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How to shoot yourself in the foot
Jan. 17th, 2009 11:32 amHow does a 'special snowflake' type author screw a lightbulb?
They hold it and wait for the world to revolve around them.
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Apparently there must be something in the stars, or the water--or something, don't ask me. There's a positive epidemic of people with handguns in their pockets, letting them go off and blasting themselves in the foot. There's the whole name-calling thing which I'm not going to drag over here, but now there's this--yet another author who thinks that by behaving like a complete idiot (and a dangerous idiot, threatening a life) over next to nothing at all--literally a throwaway line bymroctober as he considered collating a reprint anthology is somehow not going to damage his writing career.
I'm sure it's not necessary for me to say this, and the people who act in these extreme ways aren't going to take the slightest bit of notice of good advice, but the internet is a small place, particularly when it comes to genre fiction and threatening behaviour, bullying behaviour just isn't going to be tolerated here any more than it is in the wordplace. The specfic writers hang around together around the D&D board, the romance writers huddle under their bonnets, the m/m writers lurk around the lube dispenser etc etc. So when someone does something so appalling as this chap has done in a public forum, with editors and publishers looking on with their jaws on the desk--is he going to be surprised when he's blacklisted? (well, yes, he will be, because people like this never think that anything is their fault). Publishers don't want mud to be thrown at them, because it sticks and most bona fide publishers will have a "behaviour" clause in the contracts, demanding that the author does nothing to damage the reputation of the publishing house. It's all too easy to forget this, when there's a wankfest going on.
They hold it and wait for the world to revolve around them.
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mylodon)Apparently there must be something in the stars, or the water--or something, don't ask me. There's a positive epidemic of people with handguns in their pockets, letting them go off and blasting themselves in the foot. There's the whole name-calling thing which I'm not going to drag over here, but now there's this--yet another author who thinks that by behaving like a complete idiot (and a dangerous idiot, threatening a life) over next to nothing at all--literally a throwaway line by
mroctober as he considered collating a reprint anthology is somehow not going to damage his writing career.I'm sure it's not necessary for me to say this, and the people who act in these extreme ways aren't going to take the slightest bit of notice of good advice, but the internet is a small place, particularly when it comes to genre fiction and threatening behaviour, bullying behaviour just isn't going to be tolerated here any more than it is in the wordplace. The specfic writers hang around together around the D&D board, the romance writers huddle under their bonnets, the m/m writers lurk around the lube dispenser etc etc. So when someone does something so appalling as this chap has done in a public forum, with editors and publishers looking on with their jaws on the desk--is he going to be surprised when he's blacklisted? (well, yes, he will be, because people like this never think that anything is their fault). Publishers don't want mud to be thrown at them, because it sticks and most bona fide publishers will have a "behaviour" clause in the contracts, demanding that the author does nothing to damage the reputation of the publishing house. It's all too easy to forget this, when there's a wankfest going on.
