I didn’t know who Ellen Tanner Marsh (pictured) was before reading this story on Slate.com. Apparently, she is a “New York Times best selling author.” When she’s not writing romance novels, she writes effusive book-review blurbs in exchange for cash. If you have $399, Marsh will praise your self-published book. And if you don’t like the way she praised it, don’t fret. She’ll praise it in words of your choosing.
-Marcia
Comment by fox
January 26, 2007 @ 4:23 am
yeah, that sucks. but you’re a hater!
Comment by Ellen Tanner Marsh
June 7, 2007 @ 2:05 pm
Marcia, Marcia, Marcia! Surely you must know that only a FRACTION of said fee went to me and that said purple prose was not always of my own choosing? I plead guilty to soul-selling because sometimes a gal has to eat but certainly not to the notion that any crime was committed. (Though I confess the moniker “review” probably should have been replaced with the more truthful “marketing piece.”)
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