Comments on: A Hierarchy of Authors, Part Three http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2006/12/11/a-hierarchy-of-authors-part-three/ The Fundamentals of Our Publishing are Wrong Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:37:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Lee Battersby http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2006/12/11/a-hierarchy-of-authors-part-three/comment-page-1/#comment-981 Lee Battersby Wed, 13 Dec 2006 01:47:00 +0000 http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2006/12/11/a-hierarchy-of-authors-part-three/#comment-981 <i>Do you mean this essay?</i><br /><br />That'd be the one :)<br /><br />Paul, of course Gardner is a needy type who craves constant adoration and spotlighting otherwise he thinks he's missing out and nobody loves him anymore.... he works in SF :) Do you mean this essay?

That’d be the one :)

Paul, of course Gardner is a needy type who craves constant adoration and spotlighting otherwise he thinks he’s missing out and nobody loves him anymore…. he works in SF :)

]]> By: Paul Riddell http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2006/12/11/a-hierarchy-of-authors-part-three/comment-page-1/#comment-980 Paul Riddell Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:48:00 +0000 http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2006/12/11/a-hierarchy-of-authors-part-three/#comment-980 Lee, I <i>could</i> be an utter bastard and say her name three times, but we'd get about the same effect of irritating irrelevance by saying Gardner Dozois's name three times as well. In Gardner's case, though, when he gets ignored, he just screams about nobody respects his authoritah and says "I <i>said</i>, 'Screw you guys, I'm goin' home.' Guys...<i>home</i>." Lee, I could be an utter bastard and say her name three times, but we’d get about the same effect of irritating irrelevance by saying Gardner Dozois’s name three times as well. In Gardner’s case, though, when he gets ignored, he just screams about nobody respects his authoritah and says “I said, ‘Screw you guys, I’m goin’ home.’ Guys…home.”

]]> By: Sean Lindsay http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2006/12/11/a-hierarchy-of-authors-part-three/comment-page-1/#comment-979 Sean Lindsay Tue, 12 Dec 2006 10:54:00 +0000 http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2006/12/11/a-hierarchy-of-authors-part-three/#comment-979 Do you mean <a href='http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0612/thoughtexperiments.shtml'>this essay?</a><br /><br /><i>Muahahahahaha!</i> Do you mean this essay?

Muahahahahaha!

]]> By: Lee Battersby http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2006/12/11/a-hierarchy-of-authors-part-three/comment-page-1/#comment-978 Lee Battersby Tue, 12 Dec 2006 00:51:00 +0000 http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2006/12/11/a-hierarchy-of-authors-part-three/#comment-978 Oh God, don't say Kristine Kathryn Rusch. If you say it three times she'll appear behind you and beat you to death with her stupid fucking essay on why we should all be writing Star Wars tie-ins, and then you'll go to writer hell where you'll not only have to sit between Jerry Pournelle and Orson Scott Card you'll have to explain how you were bitch-slapped to death by an irrelevant middle aged woman with a stupid essay.<br /><br />Just don't, okay? Oh God, don’t say Kristine Kathryn Rusch. If you say it three times she’ll appear behind you and beat you to death with her stupid fucking essay on why we should all be writing Star Wars tie-ins, and then you’ll go to writer hell where you’ll not only have to sit between Jerry Pournelle and Orson Scott Card you’ll have to explain how you were bitch-slapped to death by an irrelevant middle aged woman with a stupid essay.

Just don’t, okay?

]]> By: Paul Riddell http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2006/12/11/a-hierarchy-of-authors-part-three/comment-page-1/#comment-977 Paul Riddell Mon, 11 Dec 2006 19:47:00 +0000 http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2006/12/11/a-hierarchy-of-authors-part-three/#comment-977 Also, don't forget that the Indie and the Vain go together like rum and Coke. Without the Vain to keep hyping the Indie publisher and thereby give the Indie plenty of time to preen for yet another collection of convention photos with hot interns for <i>real</i> publishing houses, the Indie's pathetic empire would collapse faster than you can say "Kristine Kathryn Rusch". Sadly, because of an overdeveloped sense of patience, the Vain will continue to hold out hope that the Indie will get his/her shit together and, you know, publish the stuff that's already contracted for: meanwhile, the Indie will take the hype and use it to expand into new venues and new ego projects until the money and the publicity are exhausted. (Please see "Wired Books", "Eyeball Books", innumerable other examples.) This usually doesn't end well, as the Vain won't admit that s/he's been scammed, and the Indie won't follow through on those contractual obligations without the threat of overwhelming legal action or physical violence. (This has no bearing, he said, on the fact that the author's two contracted chrestomaties have been sitting with a certain POD publisher for so long that they're now referred to as "The Last Riddell Visions," not at all.) Also, don’t forget that the Indie and the Vain go together like rum and Coke. Without the Vain to keep hyping the Indie publisher and thereby give the Indie plenty of time to preen for yet another collection of convention photos with hot interns for real publishing houses, the Indie’s pathetic empire would collapse faster than you can say “Kristine Kathryn Rusch”. Sadly, because of an overdeveloped sense of patience, the Vain will continue to hold out hope that the Indie will get his/her shit together and, you know, publish the stuff that’s already contracted for: meanwhile, the Indie will take the hype and use it to expand into new venues and new ego projects until the money and the publicity are exhausted. (Please see “Wired Books”, “Eyeball Books”, innumerable other examples.) This usually doesn’t end well, as the Vain won’t admit that s/he’s been scammed, and the Indie won’t follow through on those contractual obligations without the threat of overwhelming legal action or physical violence. (This has no bearing, he said, on the fact that the author’s two contracted chrestomaties have been sitting with a certain POD publisher for so long that they’re now referred to as “The Last Riddell Visions,” not at all.)

]]> By: Heather http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2006/12/11/a-hierarchy-of-authors-part-three/comment-page-1/#comment-976 Heather Mon, 11 Dec 2006 17:17:00 +0000 http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2006/12/11/a-hierarchy-of-authors-part-three/#comment-976 Oh, you forgot another trait of the Vain. They want to maintain "creative control" over their work. They want to be able to choose their cover art (because they have no idea what sells, they just want something to accurately match their Vision), skip the whole editing process, etc. Oh, you forgot another trait of the Vain. They want to maintain “creative control” over their work. They want to be able to choose their cover art (because they have no idea what sells, they just want something to accurately match their Vision), skip the whole editing process, etc.

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