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Old 09-13-2011, 08:21 AM   #1
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Rude author blasts commentor who complains about typos
I debated posting this on my blog, but I am not sure I want to bring this fool's attention down upon me

Anyway, I have been sort of following this blog by a guy who claims to want to sell 500,000 ebooks by Christmas. He posted about finally finishing the next 'part' of the book (he seems to be releasing it in novella-sized installments) and in the update he says this:

Part One has now been downloaded or read by some 6,500 people. I just hope that I haven't given them any ideas. And so, as my experiment continues into its third month, I have a total readership of almost 7,000. OK so there are some typos in part one, but I am a passionate guy. I don't have time to read my own book 100 times before I publish. I write, smoke, drink and publish. Battaboom battabing. Typos are for my editor to sort out when I eventually get a publishing deal. If?

He gets a comment about how, as a sole proprietor author type, they actually ARE his problem. And he responds today with an epic rant, the high point of which was this:

Lastly and most importantly: Can you understand this? TXT U 2MOZ. The world is changing. Are semi-colons and colons so vital anymore? If I write the city of Lindon, do you realise that I actually meant London? Of course you do. So get off your high horse and tell your network of Ebook bloggers to go ind fcuk themselffs.

Umm...wow. I hope he actually does NOT sell 500,000 books, just so this doesn't validate his nasty attitude as being a good business strategy. Anyway, if anybody wants to go comment to this idiot, feel free
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Old 09-13-2011, 08:30 AM   #2
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That blogger is an attention whore. This ignorant outburst will only help him garner even more. Best SEO tool there is.
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Old 09-13-2011, 08:45 AM   #3
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Old 09-13-2011, 08:45 AM   #4
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Sounds like another adolescent of the internet. "Let me tell you how unique I am before I address the issue."

Where's the news now in this, dear Anonymous...
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Old 09-13-2011, 08:49 AM   #5
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High strung, unbalanced but always fun to watch, authors always seem to show why publishers, agents and other layers of abstraction are oh so important for many authors. I wonder how many greats of the past would likely have been exposed as the rude maladapted nutbars they really were in real life.

Thanks for the very funny link. Maybe the guy is simply channeling his inner Harlan Ellison?
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Old 09-13-2011, 08:57 AM   #6
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Rap has been around for a while.
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Old 09-13-2011, 10:31 AM   #8
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Maybe he is a rapper.
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Old 09-13-2011, 11:33 AM   #9
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I think most of the best creative types are mentally damaged in some way. This guy raises an interesting point, but I think he's looking at it the wrong way around.

http://www.mikeoliveri.com/2011/08/0...ff-themselves/

It isn't so much that writing as a profession leads to mental illness, I think it's more that writing attracts a lot of people with mental illness. It's something you can do on your own, and until fairly recently you never really had to interact with "normal" people.
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Old 09-13-2011, 11:38 AM   #10
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Reality show stars are also champions of the cause. I've lost count of how many I've heard say things like 'conversate'. *shudder*


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Old 09-13-2011, 11:41 AM   #11
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Lastly and most importantly: Can you understand this? TXT U 2MOZ. The world is changing. Are semi-colons and colons so vital anymore? If I write the city of Lindon, do you realise that I actually meant London? Of course you do. So get off your high horse and tell your network of Ebook bloggers to go ind fcuk themselffs.
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Old 09-13-2011, 11:50 AM   #12
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More importantly than the last most importantly: The one thing that seperates me from any of you boys out there is this...I DO NOT READ. I don't read other people's books, I don't watch movies, I don't speak to anyone. I am never influenced by anyone else. When you read my stories you are reading my mind and If I have to apologise for that then so be it.
I surely do not want to waste my time reading material written by someone who doesn't read. It is through the osmotic process that occurs while reading that authors learn to write better than when all they have ia blank slate.

I find myself amused by his assertion that he remains uninfluenced by anyone. He must live in an incubator sans windows.
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Old 09-13-2011, 11:53 AM   #13
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I think most of the best creative types are mentally damaged in some way. This guy raises an interesting point, but I think he's looking at it the wrong way around.
No, no, he's not mentally damaged, he's just trying to prove that you don't have to read to write:
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More importantly than the last most importantly: The one thing that seperates me from any of you boys out there is this...I DO NOT READ. I don't read other people's books, I don't watch movies, I don't speak to anyone. I am never influenced by anyone else. When you read my stories you are reading my mind and If I have to apologise for that then so be it.
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I find myself amused by his assertion that he remains uninfluenced by anyone. He must live in an incubator sans windows.
No movies, no TV, no books, no music, no talking to people ever? If only he'd cut out the internet. I think that would be a wonderful solution for everyone involved.

But, no, seriously, as previously called: this is someone trying to be a professional troll.
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