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04-20-2017, 02:41 PM | #76 |
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I shared this on my twitter feed, though my following is negligible at this point. Anyway, here I was thinking only celebs had feuds this petty in nature. I mean, seriously, how low do you have to sink to have your readers go and give someone else’s hard work bad reviews just to outsell him? Your goals shouldn’t be to compete with other authors: we all do that enough as it is just by the nature of the business. Beale should be working with Scalzi, though I understand how hard that may be given their history. I wonder, do either of them even remember who threw the first punch, or what it was about in the first place?
While I understand what some posters are talking about when they dismiss the similarity between the covers, implying that there’s bound to be cross-overs with so much being published, I feel I must make a counterpoint: There are a million ways to skin a cat, the putty in this case a cover. Sci-fi alone offering and endless supply of concepts to mix and match with, limited only by the imagination. From a general gist of what the books about, or portraying a scene in the book, or a collage of the two, just to name a few. There’s just so much someone could think up to differentiate their cover from someone else’s. Then again, this point is mute because we’ve already been told in the article that Beale was out to rip-off Scalzi, so instead of making an original argument I’m just ending up beating a dead horse. Quote:
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04-22-2017, 06:41 PM | #78 |
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LOL... and they expect to get away with that?
John Scalzi - The Collapsing Empire Johan Kalsi - The Corroding Empire As the first seems to be a well known writer, and the second is not, the resemblance in cover/font, title, and even name, makes it very much look like as if an unknown writer is trying to capitalize on typing mistakes and/or ride the wave of a popular book or author. Last edited by Katsunami; 04-22-2017 at 06:46 PM. |
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I think it's less about capitalizing and more about trying to poke Scalzi and Tor Books with a sharp stick.
He had this to say about Scalzi a few years ago: Quote:
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04-23-2017, 08:26 AM | #81 |
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He's got a point. I won't comment on the "mediocre", or "hack", or "no talent" claims, but as much as I enjoyed Old Man's War (and as much as I despise Beale and his cronies), it WAS a color-by-numbers Heinlein ripoff.
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Many authors have of course enjoyed highly successful careers through "writing by the numbers" formulaic plots, particularly in the mystery and romance genres. Nothing inherently wrong with that. Writing doesn't always have to be great literature; sometimes it's just a way to pay the bills.
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It seems to me many people think that writers should give their work freely and forever with no thought of making money themselves. More recently on the paid hacks: the great western genre writers. |
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I find Vox Day/Theodore Robert Beale keeps popping up. His cranky petulant shenanigans just keep invading the places I enjoy finding things to read. As an author, he's yawn-worthy; as an agitator, he seems to be relentless. His ongoing "thing" about John Scalzi (quite a decent author, in my humble opinion) has become tiresome.
Vox Day (Theodore Beale) reminds me of a slow flying giant horse fly that keeps buzzing around outside the screen porch (my favorite reading spot). He keeps trying to invade my reading space. I can't squirt the bug killer through the screen because it would mess up my screen. Think of all the trouble he went to in having this cover made, just as an annoyance. Does this mean that he wants the book to be confused with Scalzi's book? Scalzi's work stands on its own. Once again, Vox Day is buzzing around trying to get attention, yawn. |
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