I saw Seanan talking about that on Twitter but couldn't find it. Let's see...

Ew. There are less gross ways to tell that story. And here I had been intrigued by the Wool phenomenon and kind of wanted to check it out.

Less gross? That's all you've got?

I'm going to blog about it later. Like I said to Sox, if a male YA writer talked about a female YA writer that way online, the wrath that would befall him would be epic.

Nothing proves you're a great writer better than using the two most cliched female slurs in history -- bitch and crazy.

Boy, the comments, as always, are the crowning glory.

"Yeah, man! I would have wanted to slap that bitch too!"

Wow, that was an unpleasant and uncomfortable read. But really efficient in conveying that I never want to have a conversation with this guy. Even the stuff that he wasn't saying to deliberately be provocative makes me roll my eyes:

those fine Canadians who were just as sweet and hilarious as you expect Canadians to be

Seriously? It's just so incredibly self-congratulatory from beginning to end, and only a couple people on the first page of comments is taking him to task for anything.

I mean, there is so clearly a way (myriad ways!) to tell that story and make stupid lady seem stupid without also painting himself an ass.

Hmm? What's going on?

Consuela, someone is WRONG on the internets.

Yeah, I went and read it. Sounds like a frustrating and obnoxious experience, but a little too self-congratulatory for NOT pulling the "do you know who I am" card (which is in some cases as obnoxious as pulling that card!!), and as someone said above, if the best you can do is "crazy bitch" you ought to consider a better way to tell it. I mean...crazy? Really? Doesn't sound like any of it was... Obnoxious. Overly-ambitious. Possibly/probably lying. But crazy? No. Not to mention that (a) if the "sweet" canadians are smart, they can see through her BS on their own, and if they can't, they need some toughening up, and (b) she IS right in a lot of ways. Most self-published stuff IS dreck, and WON"T win you tons of money and accolades. Sometimes you're the exception to the rule, dude.

Seriously? It's just so incredibly self-congratulatory from beginning to end

I particularly liked the part where he flips his badge over so nobody can see his name, so they think they're just conversing with An Ordinary Schmuck (Like Them), instead of whoever he is, which must be Someone Important Despite Self-Publishing. (I gather he's well-known in more than his own mind? My limited SFF reading hinders me here.)

... and it looks like that post is gone: the link I followed from Twitter doesn't resolve.

Woops! Someone depants himself in public.

So what happened, exactly? Self-published author-made-good meets someone who doesn't know who he is, and calls her stupid & ugly online in retaliation?

Self-published author-made-good meets someone who doesn't know who he is, and calls her stupid & ugly online in retaliation?

Basically, he's in line for the Hugos, and chatting with some "nice Canadians" and telling them about how self-publishing is Teh Bombz, and some woman (CLEARLY a "crazy bitch!") comes up to them and is suggesting she knows people who can get them published/get an agent/she interned at a magazine once, and he is all "OMG but you are WRONG and self publishing is AWWESOME" and she's like "Um, whatevs, who the hell are you" and he's all "Oh, HAHAHA I"M NOBODY" and then goes and rips her a new one on the internet. But he wins anyway, because the Canadian contacted him later to find out his amazing sources of power and wisdom.