Self-Pub Author Angry His Spam Is Flagged As Spam In Forum
Tuesday, May 29 By
Andrew Shaffer Self-published author M.R. Mathias started a thread to advertise his own novels at www.fantasy-fiction.com, and administrators moved his discussion thread to the "Self-Published/Small Press" forum on the site. This ticked off Mr. Mathias, who responded to administrators:
I am not a small press. I am an author with 18 titles for sale. That is more titles that some big publishing houses. I have advertising currently running in Locus, Publishers Weekly, Fantasy and Sci Fi, and Revolver magazines. I have blog advertising across the entire blog-o-sphere. I am not a small press or even self published. M. R. Mathias’ books are PUBLISHED by Michael Robb Mathias Jr. and should be treated no differently that any big named publishers title. WHY? Because I do my job as a publisher too. Please quit sending my posts into the self published/small press thread. My titles are neither. I have 92k twitter followers @DahgMahn and 10 titles in their genre bestselling list. There is nothing self pubbed, or small, about books written by M. R. Mathias.
Thank you,
M.R.Mathias’ publisher, Michael Robb Mathias Jr.
On Twitter, he added the following addendum, targeted towards fantasy-fiction.com's Twitter account: "I broke NO rules! #NAZI #Censorship #InEffect"
I checked out Mr. Mathias' Twitter feed. While he does have 92k followers, he also follows 40k people back. Make of that what you will. Additionally, the only things he tweets are links to his own books -- every day, all day long. His Twitter feed is simply one long stream of spam. Also spam? Visiting readers' forums and starting "discussions" about your own books.
There are other ways to promote your books (which Mr. Mathias seems to do as well, to his credit). Spamming forums and calling administrators "Nazis" is not the route to go.
(via fantasy-fiction.com)


















