book, any recommendations please?' I clicked the link and a woman was asking for a romantic sci-fi adventure, possibly post apocalyptic. I thought to myself, that describes my book, so I replied with a short message including a link to my book and a synopsis. Oh dear. What a mistake that was. I immediately got attacked from three members of the forum accusing me of 'spamming' their forum. My mistakes were many fold. Firstly I had fail