'Smile Time'
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Fewer women have the luxury of being enormous assholes.
And thus I want great books, books for our own time, written by those who have staked everything on literature, not just a couple of years in Iowa City.
Bless your heart, Alex. You're working for the New York Daily News. If you had staked everything, you'd be in a garret typing feverishly.
Isn't it priceless, Ginger? I was stuck between appalled and amused.
Enormous asshole is right, I couldn't even finish it.
If we are, the blow back is huge.In a way, I related to that guy, although I think I'm an honest reviewer and don't try to stick people with my baggage.I did think though that there are some thoughts that are not really meant for the public. Ginger, if I send you my MS is your profile address all right?
Yes, it is, Erika. I got distracted yesterday.
Ok, just checking. I bet I have some friends I have four e-mails for. I keep thinking I'll make everything current, but everything is more interesting than that. So, insent.
Writer Beware ( [link] ) and SFWA are both calling out Random House's Hydra imprint. Scalzi has it too ( [link] ).
It's also apparently being critiqued by Cory Doctorow on Boing Boing.
Random House replied and the letter has been "translated" by Jeremiah Tolbert: [link]
"We hired someone from the record industry, and we were astonished to learn that you could fuck over writers in ways we never even imagined. So we immediately set about setting up an imprint where we could dick over writers like record companies have been screwing over musicans for years."
Heh. Not that it's funny.