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AHAHAHAHAHA Will Sh*tterly. He never changes. Just got his sorry self banned from Jim C. Hines' blog for trolling rape survivors in comments. Ain't he a gent? At this point I have to conclude that he does this for the clicks. Pardon me while I shower.

In other news, I am doing much better, as my snark may indicate. ;) Thanks, everyone. *hugs*

Anne Rice on Paula Deen:

I think she’s being lynched because America does this now to those who are politically incorrect.

*headdesk*

Only a writer of Anne Rice's caliber could manage to use "lynched" and "politically incorrect" in the same sentence. Attagirl.

Ex-SWFA President Russell Davis weighs in to the ongoing SWFA sexism firestorm set off by yet another chain-mail bikini cover on the SWFA Bulletin, and the insulting defense of the cover (and all twisted tropes dear to old white guys clinging to their privilege) authored by Messrs. Resnick and Malzberg.

In other words: How Every Discussion of ( Read more... )

Bestselling author caught posting positive reviews of his own work on Amazon

RJ Ellory is the world's best author. His books are the world's best books.- RJ Ellroy

Dayum, son. That's brilliant. I'm going to start leaving comments like this all over my stuff at AO3. HAH!

I'd like pro authors to shut up about fan fiction and mind their own damn business. Thank you, Diane Duane, for being the latest pro author to shower the great unwashed community of fanfic writers with your insufferable condescension. ( cut for ranting )

A good old-fashioned tale of Pro Author Behaving Badly: Paul Kramer, author of the now infamous Maggie Goes on a Diet (summary: 14-year-old overweight girl is bullied, loses weight, becomes popular athlete and fits in pretty pink dress) decides to dispute a negative online review:

To the bitch who wrote this review. It must be sad living with ( Read more... )

So apparently there's a new movie out, written by John Orloff and directed by Roland Emmerich, which recycles that old theory that the Earl of Oxford wrote Shakespeare's plays, only with incest and explosions. Holger Syme didn't like it. In fact, he ripped it a new one:

The problem with Anonymous isn’t primarily that it gets so many things wrong. ( Read more... )

Ahoy, 'tis a perfect storm of fail. These don't happen often, so I'm documenting this for posterity. It offers lessons in 1)how not to write fiction; 2)how not to respond to reviews of your fiction; and 3)how not to respond to an author losing her shit.

Summary of events:

1) Big Al's Books and Pals posts a review of a self-published novel called ( Read more... )

Well. It seems that WisCon's parent organization has uninvited Elizabeth Moon. Better late than not at all.