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If you ever want to know why the publishing industry itself is extremely stagnant, look no further than the fact that mentally unstable agents and activists alike have infiltrated just about every corner.

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Listening to Twitter retards at all has been the reason why all Western media has been stagnant and uninteresting, come to think of it.
 
Skitzels said:
If you ever want to know why the publishing industry itself is extremely stagnant, look no further than the fact that mentally unstable agents and activists alike have infiltrated just about every corner.

Listening to Twitter retards at all has been the reason why all Western media has been stagnant and uninteresting, come to think of it.
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If I were king I'd put all these women in an arena and make them fight to the death with an assortment of handbags
 
TheAmbiguousLurker said:
The most emotion we get is her describing how the forest was a beautiful place to die.
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It's just bad prose all around. It's a first person account that doesn't reveal that person's inner life, but doesn't explain the mechanics of the scene either.
Why does she light three matches before she even starts to look for a candle? Why isn't the candle next to the matches? Why is a random piece of 'hearthstone' missing and why does it allow snakes to pass through the 'sod wall'? How does a match allow her to pick out all these details, but doesn't reveal the location of the candle immediately?
You can explain much of this by saying "she's panicked and confused", but then she isn't described as that either.
Lighting three matches to see your father die striking dramatic poses is more Loony Tunes than Western.
 
Noah Boddy said:
Don't rattlesnakes mostly only attack humans when they feel threatened? Why would one bite a sleeping human?
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@TheAmbiguousLurker was the father ever once described as someone who tosses and turns a lot out of his drunkenness or sleepless nights? If scorpions will sting you in bed over the slightest of movements, snakes can get spooked by sudden movements.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
@TheAmbiguousLurker was the father ever once described as someone who tosses and turns a lot out of his drunkenness or sleepless nights? If scorpions will sting you in bed over the slightest of movements, snakes can get spooked by sudden movements.
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It's not said, but it wouldn't be hard to see that happening. It's mentioned that he'll wake her up due to screaming about nightmares of the war he fought in or his dead wife.
 
Insanely good YA drama:

Author Cait Corrain Dropped by Agent, Loses Partnerships Amidst Review-Bombing Allegations (archive)​

Babe Wake Up, There’s New Goodreads Drama (archive)​

Receipts of Goodreads Sockpuppeting (archive)

  • Basically, debut author created sockpuppet accounts to leave 1-star reviews on all of the other debut books in her field while leaving 5-star reviews on hers.
  • The Slack chat of these debut authors found out and did a lot of vagueposting about it.
  • Debut author sockpuppeted a second "friend" account so the "friend" could confess to the scheme, making it a case of misguided support instead of Machiavellian intrigue. People quickly realized the "friend" did not exist.
  • Reylo is somehow involved?
  • Ancillary drama includes a black author calling the debut author an "albino snake," which generated discourse about whether it's ableist to call someone an albino, followed by the black author saying if you don't understand African American Southernisms related to snakes, you are racist.
She lost her book deal, her agent, and promotional deals with Illumicrate.
 
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Trianon said:
Basically, debut author created sockpuppet accounts to leave 1-star reviews on all of the other debut books in her field while leaving 5-star reviews on hers.
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While leaving 5-star reviews on hers.

How stupid do you have to be? If you want to sockpuppet something, then you do one or the other, not both. Everyone knows this!
 
Trianon said:
Ancillary drama includes a black author calling the debut author an "albino snake," which generated discourse about whether it's ableist to call someone an albino, followed by the black author saying if you don't understand African American Southernisms related to snakes, you are racist.
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The best part of this was the collateral damage inflicted by the slur "albino snake" because one of the other YA writers peripherally attached to this drama is actually an albino.
 
Mola Ram said:
The best part of this was the collateral damage inflicted by the slur "albino snake" because one of the other YA writers peripherally attached to this drama is actually an albino.
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The fact that you can throw a dart and hit an albino in this crowd is just spectacular. I've never even seen one. But you know they're here...... on #Booktwit.

Update: She blamed it on alcoholism and is taking a page from Keffals and claiming to go to rehab. (archive)
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One of the other things that did her in is that she tried to say her "friend" was an overzealous big name Reylo, and the Reylos cross-checked their entire timelines and found no evidence of her. L M A O.

In fact, the Reylos are now saying they were victimized by the author years ago.
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Also I have been informed this is not YA, it's ADULT SCIENCE FICTION FANTASY written by mentally ill women, they are totally different!!!!
 
Trianon said:
Insanely good YA drama:

Author Cait Corrain Dropped by Agent, Loses Partnerships Amidst Review-Bombing Allegations (archive)​

Babe Wake Up, There’s New Goodreads Drama (archive)​

Receipts of Goodreads Sockpuppeting (archive)

  • Basically, debut author created sockpuppet accounts to leave 1-star reviews on all of the other debut books in her field while leaving 5-star reviews on hers.
  • The Slack chat of these debut authors found out and did a lot of vagueposting about it.
  • Debut author sockpuppeted a second "friend" account so the "friend" could confess to the scheme, making it a case of misguided support instead of Machiavellian intrigue. People quickly realized the "friend" did not exist.
  • Reylo is somehow involved?
  • Ancillary drama includes a black author calling the debut author an "albino snake," which generated discourse about whether it's ableist to call someone an albino, followed by the black author saying if you don't understand African American Southernisms related to snakes, you are racist.
She lost her book deal, her agent, and promotional deals with Illumicrate.
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A beautiful example of everything that's wrong with fantasy/YA publishing in 2023. Not just the insecurity and cattiness of the author in question for review-bombing others' works, but the inevitable snowballing into race-baiting and general whining about how they're being targeted for being black/asian/queer/alphabet/whatever. That second article is more the 'victims' kvetching about hard it is being them than the actual story at hand.
 
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