This Cliff Burns is a pompus blowhard of the highest order.
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Cliff Burns is AWESOME. I've never felt so centered.
Dedicate your next book to him.
I know who this guy is!! I remember reading about him on Media bistro's galleycat, where he completely and utterly dissed an editor (actually, the entire publishing industry) on his blog.
I remember reading a little bit of his "opus" and thinking it was the biggest load of crap I've ever read in my life. He's never going to get traditionally published because a) he's a talentless hack and b) he has all the charm of a rabid dog.
I don't know who J***arya is in that thread, but I think I'm in love with him/her. Smackdown!
OMG, he replied to GalleyCat! And confirmed everything they said about him!
I hope the few people who are agreeing with Cliff in the threads on Library Thing are aware of his tendencies, otherwise I'm going to be dismayed at the folk over there.
Or I need to visit other threads, like a sane person.
You know, it's so funny how his name was niggling at me, then when I put the pieces together, how it all fell into place. I blogged about the GalleyCat incident, but it's no wonder I was drawing a blank on it, since it all happened a couple of days after one of my deadlines and my brain was cottage cheese. Even so, some part of my brain recalled what a dickhead this cat was.