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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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napalmnacey
2010-03-06 03:39 am UTC (link)

I live in Australia. He was really surprised to hear my accent. Actually, it was really great to be Australian at a Xena Con. All the NZ actors were like, "DUDE! What are you doing HERE!?" (The con was in Pasadena). Danielle Cormack was so sweet to me, we were talking fast and thick like old friends (I was dressed up as an Amazon the day I saw her). All my US friends were like, "I have no idea what either of you said." Was pretty hilarious. :D

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	evilsqueakers 2010-03-09 04:44 am UTC (link)
	(Is not jealous you're in Australia, really. Really. Really, damn it.) I love that you got to have fun and interact, you know? I'm jealous, too. Because that's a time and place you can't recreate. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

napalmnacey
2010-03-09 07:40 am UTC (link)

It really isn't. Those cons were special, cause they had ALL the actors from the show, and entire families went to these cons. Hercules was also going on at that time (2000) so they had actors from that show on too (BRUCE CAMPBELL, YO). There were shippers from all over the map there.

Now they're pretty much subtext-only events. I heard of some straight girls who liked Xena going to a Lucy concert and getting stink-eyed and then questioned as to why they were there. On the whole subtext fans are lovely but there are always in a group of people, a couple of assholes that ruin it for everybody.

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