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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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the_labrat_army
2010-03-03 11:50 pm UTC (link)

She'd better hope that reading comprehension is extinct, because I'd imagine a large number of people reading those posts of hers are quickly being turned off by the idea of buying any of her books.

I've never read Rob Thurman, so I don't know if her books are any good or not. So nothing against them. But I can't imagine buying any of them after seeing this. It's not even like her book is getting horribly criticized; readers are posting telling her that they bought and loved it, and she's snapping back that not only their praise, but their cash means nothing to her if she didn't get it on Tuesday. I'm with the angry bloggers, that's just shoddy behaviour.

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	zumie_ashlen 2010-03-04 04:01 am UTC (link)
	I bought the first one forever ago and never really started reading it, and now I've pretty much decided to donate it, since I doubt I'll be able to enjoy it knowing what a douche the author is. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	comixology 2010-03-04 04:27 am UTC (link)
	I really enjoy two of the three main characters in this series, myself, but after about book 2 I realized it was better to just run away with my favorites and play around with them on my own. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	researchgrrrl 2010-03-08 06:11 am UTC (link)
	This. Exactly this. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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