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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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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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