"OUT is a novel that is too controversial for the traditional publishing world."

It's not the first time I've seen this: a fan fiction author who's achieved BNF status and whose stories have become fairly popular and well known within the small pool of fandom (and even the Harry Potter fandom is a small pool relative to the world at large, sorry to say) thinks maybe all those thousands of hits and flattering reviews saying "You ( Read more... )

Well, obviously not all of them are this evil. But holy crap.

Yes, this is from Robert Fletcher, the same guy I have posted about previously, who runs a variety of vanity presses under the Strategic Publishing Group (and who has even harassed my tiny little blog, or his marksclients have ( Read more... )

( You know, there are some legendary tales of bad behavior on the part of certain science fiction and fantasy authors, but they trashed each others' books all the time and still went to cons together. )

( Apparently, YA authors think you should only write reviews that are made of Puppies and Snowflakes and Win! )

It's kind of funny that Strategic Publishing has to send people to defend them on my l'il LiveJournal with less than a hundred readers. I'm not likely to start a meme that takes off across the internet.

Cory Doctorow says all complex ecosystems have parasites. The growing ease of epublishing, combined with the ongoing difficulties of the ( Read more... )

A couple of weeks ago, I posted Beware of Vanity Press Scams, in which I singled out the Strategic Publishing Group, affiliated with the hydra-headed AEG Publishing Group.

I received this response from an anonymouse:

Your research.You're comments are way off base and at best, amateur. There are numerous authors published by Strategic that are ( Read more... )

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Subject: The Lord of the Rings
Tolkien's masterpiece turned out to be the most read work of literature in the 20th century in English. It's a unique accomplishment which really cannot be put into any category. That's what great literature is.

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Interesting post and discussion from author Lee Goldberg about self-published authors. In the comments is a lot of back and forth between Goldberg and Joe Konrath, a professional author who’s gone the self-published route ( Read more... )