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Originally Posted by sabredog
Does not matter if she was asked to voice her opinion or spoke about it regardless, the words were still spoken.
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Correct. Plus, *she* was the one that brought self-publishing into the interview. She was asked a generic question; she gave a *specific* reply.
The interviewer herself addressed the issue in the comments I linked to at the Passive Voice. Here:
http://www.thepassivevoice.com/08/20...#comment-45488
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I did my due diligence on that particular question (the only follow-up I submitted to her past the original questionnaire). I stopped short of sending statistics to inform Ms. Grafton about how common it is to be an indie success, because I’ve found that puts interview subjects on the defensive, as a reporter.
I’m not writing for 60 Minutes here. This is a local topical news blog. It wasn’t my intention to alienate the interview subject or castigate her for being out of her depth. Believe me, had she been a serial killer or a political candidate, I’d have been much harder on her, but this wasn’t that kind of article–and no matter what, I’m biased by my full-time job as an indie author, so this was a tricky situation.
Her response was that the best-selling indies weren’t the ones she was talking about, which told me that the information embedded in the question didn’t even register. All she could relate to was the awful-selling self-published who go to the extreme of sending her copies of their horrible masterpieces.
Maybe not the most helpful or gracious answer, but fair enough. To Sue Grafton, indie authors = what’s sitting on her desk. It’s a disappointing answer, but it’s her reality, I suppose.
Regardless, it was Ms. Grafton who brought self-publishing into the conversation. Not I.
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The fact that just because *some* self-published material may not be ready for prime time does not imply that *all* or even a majority of such material isn't. That kind of ignorant over-generalization is *lazy*, muddy thinking.
You might as well equate all traditionally-published material with the likes of this:
http://www.amazon.com/Shore-Thing-Ni.../dp/1451623747
(Currently sitting in the 475,000 range on Amazon, for Simon and Shuster fans out there.)
If she's going to judge people by what *others* do, she should be prepared to be similarly judged.
