Self-important self-published author self-destructs.

[seawasp]

 As seen multiple places around my FLists, an author who thinks having a lot of twits... er, Twitter followers behind him means that he somehow ISN'T self published, and ISN'T subject to any other rules, including definitions of words in dictionaries and TOS agreements and basic courtesy as well.

  This is what not to do.

Comments

[shanejayell.livejournal.com]

Love the icon, by the way. *lol*

[lilfluff.livejournal.com]

Ouch.

I'd say he ended up triggering Goodwin's law with the, oh noes my thread was moved (gee really, no deleted, merely moved?) the mods are Nazis!, response. Accept given the other quotes I suspect he has his own version of Goodwin's law that would show how he couldn't possibly have triggered it.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Please! He was telling the mods the Truth! And they can't handle the Truth!

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Oi, ow. May the writing gods save me from that level of stupidity. I can whiney about my sales, but at least I've got enough self-awareness to realize I'm not a writing god.

(In a perfect world I'd have Bujold's knack for plot and characterization and Asimov's speed.)

[seawasp]

"Got it, we're delivering you Asimov's knack for plot and characterization and Bujold's speed."

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Got that one down already, thanks. ;p

[krmtdfrog.livejournal.com]

ok, that was damned funny

[muirecan.livejournal.com]

I've seen his books on Amazon but never been taken enough by his descriptions of the books to grab one to read. And frankly that isn't a way to impress me that I should add him to my reading list.

[anghara.livejournal.com]

This this THIS is why "self-pub" has such a bad rap - and in a Worm-Ouroboros-eating-its-own-tail kind of way he is perpetuating a self-fulfilling prophecy right here. How on earth can anyone sit there and try to make a case that publishing his own books doesn't constitute self-publishing? AND WHERE DOES HE GET OFF COMPARING *HIMSELF* TO PEOPLE LIKE HOBB AND TOLKIEN?!?

[caper-est.livejournal.com]

"Combining the painstaking scientific rigour of Tolkien, the searing social conscience of Goodkind, and the feelgood comedic flair of Hobb, this was the book only one man would DARE to publish! Dare YOU, my friends, experience the life-changing literary experience of some stuff happening and then some other stuff happening and then some FURTHER STUFF happening?!?!"

[gary-jordan.livejournal.com]

The heartrate and bloodpressure of GARY Jordan is superior to that of J.R.R.TOLKIEN. That's right, ladies and gentleman. The fantasy writer Gary Jordan can be compared favorably to Tolkien. If you disagree, you can be compared to Hermann Goering!

[xpioti.livejournal.com]

I read the thread talking about this on Fantasy-Fiction.com (or whatever the spelling is), and I was delighted! I've never actually read Goodkind or Hobb, so I've added them to my reading list. :) (The one I'm going to start working on just as soon as I get some copious spare time. I think that'll happen in September of 2013...)

[ariaflame.livejournal.com]

Definite Dunning-Kruger candidate at best.

[richardboustead.livejournal.com]

Didn't some place do a study once where they found that people consistently rated themselves as "above average" and everyone else as "below average", and that result was the same for all participants? Simply proved people are terrible at rating their own ability.

Was the author in the wrong? Yes. He didn't fit the $60m and +10 books per year definition, so therefore he was 'small press'. However another curious trait people have is that in the face of being proven wrong, they will defend the incorrect viewpoint more and more energetically depending on how much they've put into it. So the author with 18 books (Quality notwithstanding) and having developed his own publishing company has put a lot into it, so he's putting a lot of effort into the argument. Which devolves to emotional terms with startling rapidity once facts are introduced to the equation. Which spectators call a meltdown (another emotive term), and the entire situation continues spiraling downwards.

I think what I've written there is a decent piece of insight, but I guarantee that at least half of the people who read it will think it's wrong. :P