tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738347264016239879.post2318510221207110373..comments2023-09-18T04:18:15.914-05:00Comments on Mr. Micawber Enters The Internets: Oh, you published a book...micawber'shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16978812467040376059noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738347264016239879.post-76717532431063081932011-09-18T08:46:47.486-05:002011-09-18T08:46:47.486-05:00it's so hard. i face the same thing you do in ...it's so hard. i face the same thing you do in this regard, and i struggle, too. my standard answer is "we don't review self-published books." and that is true 99 percent of the time. ron charles (fiction critic for the washington post) put it well when he said he appreciates the curating that commercial publishers do for him. the number of self-pubbed books could, really, be infinite. it's not possible to sort through them all, or deal one on one with all of the authors. i always feel bad about it. but there's only so much we can do.lauriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18055442432266567561noreply@blogger.com