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.

Aw man. I really liked Wool.

I gather he's well-known in more than his own mind? My limited SFF reading hinders me here.

His one self-published book has a fair amount of buzz, but I doubt I'd have recognized his name on its own (i.e. without "the author of Wool" tacked on to remind me why I should recognize him).

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

I just refreshed the page and it seems to be live still.

Oh, and it's TOTALLY OKAY that he called her a crazy bitch, because HIS WIFE agreed that she would have slapped that bitch! (Some of his best friends, etc.)

Just means your wife is as big of a dick as you, dude. Which is not a vindication.

But his tongue was in his cheek!

Are you another one of those humorless feminists?

Ah, wait, I found it. Ew.