Not exact matches
and stop
being mad at the
author.
When I show them the math (short version: if I can find 200 hardworking saleable
authors a year I can make a living in one of the cheapest areas of the Phoenix valley) they choose not to believe, but
at least they go elsewhere, assuming I
'm mad as a hatter.
Yet, traditionally pubbed
authors seem to
be mad solely
at Amazon, rather than publishers.
The presenters
at Village Books
were illuminating and provided «lots of nuts and bolts» for the
authors, most of whom
were not quite ready for publication, said Hanson, adding, «They
were all writing like
mad when the presenters
were talking.
Because the
author's grammar
is why many of us naysayers bothered to comment to begin with, your claim that we
're all
mad at him ignores our actual complaints, which
are the faults in the writing.
Holy moly everyone
is getting so
mad at the
author but he
is simply pointing out the obvious.
Telling the traditional publishing the establishment the same home truths we
at Mad Genius Club have
been banging on about for years... Did you ever hear the like from Scott Turow (former president of the
Author's Guild) or John Scalzi (former president of SFWA), or Roxana Robinson (the current President of
Authors Guild)-- which I'll talk about later) Or Stephen Gould, the current SFWA president?
Granted, some of these
authors are now dead, but the ones who
are still alive and the estates of the others you would think would
be howling
mad that no one
is buying their books
at those prices.
I know better than to identify characters in a novel with their
author,
at least not if they
are more than half
mad.