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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: Thoughts on Yaoi, Cool Story Bro, Tell us what you REALLY think, etc.

ruffwriter
2010-03-04 09:32 pm UTC (link)

Please buy, do not borrow. I make less money than the drive thru person at McDonald's. Hell, I'd marry the drive thru person for their health insurance.

... I take it her only income is her books, then? Admittedly I don't know much about it, but I thought that unless you're super-successful, supporting yourself with writing alone is a bad call. (But I could be wrong.)

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	Re: Thoughts on Yaoi, Cool Story Bro, Tell us what you REALLY think, etc. syncopation 2010-03-04 11:22 pm UTC (link)
	Dunno either. But she says in her profile that "Despite the ten books in all that will eventually make their way to the shelves, I'm still starving. Please buy, do not borrow." I take note of the exaggerated tone here, but since she says it like that, then it's possible. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Thoughts on Yaoi, Cool Story Bro, Tell us what you REALLY think, etc. nightwalker 2010-03-06 10:25 am UTC (link)
	If I recall correctly, she was able to quit her day job and write full time when she sold the first Trickster book. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Thoughts on Yaoi, Cool Story Bro, Tell us what you REALLY think, etc. kyuuketsukirui 2010-03-08 01:34 am UTC (link)
	If she quit her job to write and it "still starving", it's no one's fault but her own. :p (Reply to this)(Parent)

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