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

[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!