"What exactly is a Publicist and what do they do?"
These questions demonstrate lack of parallelism and were written by Lisa Orrell.
The shitty sentence structure shown above comes from her poorly written guest post on the Outskirts Press Blog. Outskirts is the often-inept self-publishing company that has misspelled its own name, posted inaccurate web links, named the wrong publisher of Roget's Thesaurus, called a preface a foreword, produced the world's worst press releases and committed dozens of other sins.
In an apparent "you-kiss-my-ass-and-I'll-kiss-your-ass" deal that has become common in publishing, Lisa has a YouTube video which hypes an overpriced and padded book published by Outskirts. The book's cover promises that it "Reveals Top-Secret 'How-to' Tips Guaranteed to Increase Sales."
- There are NO secrets and NO guarantees in the book.
- Lisa says it's a "great book that I highly recommend."
Lisa apparently wrote the horrid paragraph above. She may be a "Certified Success Coach" and "professional speaker," but she desperately needs someone to teach her to write proper English. When she gets paid to speak, I hope she speaks better than she writes.
You may be wrong about Lisa flunking fourth-grade English.
ReplyDeleteIn some cities, parallelism isn't taught until sixth grade.
If she has a diploma from anywhere, it should be revoked.
ReplyDeleteI hope her books are written better than the blog.