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SwankiVY critiques the promotional tactics of Gloria Tesch's Maradonia-Saga

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Uploaded by on Mar 12, 2011

This is a revised version of a previous video about Gloria Tesch and her misleading, abusive, and absurd promotional tactics. The video I had up before contained some video clips and photographs belonging to the Tesch crew, and though I used them for commentary and criticism as allowed under the Fair Use clause, Tesch and co. hit it with a copyright infringement claim. This new video is both a response to that and an attempt to forward my original message without using their material to do it.

Gloria Tesch has employed abusive, misleading, and hilarious tactics to promote her self-published novels, up to and including a claim that she is the World's Youngest Novelist. Now her wild claims include movie producing credits and "celebrity" status outlined in a book trailer she posted online.

I left a YouTube comment on her video and she censored it because I pointed out her lies. So I made this video because I just felt like having my say and--dare I say it?--giving her some advice about how she should be handling her promotional ventures if she doesn't want to embarrass herself.

The links you may want:

Gloria Tesch's Maradonia-Saga "Book Trailer": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6oa9ifwLmU

Gloria Tesch's TV Show Intro (with some stolen images and music by 3 Doors Down):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6zjRPIr0CY

Gloria Tesch's website:
http://www.maradonia.com

Gloria Tesch's movie website:
http://www.maradonia-themovie.com

Gloria Tesch's promotional author Facebook account
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Worlds-Youngest-Novelist-Gloria-Tesch-Author-of...

Gloria Tesch's Twitter (where she once infamously announced that she can't hear anyone over the sound of how awesome she is):
http://twitter.com/maradoniasaga

TV Tropes entry for Maradonia Saga:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MaradoniaSaga

Amazon.com reviews of her first book:
http://www.amazon.com/Maradonia-Seven-Bridges-Gloria-Tesch/product-reviews/06...

Amazon.com reviews of her second book:
http://www.amazon.com/Maradonia-Gold-Ophir-Gloria-Tesch/product-reviews/06920...

Yahoo! Answers link where she shamelessly answered her own question to promote herself and claim to be the youngest novelist:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090219200656AApjd4a

WikiAnswers link where the admins had to close the thread for abuse because she kept changing the answer for "Who is the world's youngest novelist?"
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_is_the_world%27s_youngest_novelist
And the history where you can see how many times she changed it (and what they had to do to stop her and what they had to say about it):
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Special:Changes&cv=question:Who_is_the_world%27...

An interesting YouTube video about Fair Use, for the record:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJn_jC4FNDo

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  • Oh my god I love your voice!

  • @ilaniamge I'm still surprised every time someone says that on one of my talking videos. Thanks. . . .

  • @swankivy Sorry, it just sounds like mine ;)

    Also, I sent a message

  • @ilaniamge Well hopefully it will still be awesome when you are in your mid thirties like me.  Haha.

  • Enjoyed the review :) Gloria Tesch fascinates me. Sometimes I can barely imagine that this is all real, and then I realize that you can't script shit this crazy. She might be a psychotic egomaniac, but she's not boring :)

  • @x3LittleRedWriterx3 Thanks--yeah, it really is quite a bit more nutty than I'd think one could make up. But since all my references check out, you can reassure yourself that it's 100% real. :o

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  • okay a adore youuuu....i HATE ERAGON too!! i'm so relieved....subscribe

  • @Requiemxtoxinnocence Could very well be, but any dolt should know that if you're too poor to PRODUCE THE PRODUCT YOU'RE PROMOTING, you shouldn't be spending money/time on advertising it or, for crap's sake, trying to get attention for it by making a MOVIE. Even tiny indie flicks need a budget. I should know; I was in one. The director had to do a Kickstarter campaign to raise $10,000 just to get an editor AFTER principal filming. (It was worth it, though!)

  • @swankivy Money problems perhaps? Who knows.

  • @Requiemxtoxinnocence When you're self-published, you can name the company anything you want and of course you "own the company" when you do that, but self-publishing is basically hiring a printer to make copies that you then have to sell. It has no standards and no editing and no included advertisement. The question is why they don't make available more copies of books 1 and 2 since any new readers their hijinks actually attract would want to start at the beginning.

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