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Old 12-09-2017, 02:11 AM   #56
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If that's the case, Steven, then I suggest you take a really good look at the reactions you're getting here - because you are seeing how a large portion of the population will react. Your "About Me" page is giving all the wrong impressions.

It would be the same if you spent your "About Me" page talking with great passion about politics or sexual preferences (I shudder to think what Heinlein's "about me" page might have looked like, had he been unwise enough to discourse on the subject outside his fiction ).

As I noted above, you can be openly passionate about many subjects, but steer clear of the big three if you don't want people to assume these will show in your work.


Allegories often appear in the eye of the reader that were not intended by the author. Tolkien strongly rejected many of the allegories that others found in his books.

While Orson Scott Card managed to keep his mouth shut outside his books, few had any complaints, but now many boycott his books; not for any content issues, but because they find him personally offensive.

Your public image matters if you don't want to turn people away before they've even managed to read the blurb on your books.
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