When I’ve commented on bookish controversies on this blog before, it usually is in regards to “authors behaving badly” be they plagiarizing or trying to game the NY Times bestseller list. But this time I don’t think the author in question had any ill intent at all. I think that Read more…
I’ve published a longish gest blog over at Sara Hoyt’s page. It’s about the pathological targeting of young debut authors in the Twitterverse. Please go check it out. By now you probably all know the story of Amélie Wen Zhao and her book Blood Heir. She was a new rising Read more…
I’ve written before about the self-destructive urges writers get. Plagiarism needs to be near the top of the list. Penning sexist rants about your greatness to an agent is another. And, of course, there’s always the venerable Internet meltdown. Now we have another example of something authors really shouldn’t do Read more…
More NaMoWriMo excerpts: “He killed her here,” she whispered. “Who? What?” “She didn’t like what he was doing, this place, what lived here. She begged him to move, to take the family away from this place. They argued, yelled, screamed. The floor was just vinyl stick on tile, old and Read more…