This is just one of those cheap, direction-less advice blogs that hopes to get a book deal. "My goals for the short term are to get back to doing productive freelancing work for good people while finishing up my first book."
I don't think that's fair to the author. It's an ad hominem that shouldn't have any place whatsoever on HN.
At least this guy is out there sticking out his neck and taking a chance. I might disagree with what he has to say (I usually do), but I have no right to judge him either way and I think that neither do you.
Every serious writer wants a book deal. If he makes a "direction-less advice blog" to do it and manages to write decent stuff once in a while then more power to him.
What I'm trying to say is that argue with him on the basis of content and where he's wrong instead of taking pot shots at him. It's healthier and a saner way, because both of you might just learn something out of this.
I may have been a little harsh, but I'm not sure how I could take anyone's advice seriously if I knew ultimately they just wanted me to pay attention long enough to sell me something.
If this guy helps people, then awesome. However, the practice of bookblogmarketing still sucks.
The process of giving away something of value completely for free, completely optional for you to read, in hopes of creating an audience for a book (which takes a lot of work to write, hopes to improve the world in some way, and is also completely optional for you to read) sucks? What do you say about things that actually suck?
