authors behaving criminally
Sep. 15th, 2012 12:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
julesjonesNormal author behaviour on receiving the latest rejection from a literary agent: weep on their friends' shoulders and maybe curse the agent once or twice in a locked blog post or on an author's forum in a manner that it makes it clear they're just letting off steam, before sending the next query letter out.
Authors behaving badly: send abusive emails to the agent, post multiple self-pitying rants in public about !@#$%^ !@#$% who can't recognise genius when they see it, and stalk agent and agent's friends online for a while, maybe start posting 1 star reviews of books by agent's clients.
Authors behaving criminally: send threatening emails to agent, and then track down agent in meatspace and physically assault them.
No, I'm not kidding. Someone allegedly did this to literary agent and book blogger Bookalicious. Good round up at mybookgoggles. There are some more horrifying tales from publishing insiders in the Absolute Write thread discussing this incident.
And this, children, is why we can't have nice things like personalised rejections.
Authors behaving badly: send abusive emails to the agent, post multiple self-pitying rants in public about !@#$%^ !@#$% who can't recognise genius when they see it, and stalk agent and agent's friends online for a while, maybe start posting 1 star reviews of books by agent's clients.
Authors behaving criminally: send threatening emails to agent, and then track down agent in meatspace and physically assault them.
No, I'm not kidding. Someone allegedly did this to literary agent and book blogger Bookalicious. Good round up at mybookgoggles. There are some more horrifying tales from publishing insiders in the Absolute Write thread discussing this incident.
And this, children, is why we can't have nice things like personalised rejections.