How To Sell A Gazillion eBooks In No Time (Russell Blake)

How To Sell A Gazillion eBooks In No Time
Russell Blake
Manana Publishing
Fiction, Humor
** (Bad)

DESCRIPTION: Working hard, slaving away over a keyboard for years, revising and polishing until you finally produce a flawless diamond of a story, then watching that diamond shine and sparkle in the public limelight while fame and royalties rain down upon your head... every writer dreams of that moment. But, really, isn't it the journey itself that is the true reward?
Maybe, if you're a sap.
Come on - we all know that it's all about the cash. All those famous authors who wax poetic about the hardships of "the craft" are just trying to throw others off the scent. Follow their questionable advice, or read any of those other writing books on the market, and you're guaranteed to get lost in the swamps of mediocrity. And while you're flailing about being bitten to death by the malarial mosquitoes of failure, the Stephen Kings and Tom Clancys of the world are getting a big laugh over how they've duped you.
What's the real secret, then? Just write (or "borrow") a book, then sell a good gazillion copies. Yes, it's really that easy! It's not magic, and it's not a con, whatever you may think. It's all math, and math never lies. Following Russell Blake's trademarked plan, you, too, could be riding high off the hog - or the purebred Arabian, or the customized Porsche, or whatever's your fancy - in no time flat.
A Kindle-exclusive title.

REVIEW: A fun idea, parodying self-publishing get-rich-quick books, this book sinks under its own weight. Blake repeats himself, driving the same jokes home again and again until they lose whatever humor they originally held - then returning to repeat them a few chapters later in case the reader had forgotten. The whole thing feels ponderously overwritten. I found myself skimming before the halfway point just to keep turning pages. This might've worked better as a shorter book... much shorter. As it was, it was just too heavy-handed to tickle my funny bone.

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