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Entry tags:	authors, fandom: doctor who, reviews, writers are often pompous douches

Does everyone know what time it is?
IT'S WHO TIME!!! This report was shamelessly snagged from wank_report. *throws cheese to mousie* I thought it was time for some more author rage. Enjoy!

FYI: I have screencaps of most of this so let me know if anything goes 'missing'.

Author Paul Magrs (as in published, hired-for-money author of real books, thank you) gets the cruelest most entitled review ever written in the history of all humanity. http://unreality-sf.net/reviews/doctorwho/2/findreplace.html

Naturally, Magrs expresses outrage on Twitter. As published authors should always do. http://twitter.com/paulmagrs/status/26729418277 After all, how many books has that guy written? http://twitter.com/paulmagrs/status/26730575254 How many have YOU?

The author of review apologizes. http://brendan-moody.livejournal.com/317662.html

Too late, buddy. Magrs still has chafed butt. http://twitter.com/paulmagrs/status/27030688395 You see, Magrs loves fan dialogues with real fans, but not mean ones. Why can't you be civil like him. http://twitter.com/paulmagrs

Others weigh in.
http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/1550164.html
http://community.livejournal.com/who_anon/10535.html?thread=49908775#t49908775

This report is brought to you by Doctor Who fandom: wanking since 1963.

EDIT: Comments of interest-
http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/1550164.html?thread=6531924#t6531924
Magrs continues to miss the point of reviewers

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beejium
2010-10-13 02:20 am UTC (link)

My theory is that the authors for DW books aren't always the... greatest authors in the world.* Nor, obviously, the most prolific. So, when they suddenly publish a book that sells more than three copies and has the name of a super popular show plastered all over it, sometime their heads tend to swell just a tad.

*Massive generalization on my part. I actually adored some of the DW books, and still maintain that The Nemonite Invasion is far superior to some actual episodes.

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	cmdr_zoom 2010-10-14 04:51 pm UTC (link)
	You do realize that, much like the equivalent and similarly long-running franchise on this side of the pond (Trek), that's some awfully faint praise? (Writing something better than "Spock's Brain" or "Threshold" - not terribly difficult.) (Reply to this)(Parent)

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