There have been a few posts circulating recently about how authors who self promote are basically assholes, because self-promotion doesn’t work to sell your books.
Combine Writing, Marketing, And Real Life. Now, Mix
Some fella I don’t know sent out a group email the other day, complaining that writing and marketing combined with real life is just too much without the help of an automotive marketing agency, so he’s ‘deleting his book and shutting down social media and the blog’ until such time as he makes his millions to hire people to do it all for him.