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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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	Re: EDIT scribacious 2010-03-03 09:22 pm UTC (link)
	The only thing I was confused about was the link. What does Moire Rodgers have to do with Rob Thurman in your last point? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: EDIT white_serpent 2010-03-03 09:33 pm UTC (link)
	It was written in response to Rob Thurman's post and tweets, as was Stacia Kane's post. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: EDIT mpoetess 2010-03-03 09:33 pm UTC (link)
	Having followed it, Moira is kind of obliquely hinting about Rob's postings, which gets a little more obvious if you're nosy and follow her links to other writers blogging on the same topic. Especially Stacia Kane (With bonus M/M romance author flaming in the comments, whoo.) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: EDIT threegoldfish 2010-03-03 09:38 pm UTC (link)
	The surprise flaming was sort of hilarious. Oh Ann, stay classy. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: EDIT mpoetess 2010-03-03 09:43 pm UTC (link)
	This, yes. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: EDIT scribacious 2010-03-03 09:45 pm UTC (link)
	Yep. I can see it now. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: EDIT scribacious 2010-03-04 01:03 am UTC (link)
	And thank you, by the way. Damn my internet manners are delayed today. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: EDIT jupiterpluvius 2010-03-03 10:07 pm UTC (link)
	Hee! On the other hand, I saw that Erastes rant and my first thought was "She forgot to set her preferences, and now she's taking an autobot message as a personal affront!" Oh, Erastes. Oh, Ann Somerville. Oh, humanity. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: EDIT mpoetess 2010-03-03 10:10 pm UTC (link)
	OTOH if the reminder notices are an opt-out, which it sort of looks like they are from the comment on Erastes' post by the staffer, that is mildly irritating. Full disclaimer: I am too fucking lazy to go check the company and see if that's the case, laaaa. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: EDIT julian_black 2010-03-04 12:26 am UTC (link)
	With bonus M/M romance author flaming in the comments, whoo. My, my, my. Somebody's had herself a nice hot cup of Carnation Instant Bitch, hasn't she? I still don't know why Ann Somerville has such a raging hate-on for Erastes, but that doesn't diminish my amusement at it one iota. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: EDIT pyratejenni 2010-03-04 12:55 am UTC (link)
	Somebody's had herself a nice hot cup of Carnation Instant Bitch, hasn't she? I choked on my water. I am so stealing this now. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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