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seanan_mcguire

Adventures in Self-Promotion.

Aug 06, 2012 08:23

This morning, I politely removed myself from six new groups that had been created on Facebook while I was sleeping. All six of them were "buy my book" groups, created by people I don't know personally, telling me about the exciting opportunity I have to purchase their brand new book. Four of them were for ebook-only editions (which is relevant ( Read more... )

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lots42 August 6 2012, 16:25:26 UTC

Wait. What?

I know there are books where a good guy tries to -stop- a rapist...

seanan_mcguire August 6 2012, 16:29:27 UTC

Yes, and then there are books where the "good guy" is one.

lots42 August 6 2012, 19:00:16 UTC

So is this 'self publishing has a dark side'?

elialshadowpine August 7 2012, 06:45:02 UTC

Who the hell is talking self-publishing? Stephen Donaldson, I am looking at you.

dragoness_e August 8 2012, 03:33:38 UTC

I would argue that Whiny McWhinyson--er, Thomas Covenant the Rapist is the anti-hero protagonist of his story, not a "good guy". He's one of the classic examples of an anti-hero. Donaldson so annoyed me with his the viewpoint protagonist that I never finished the first series, let alone looked at any of the others. I am not interested in a whiny, self-centered, self-pitying protagonist with the backbone and morals of a dead fish. Some types of amoral anti-heroes I can enjoy reading about (e.g. tricksters, villain protagonist), but not whiny, self-centered anti-heroes.

elialshadowpine August 8 2012, 03:48:42 UTC

I could be mistaken but I'm pretty sure I read from quotes from Donaldson that he intended the character to be sympathetic and for the READER to consider him a good guy even if he was an anti-hero so... :-\

(My point anyway being that this isn't a new thing with self-publishing; it's been going on for years. -_-)

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