Comments on: Axiom #2: Riddell’s Law

By: Jermaine

Jermaine — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 04:29:42 +0000

After reading the NY Times article and checking the bestsellers list for that week it occurred to me that I have never heard of ANY of the authors, Erma Bombeck aside. That being said, a novel written prior to the summer of love might very well flop in the cocaine/disco era.

Bombeck of course, is always a good read. But growing up in the 80s and 90s, there’s a great deal of it I just don’t relate to, though I see the humor in it. If a book about the suburbs written in 1977 can still get a chuckle from a 19y/o in 1999, it’s a damn fine piece of work.

By: Lee Battersby

Lee Battersby — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 23:09:00 +0000

Ahhhh, memories of the Scot Snow imbroglio abound

Short version: i rejected his story. He blogged about how I was an idiot who didn’t realise what a genius he was, and how it was okay because Argosy had received it and gone “absolutely bugfuck” for it, so he was going to get a nice fat cheque and yah-boo sux to my little rag, several friends read this, I got emails, I blogged a response.

Argosy, of course, were closed to submissions, and the editor happily visited scot’s LJ to say this when Scot’s post was pointed out to him. As did several other editors who were mentioned in the post and who had not received the stories scot mentioned. People started digging. People started posting. Scot’s entire bibliography was dissasembled, lie by lie.

Scot now plays guitar for a crust….

By: Mike Toot

Mike Toot — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 05:02:00 +0000

One of my all-time favorite sayings is, “Just because nobody understands you, it doesn’t mean you’re a genius.”

Don’t know who coined that one, but I wish I had.

By: Sean Lindsay

Sean Lindsay — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:41:00 +0000

That’s a creepy, discomfiting glimpse into the psyche of a truly bad writer. You may have to read something from Penguin Classics just to wash it out.

By: Mike Toot

Mike Toot — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:04:00 +0000

For an example of why conspiracy theorists shouldn't be allowed near a computer, see The Rejecter versus a POD author.

By: Paul Riddell

Paul Riddell — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:14:00 +0000

The problem is that most of these paranoiacs think that they’re the star in some literary reprise of The Prisoner. Actually, they need a quote from the The Prisoner crossover fanfiction that dare not speak its name: “Uhhhh…like, Number One is full of Number Two. Huh huh huh huh.”