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Vietnam American War veteran wrote an historical fiction naval novel about the Tonkin Gulf Incident called "TIN CAN" available at Amazon.com It's a nice cleanly written beauty. Then wrote a brilliant science fiction novel about a trillionaire psychopathic owner of Mars' entire planet in 2084 called "Brave New Mars" at Amazon. It's about Artificial Intelligence owning the population's daily ablutions. It's good dramatic poetic political reading.
Technical background, now retired in Key West. My websites are allenmeece.com and Kwesthouse.com
Ein sends your press release to a lot of sites they own which are just news release aggregators.
They sent mine to places where they were not findable on search engines! In other words, EIN sends releases to sites which throw them as a link, into dark closets, some not even searchable! You;ll NEVER get on the front pages of the EIN customer base.
I'd pay about $15 to do it again, not more. Their $500 basic package for five releases is an absolute absurdity.
Somerset Meece, author of BRAVE NEW Mars scifiction novel at allenmeece.com
BlueInk gave a positive and intelligent summary of my excellent scifi novel "BRAVE NEW MARS" available from amazon.com
The Kirkus reviewer was grouchy and hated everything about the book and they wouldn't give a refund or a re-review. That was a $500 rip off, the worst of my life. Do not use Kirkus.
BlueInk charges the same but does a REAL review, not some stinky thing from a disgruntled reviewer.
Tip for consumers:
This is a nicer company with better employers than Kirkus Reviews! Avoid Kirkus.
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BookLife also does paid reviews and I tried them out, hoping they had higher quality reviews than Kirkus, which I've also tried. They don't! They are a ripoff copy of the Kirkus scam model that charges $400 for a fake review where the reviewer is a casual laborerer getting paid for doing nothing but pretending to carefully read a novel. Hah! BookLife Prize Review only charges $150 for a just-as-bad-or-worse "review" where they say you might get a $5000 prize for buying into the scam.
I am regretting that I learned the hard way about PAID "book reviews." They are not real reviews by qualified book lovers. They're just ez money for doing nothing.
From now on, I will buy no reviews. I will only use volunteer reader reviews, free and more accurate. You should too.
My reviewed novel is "BRAVE NEW MARS" a wonderful scifiction novel about how life on new Mars has been bought out by a multi billionaire who effectively OWNS the government and its court system and is able to punish people who don't buy into the commercial economic system. There is one favorable review of the book I wasted four hundred dollars on at https://amazon.com/author/allenmeece
Tip for consumers:
Get free independent reviews instead of phoney paid reviews.
BookLife also does paid reviews and I tried them out, hoping they had high quality reviews. They don't! They are a ripoff copy of the Kirkus scam model.
$400 for a fake review where the reviewer is a flunk-out English major getting paid for doing nothing but pretending to carefully read a novel. Hah!
I am regretting that I learned the hard way about paid "book reviews." They are not real reviews by qualified book lovers. They're just ez money for doing nothing.
From now on, I will buy no reviews. I will only use volunteer reader reviews, free and more accurate. You should too.
My reviewed novel is "BRAVE NEW MARS" a wonderful scifiction novel about how life on new Mars has been bought out by a multi billionaire who effectively OWNS the government and its court system and is able to punish people who don't buy into the commercial economic system. https://amazon.com/author/allenmeece
Tip for consumers:
Paid book reviews without possible refund when they produce a krappy, incompetent review is a ripoff to be avoided. They are criminally insane products.
It's like buying a car that is delivered without wheels or an engine and you're supposed to accept it one hundred per cent as a proper business deal??? It is mere criminal commerce. AM
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They don't read the entire book when they review it. They left out the major event of my Viet Nam war novel called "TIN CAN," which happened to be a mutiny and they said it does not stand out from the crowd of Viet Nam narratives, if you can believe that! How many narratives contain a mutiny in the U.S. Navy where the crew takes a fully-armed destroyer away from the admirals and delivers it to the Red Chinese in exchange for diplomatic immunity? That's a little bit of a stand-out, I'm sure you would agree.
So I wrote a few ppl at Kirkus asking for a refund or better review and they stood by company policy: no refunds for any reason and NO re-reviews. They do not care how badly written their pre-paid reviews turn out, they do not care about satisfying the customer. I paid $500 for an expedited review and that's the biggest rip-off loss of my life. All I can do is write negative reviews back at them. Don't buy their sad product.
The FKAA extends quatity discounts to heavy water suckers, the commercial accounts. Check out their "consumption charge" online to see how a small user pays the base rate for their first 6, ooo gallons of water while the dam hotels in Key West which may have an 8-inch water main, can suck up almost HALF A MILLION GALLONS at that same "base rate!"
This monstrous discount represents water fees which are given to the big users and pair by the numerous residential customers. Call it a pro-business bias. It's undemocratic and oppressive.
Written by Allen Meece at amazon allen meece author page
Tip for consumers:
This water utility charges a flat rate user fee which hurts the small and conservationist users. If you get your usage way down, your cost per gallon gets higher.
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