The Power Behind A Decent Editor...
Or, you know, bothering to research some of the most basic concepts on which the show you're writing about is based. I generally suck at writing reviews and I'm not big on bagging someone out for the sake of bagging someone out, but dayam The Power Behind The Throne just scribbled all over my favourite drawing in crayon.
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LOL @ Jaffa "breeding pouch in his stomach". Junior gettin hard core where Teal'c digests food! Gives a whole new meaning to MPREG morning sickness. :-p
Ya know, if fanfic authors can find a beta-reader, why can't a media tie-in author find an editor? There are fans who'd do canon editing for FREE if he'd asked us. This is why I prefer Stargate fanfic ten times more than Stargate pro-fic. I own "Hydra" and "Roswell", but have yet to finish them because fanfic distracts me so much more.
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The breeding pouch, bleh! I just imagined Teal'c's pouch like the hot tub from Hathor, no... just, no!
The stuff I plucked out of that book any one of us could have done, and there's certainly more in there that I missed. Why on Earth wasn't this book fact checked properly? As if they didn't know how easily we'd find the bits and pieces that didn't fit in with our show. :P I usually get through the SG novels in a few days, but then again, I can't say I read *a lot* of fan fic, mostly what my flist posts and maybe Alpha Gate or somewhere if I feel like it.
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"The point of this publishing company was that it was started by fans, for fans and the books were originally written by SG fanfic authors. Sally Malcolm, owner and chief executive of Fandemonium explained in an interview that they have moved away from that model is because she believed there weren't publishing enough male authors. Because a majority of authors in SG fandom are women, they went searching elsewhere."
WTF? Does an author's name have to appear "male" in order for fans to buy the books? Or were they looking for equality in authorship demographics? Because if Fandemonium ever gets Kevin J. Anderson to write SG-1 books, I'm going to toss flaming bags of cat poop. He wrote some real turds for The X-Files media tie-ins.
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There are male fic writers who would be just as good writing the novels.
Who knows, maybe this backlash against their employing people without true passion or understanding of the show will make them rethink that decision.
Why do they need male writers though? The show didn't seem to have a problem with an all male writing ensemble. Do they think more boys would buy the novels if they were written by men?
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If they wanted to give male authors more representation in a female-dominated publishing house, they could at least have chosen SOMEONE WHO WATCHED THE SHOW.
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Oh, wait... Fandy wants Sam/Jack-slanted books, not Sam/Janet. Or Sam/Vala. Heh.
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Yay! I love it when fans win. ;-D (Especially femslash authors.)
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