The Adult Male Virgin Handbook, my 13th book, just released!

[Frank Kermit]

Hi Everyone,

I just released my 13th book.

The Adult Male Virgin Handbook.

I held my first AMV seminar almost 4 years ago, and I finally published the book today!

Here is the link:

http://www.lulu.com/content/7852137

Being an adult aged male virgin HURTS. The older you get without having had sex, the more it HURTS, and the more difficult experiencing intimacy becomes. Although sex is not the most important thing in a man's life, when sex (or lack thereof) is the problem, it is the source of almost all his problems in life. In this book, find out exactly WHY does it hurt so much, and how to discover that it is OK to need sex. Find out why Adult Male Virgins (AMVs) are often mistaken for closet homosexuals and abuse victims. It is time to commit yourself to finally losing your virginity. Find out how to handle the topic of sex when it comes up. We also will take a step-by-step journey through your first time including your first moves, first kiss, how to make sure that both you and her are comfortable, extensive analysis of foreplay, and how to spot and get rid of those things that keep you a virgin. This book has all those answers and more.

[Frances Pawley]

I went on to your site to read the Preview but sadly there is only one page showing of Chapter 1 and that begins on page 20. That contains a strip of writing just 4.5 inches wide centering the page, so there wasn't much to read. Maybe if you set the Preview so that we could read the first 10 pages, it might be easier to obtain a Review for your work.

[Ron Miller]

There are just too many amateurish things about the book. A sure-fire indicator of the self-published is the use of caps instead of italics, or the use of underlines anywhere for any reason. The text absolutely needs the hand of an objective editor (as I suspected it would from reading the ungrammatical blurb on the storefront). Page numbers should be removed from every page but the main text. And there is absolutely no need to run the copyright information on every page of the book---another feature that makes the book look amateurish.

R

[Frank Kermit]

Dear Mr. Miller,

I am curious as to what makes you an expert of original published material when so many things in your lulu store seems to be works written by others, and drawn from the public domain.

The gift of self publishing is the freedom to use whatever style the author sees fit, without consideration to arbitrary rules of style from critics like yourself. However, being only a lulu power poster, perhaps you fail to appreciate that. If you were to put the amount of time it has taken you to become a power poster on the lulu forums, and directed towards more of your own projects and not lifted works of others, perhaps you would not be so out of touch.

As for the copyright notice on each page, an unfortunate side effect of the popularity of my books on taboo subjects also makes them targets for people to turn into illegal e-books on torrent sites. (which is why I mainly publish paperbacks). Copyright notices on each page is the best promotion to bring people to my site, even if they have illegally downloaded only a portion of the book. However, since you are not an original author of many of the works you sell, and you have borrowed many of them from the public domain, then again perhaps, you are unable to truly appreciate the current copyright challenges of original authors who self publish. Again, are you just out of touch?

Lastly, you have taken quite a bit of an interest in a book about how an adult male virgin can finally lose his virginity...have a struck a sore spot with you perhaps? There is no reason to take my work personally if you have not been able to handle this part of your life on your own. Maybe you should buy a copy of the book so that you can fix this part of your life, and you would not have time to earn the mantra of Lulu Power Poster, because you could be spending that time with a girlfriend instead of a computer. Don't take your loneliness out on my work. As an expert in science fiction, you likely hang out with many of the type of men that I have helped lose their virginity. Let them know there is help out there for them, so they do not end up like you.

-Frank

[Silvano Velez]

Frank:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Miller_%28artist_and_author%29

And you seem to be on the good side of things with your site and blog and whatever else is out there. But if someone is giving you feedback on your stuff, even if it is not what you want to hear, you should at least consider it before moving on to the personal attacks.

Your presentation, profile pic and language make it very hard to take your products seriously.

[Belinda D'Alessandro]

[Frank Kermit]

I do NOT care about Ron's "credentials" when his attitude is insulting. There is a difference between constructive criticism and being a jerk. A professional can illustrate the difference.

I have counseled many men and women who were abuse victims, and a sure sign is that they always placate when being treated poorly by a bully because of some "righteous" reason. It is nothing more than a repeating behavior pattern. I will not allow my clients and students to be abused, and I will not tolerate that kind of low class behavior for myself.

His attitude is that of a bully, and I have zero patience. His rules of presentation are arbitrary, and HE is the one that attacked personally.

He wanted to make this public, so now it is public.

Like I said. For all his credentials, he is out of touch with the way things are.

If he was truly as "gifted" a writer as he claims...he would have presented himself better to begin with.

Being accomplished in any field is not a license to act like a P***k.

-Frank

[Silvano Velez]

Are you a doctor, Mr. Kermit?

[Kenneth Campbell]

Troll alert. This thread probably should just quietly go away.