Crap marketing techniques for writers, by writers

On Christmas Day, I jokingly asked for suggestions for the new kindle I got for Xmas via trusty old Twitter:

What with authors being a clever sort, all them words and everything I thought they'd just roll their eyes and think 'what a sarcastic cow'.

But no. Even though I'm new to Twitter I got got a wealth of suggestions even from those who don't follow me.

So I thought I'd try to drive the point home again:

But still the pleads for me to buy books came, with a joking 'Well since you ask!!??' One suggested a famous author followed by a pseudo-modest 'but you could always try mine too'.

Then I thought I'd try a little something else:

I drowned under Tweets from these.


Of course you have every right to say I asked for it - and of course I did - but I do despair of a writerly world where sarcasm and good old taking the piss aren't recognised by today's social commentators, albeit ones who make their views known via (from what I can make out) mild bodice rippers and unrecognised and unrequited literary crushes on James Bond.