Today, we looked at the literary shortcomings of authors who fake glowing reviews of their own books. Unlike those bland sockpuppeteers, our commenters praise themselves with style.
Lately, authors have been caught sockpuppeting, the cute term for the ugly practice of faking favorable reviews, on Amazon to inflate ratings of their own work. But these writers who fictionalize for a living aren't very good at making their phony reviewers seem real.
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