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Pyrate Jenni ([info]pyratejenni) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,
@ 2010-03-03 13:32:00
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Entry tags:author entitlement, authors, writers are often pompous douches

Why fan -- er, pro authors can't have nice things.
Rob Thurman is an urban fantasy author who desperately wants to get the 6th book in her series on the NY Times bestseller list. According to a wee mousie, the way bestsellers are calculated is by applying a complex and seekrit algorithm to the first week's sales, from Tuesday (when new books, like albums and babies, "drop") to Saturday. So it's very important to rack up sales during that time period if you want to list.

Also according to the mousie, Thurman's been going nuts for the past month, posting in all caps, and topping things off with this post. Thurman berates a reader for buying the book on Monday because said reader is having surgery on Tuesday. The reader apologizes, Thurman says she'll need pictures of the surgery.

Thurman's specialness doesn't end there. Non-USA readers have to buy two copies of the book to get their reward (sneak peek at the 7th books), people who buy online are Ebil! and more CAPSlock.

Her tweets are also... yeah.

Hat tip to the mouse, for stealing borrowing chunks of her post.


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[info]scribacious
2010-03-03 07:57 pm UTC (link)
Ummmm........

Where's the wank? I must have missed something here.

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[info]lady_ganesh
2010-03-03 08:35 pm UTC (link)
It felt more like clairvoyant territory to me, but there is something unpleasant demanding fans buy two copies of your book to enter in a 'promotion' to see...a single chapter from the next book.

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[info]scribacious
2010-03-03 08:52 pm UTC (link)
I don't really see how that's unpleasant at all. Other than buying two copies (which one can then be given away to get other readers into her work), it's also required to buy the book within a time frame to get that chapter promo.

There's conditions for promos all the time. It doesn't appear unreasonable at all to me. All she does is appear stressed and trying to get her fans to understand the facts of her situation. Nothing overly rude at all.

If there was a sudden outrage about this, then heck yeah! But there's no wank to be seen.

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[info]sistercoyote
2010-03-04 06:19 pm UTC (link)
I think the thing that bothers me about this is that most of the authors I follow frequently "give away" chapters of their books.

And I happily pimp them out to people who I think might be interested.

So having to buy two copies to get a sneak preview is somewhat troublesome.

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[info]scribacious
2010-03-03 09:50 pm UTC (link)
I take back the "Nothing overly rude at all." I see the rudeness in her responses.

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[info]lady_ganesh
2010-03-03 09:52 pm UTC (link)
Especially to people who just bought the damn book. I understand wanting to get good sales, but not everyone is swimming in cash at the moment.

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[info]scribacious
2010-03-03 10:30 pm UTC (link)
I've been 'headdesk-ing' for not seeing that at first. Time to wake my brain up.

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[info]eleutheria
2010-03-03 11:16 pm UTC (link)
Or to the people who bought it online. Not everyone can leave their house to go to a bookstore-- or can afford to pay the full bookstore price.

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(no subject) - [info]beccastareyes, 2010-03-04 03:56 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]octopedingenue, 2010-03-07 07:29 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]beccastareyes, 2010-03-07 07:35 pm UTC

[info]amaresu
2010-03-04 08:30 pm UTC (link)
Or hell, the bookstore I bought from only had six copies. If I bought two copies that meant only 4 other people would be able to buy it. That's a bit mean to poor 5th person who now can't get a book.

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[info]cesare
2010-03-03 09:39 pm UTC (link)
The author wrote in a comment:
Sweetie, you totally didn't even read the post, did you? Or any of my posts or tweets. You can't buy until TUESDAY--tomorrow! Or it doesn't count on NYT or any of the other rankings that keep my publisher interested in keeping the series alive. And now you can't have a look at Cal 6 chapter one a year in advance.

Why. Why do I try? Head thunk on desk.

If you don't think that's wanky as all get out, fair enough, but it makes me cringe.

Or should I say... Sweetie, if you don't think that's wanky as all get out, you totally didn't even read the post, did you? Head thunk on desk.

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[info]scribacious
2010-03-03 09:43 pm UTC (link)
You're right. That really was rude.

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tetradecimal
2010-03-03 10:08 pm UTC (link)
If I ever become famous, I'll demand that all my readers buy two books as well -- one to read and one to rub against their moles and bury in their yard on the night of a full moon.

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[info]caffeine_fairy
2010-03-03 10:44 pm UTC (link)
But what if I don't have any moles?!?!?!

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[info]theelusiven
2010-03-03 11:18 pm UTC (link)
Rent one.

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[info]bobafeis
2010-03-03 11:31 pm UTC (link)
Maybe you'll find one while digging through your backyard?

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tetradecimal
2010-03-03 11:53 pm UTC (link)
You don't have any moles? You must have already bought my book.

It also cures Zombie, but not if you're a boss.

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[info]tehrin
2010-03-04 03:18 am UTC (link)
You better give me more than just a preview of your next book if I do that.

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[info]theelusiven
2010-03-03 11:17 pm UTC (link)
It may be, after the magnificence of the R. Malone wank, that standards are elevated.

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[info]lindentreeisle
2010-03-04 06:22 pm UTC (link)
True dat.

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[info]huehau
2010-03-05 04:24 am UTC (link)
Maybe there's something I'm not getting but aren't publishers more interested in overall sales?

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[info]sandglass
2010-03-04 12:32 am UTC (link)
Wank isn't all about stupid arguments! I, for one, find this wanky and delicious. Mm.

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[info]scribacious
2010-03-04 12:49 am UTC (link)
Yeah. I've already taken back my comment. A couple of other author responses to the lj post have blown this up into a bigger wanky picture.

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[info]sandglass
2010-03-04 12:51 am UTC (link)
Sorry! I fail at reading.

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[info]scribacious
2010-03-04 01:01 am UTC (link)
It's alright. I had failed at the reading the actual wank itself, earlier. Here's some pie.

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[info]out_bottle
2010-03-04 02:09 am UTC (link)
Yeah, that does make it wankier.

Maybe I'm assuming this is just an author stressing out, and her fans are used to it, idk.

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