There are nice guys in this crazy publishing world, and Jesse Kornbluth is one of them. Big time.
When he says he's gonna review a book, he reviews it, even if the stacks of other books crying out for his attention threaten to topple onto his smart, funny daughter who greets the UPS guy with a withering, "Another BOOK?!" And then they pack up the trunk of their car with sacks of last weeks' books for giveaway. So they can safely inhabit their house.
Here's the thing. Jesse steered me, sight unseen, to a great NYC publicity house who for modest fee found me an online interview, five guest blogs and forty bloggers to review GUEST HOUSE. That bought him a few months' time.
When I politely wrote to say I'd find SOME reviewer to blast GUEST HOUSE national, and if not he then someone else, he wrote halfway through it. Meanwhile, he'd been cranking out a book proposal of his own.
Yesterday when I checked my website stats, sure enough there were sixteen hits from HeadButler. Then twenty-four hits. And my Amazon sales ranking flew skyward. I wrote to thank him, and the man said:
You are SO kind
I have been SOOOO slow
I STILL o u
Can you believe this?! So being of unmitigated cheek, I said:
A bagel?! Or maybe a mention on Amazon?
And he went straight to Amazon to post his review.
You see, I found him through Amazon.com. He's a Top Fifty Reviewer. And my brief GUEST HOUSE pitch to him many months back has now resulted in a Kornbluth review on Amazon—more sales ranking skyrocket, more gratitude than will fit in a dinky little blog.
Please, please visit HeadButler.com, your Concierge for Good Taste in books, music and movies. He's an eternal optimist, a talented writer and a new friend. You get a concierge and I get to count my blessings. Jesse is one truly powerful human being.
Here's the thing. Jesse steered me, sight unseen, to a great NYC publicity house who for modest fee found me an online interview, five guest blogs and forty bloggers to review GUEST HOUSE. That bought him a few months' time.
When I politely wrote to say I'd find SOME reviewer to blast GUEST HOUSE national, and if not he then someone else, he wrote halfway through it. Meanwhile, he'd been cranking out a book proposal of his own.
Yesterday when I checked my website stats, sure enough there were sixteen hits from HeadButler. Then twenty-four hits. And my Amazon sales ranking flew skyward. I wrote to thank him, and the man said:
You are SO kind
I have been SOOOO slow
I STILL o u
Can you believe this?! So being of unmitigated cheek, I said:
A bagel?! Or maybe a mention on Amazon?
And he went straight to Amazon to post his review.
You see, I found him through Amazon.com. He's a Top Fifty Reviewer. And my brief GUEST HOUSE pitch to him many months back has now resulted in a Kornbluth review on Amazon—more sales ranking skyrocket, more gratitude than will fit in a dinky little blog.
Please, please visit HeadButler.com, your Concierge for Good Taste in books, music and movies. He's an eternal optimist, a talented writer and a new friend. You get a concierge and I get to count my blessings. Jesse is one truly powerful human being.
