thoughts and opinions by author s. andrew swann
S Andrew Swann | March 31, 2011
A year ago I blogged about Mr. Patrick Roscoe an asshat of epic proportions whose claim to fame is sending the following to a literary agent: Colleen Lindsay: Thank you for making it clear, through your response to my query, that you are unquipped (sic) to represent fiction writers who are working at the very [...]
S Andrew Swann | January 20, 2011
I had really nice comment today on my latest blog post: “With your ability, certainly you have learned praises before but I just want to involve to the many who have thanked you for what you’ve attained. Your work are one of a kind and show great insight. Thanks for your contributions!” I almost approved [...]
S Andrew Swann | December 31, 2010
This video of Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein has been making the rounds. Apparently, the Constitution is a little too hard for him to understand because it’s so (gasp) old. Ok, I know that’s not exactly what he was trying to say. Mr. Wonk here was just arguing that the founding document of this country [...]
S Andrew Swann | November 5, 2010
There is not much more I can say about the Cook’s Source Magazine scandal that hasn’t been already said. If you don’t know what I’m talking about (and if so, what Internet have you been surfing?) we have the author of an article about medieval tarts (SCAdians take note) who had her article lifted wholesale [...]
S Andrew Swann | October 11, 2010
In the annals of book promotion, this has got to be up there with the all time bad ideas. A paperback book was hurled towards President Obama seconds after he completed a Democratic rally in Philadelphia on Sunday, but aides say the incident in no way affected the event. [...] The US Secret Service found [...]
S Andrew Swann | September 21, 2010
So rarely does the universe provide such an enlightening conflation of shallow facile consensus political wisdom, along with elitist literary snobbery as we have in this column by Maureen Dowd. Dowd has gotten the memo, that Christine O’Donnell is the designated political chew toy for this political cycle. O’Donnell is the acceptable target. After all, [...]
S Andrew Swann | September 13, 2010
(NOTE: I’m going to start posting (some) political stuff on my blog again, the experiment with two blogs didn’t really work, and no one needs another political blog anyway.) Again with the asshats I say. And we have some wonderful hats of assness this time in the person(s) of a company known as Righthaven. What [...]
S Andrew Swann | April 19, 2010
UPDATE: (3/31/2011) Fixed a typo someone pointed out on Reddit. I’ve written enough about authors that have shown very public displays of ill judgment that it seemed to be almost mandatory that I talk about Mr. Patrick Roscoe (his name is not a link because you absolutely must hear the story before landing on his [...]
S Andrew Swann | January 22, 2010
There is a certain class of people who combine stupidity, deep-seated insecurity with a pathological need to control. The worst place to put these people is in a position where they are charged with keeping people safe. Case in point: We have a report (found here) of an unnamed vice principal at Millennial Tech Magnet [...]
S Andrew Swann | December 21, 2009
More inappropriate author behavior from Candice Sams from the ever-growing comment thread on Amazon. Here an enterprising commenter found an interesting plea on her Facebook page. (And here’s an LJ post with the full text in case Amazon deep-sixes the original comment.) So here we have someone pulling a reverse Deborah MacGillivray, piling on a [...]
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