Now that is a highly interesting thread. Not necessary the words out of Guy Haley in his blog and comments, but rather what was said here, basically tearing him a new [insert whatever your dirty imaginagion allows at this time]. And one quote from him (seen it a lot of times reading all the posts) that is noteworthy is this one:
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Originally Posted by Guy Haley
Before I begin, I would like to wholeheartedly thank all those people, and you are in a fantastic moral majority, thankfully, who have paid for my book. Whether you loved it or hated it or fed it to the dog, thank you. Loving message ends. Rant begins.
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He should have just quit right there, but no, he has to express in detail that
you, you, and you should pay him the 16 pence whether you like, may like, not like his book. And then at the end he finally says what you wants of you:
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Originally Posted by Guy Haley
It’s pennies over £2.00. For God’s sake, don’t be a twat.
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Where is it pennies over 2 pounds? It is pennies (16) he gets and if that is all he wants from me he could ask for the 16 pennies, but no I would have waste £1.84 additionaly.
If you ask me (and nobody asked of course) then I would volunteer this answer. And since nobody asked, here goes anyway: All Guy Haley wants is beeing made more popular than he actually is in this one book, in order to cheat his way in for continued book contracts later on. He is entitled to think so, but then again he does have kid(s) he needs to support. If he is not that good (yet) and cannot support himself and starving kid, then he should not be a full-time author, but only write part-time and have another part time real job. He does not want your money, he wants book-sales that the publisher gets credit for. If he wanted money as compensation, he might as well take advantage of pirating by making it legit.
How so? Read
this proposal for undercutting pirating.