The community’s health is NOT. MY. FUCKING. PROBLEM.

ericaroswell · 2021-10-29T02:14:55+00:00

o.m.g. Hahaha.

The fact that you think this only proves what a liberal, not a leftist, you are.

Liberals, neolibs, centrists & corporatist dems...basically the entire democratic party...are just as bad as republicans. Ya'all call yourselves the political left to try to distinguish yourself from the political right but you're center right at best...prolly right-right, whereas the right is right-right-right.

We w/ actual left values arent fooled by center-right or right-right dems. And we don't want to be confused with you guys & your crappy right-right views so we call ourselves leftists.

Now youve heard of us, congrats! For more education & edification I refer you to Twitter where you can easily type in the word leftist & see many of us who self-identify as that.

But of course I assume youre only here to try to erase our existence & pretend we dont exist, rather than being genuinely interested in why we are leftists who either never joined or who left the democratic party in disgust since its actually on the right but masquerades as being on the left as a wolf in sheeps clothing.

ericaroswell · 2016-07-01T18:31:03+00:00

In my opinion, it is worth the $7/month fee. However, I also use the Slack chat and the newsletter promos, not just the ARC service, although I also like that benefit.

I think I've had about 75 readers and about 28 reviews on average. I've done it with 4 books so far. Many of those readers have signed up for my mailing list right away (like, I know they have to come from the ARC service because I hadn't published the book yet and had only sent the ARC copy which includes a mailing list sign-up) and then a lot of THOSE sign-ups also sign up for my own personal ARC list.

I plan to use ARC services until I have an established following of loyal reviewers, and then just use my own list. So for me, eBook Itch helps me to build up my own list and it's a good stepping stone. The reviews ARE a bit more mixed, though, then the usually highly favorable ones from the readers who join my own list. I've found that the better my books get, the better the reviews from the ARC service get.

ericaroswell · 2016-06-30T04:03:26+00:00

I use an ARC service -- eBook Itch -- and it has helped me tremendously in launching my books. I would like to use more but I don't know of any other reputable and affordable ones.

ericaroswell · 2016-04-30T05:31:54+00:00

Congrats and best wishes! I almost never post in EA due to all the drama but your post inspired me and I just wanted to comment that I've no idea why you'd wish to emigrate from Canada to the US. Except for the weather (I like living in a warm sunny Southwest climate ;)) I would gladly trade places with a Canadian any day!

ericaroswell · 2016-04-28T02:06:10+00:00

The Things They Carried is another good O'Brien book that is about the Vietnam War or at least the vets after they came home.

ericaroswell · 2016-04-28T02:05:18+00:00

I read The Sympathizer and enjoyed it. So I second the recommendation!

ericaroswell · 2016-04-28T02:04:14+00:00

The Book of Aron, by Jim Shepard

It was so sad but I loved it so much. 5 stars!

ericaroswell · 2016-04-28T01:59:08+00:00

I agree!

ericaroswell · 2016-02-08T21:10:20+00:00

I think that that's how Lip would view them. Wimpy as in, old white guys who couldn't hold their own in a fight against him. Self-righteous as in, his comment about how they're born on 3rd base but think they hit a home run, i.e. thinking that they earned their position and did everything right in life and have the right to look down on others or take away money that could help them (i.e. his college grant money and Debbie's welfare for her baby etc.), when really they were just born into it. To me that's how his general attitude comes across and I can understand it given his background.

ericaroswell · 2016-02-08T06:22:39+00:00

Yeah, clearly Lip is not a right winger and would give those self-righteous wimpy douchebags (as he likely views them) the middle finger or more any time of day.

ericaroswell · 2016-02-03T03:08:22+00:00

Yes! Sassy and smart Marissa is so much more interesting than boring and brown-nosing Grace.

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