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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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	stella_polaris 2010-03-04 01:42 am UTC (link)
	I she any good? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

agilebrit
2010-03-04 03:59 am UTC (link)

If you like sarcasm so thick you could cut it with a knife, a protagonist who is half-monster and very very unhappy about it, an overprotective big brother, and an oversexed puck (think Captain Jack Harkness on steroids without the shrinkage that steroids cause), stirred into an urban fantasy stew, then this is for you. I love her books beyond all reason, but looking at page2 of the comments, it's very much YMMV.

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	angelan 2010-03-04 08:13 pm UTC (link)
	She's entertainingly trashalicious! I enjoy the books enough that I am slightly disappointed she's so, uhm, special in real life. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	amaresu 2010-03-04 08:39 pm UTC (link)
	She's enjoyable. She manages to have a new take on the urban fantasy genre and makes elves even more evil then Terry Pratchett did. She has fun characters. Do you like urban fantasy detective novels? Do you like overly co-dependent brothers fighting monsters? Do you enjoy new takes on old monsters? If so you might like her books. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	stella_polaris 2010-03-04 08:48 pm UTC (link)
	I don't, to be honest :D I mean, I'm more for modern prose than fantasy. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	amaresu 2010-03-04 08:50 pm UTC (link)
	Then you probably wouldn't like her books. XD (Reply to this)(Parent)

	celtic_mysts 2010-03-13 04:27 am UTC (link)
	So she writes Supernatural? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	becktionary 2010-03-13 04:29 am UTC (link)
	She started watching it after the first book's release, but she's a really big fan. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	amaresu 2010-03-13 04:53 am UTC (link)
	The timing is close enough for it to be a hive mind thing. There are a number of superficial similarities, but they really are superficial. The background and story is completely different. That being said though, if you like Supernatural you'd probably like the books. (Reply to this)(Parent)

becktionary
2010-03-05 05:46 am UTC (link)

The first few books are fine. If you have low tolerance for infodumping the Exact Same Way Every Single Time in big huge chunks, you may find yourself skimming the book and commenting to a friend, "Hey, did you know that Cal's mum was a bitch? And werewolves are like the Mafia? And Robin Goodfellow likes sex?"

I'm not buying any more of her books, frankly. The idea was strong, but she's clearly running out of ideas for this series--and as the second series she began last fall (she has a third coming out this summer) is, frankly, fucking terrible, I'm done.

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	becktionary 2010-03-05 05:47 am UTC (link)
	Could I use the word "frankly" a few more times? Frankly, frankly, frankly, frankly. DX (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	beejium 2010-03-05 07:05 am UTC (link)
	Do you need a becksaurus? No, wait that sounds like a dinosaur. Rawwwr. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	becktionary 2010-03-05 07:07 am UTC (link)
	Right now, I think a Becklossary could be nice, but I could go for a Becksaurus, too. I wonder what you feed them. (Reply to this)(Parent)

cinnamonical
2010-03-08 05:47 am UTC (link)

The idea was strong, but she's clearly running out of ideas for this series

IIRC, she seemed to have wrapped up the Auphe storyline by the fourth book, so I was surprised when I found out that there was another book after that coming out. o_O I'll still read it, though I'm not sure whether I'll buy it eventually.

she has a third coming out this summer

Whoah! I did not hear about this one. *goes to search it out*

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