Re: anything published recently?

On 2008-03-24 06:31:50 -0400, Alan Hope <usenet.identity@xxxxxxxxx> said:

Wildepad goes:

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:39:00 -0700 (PDT), Heather Denkmire
<heather@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

They actually don't want to post their publishing successes because
they believe they might get torn down by people. That's really too
bad.

There's a practical side -- if someone sounds a little too happy or
proud of their latest novel, one of the creepycrawliuppias here might
decide to be 'cute' and put a negative review of it on Amazon, thus
damaging not only current sales but also affecting the next book deal.

Do you have any evidence of anyone here doing any such thing?

Even if it's just something on an e-zine, the flakes here are likely
to get real snarky in the comments/letters section.

Do you have any evidence etc?

I don't have any evidence of those things, but, since strangers emailed me their publishing "yahoo" -- actually, just one person, but, for some reason I used the plural up there and was going to be consistent in this post. But, you know how absolutely diabolical I am. Up to no good. Contradictions mean I'm a liar.

Anyway, Alan, with the way you treat people here in this newsgroup, do you actually think people want to expose their underbellies by announcing they're proud of themselves?

Not that I think you'd personally go after someone who was tooting their own horn (unless it was one or two other regulars, maybe). But, how do they know that you'd let it go or maybe even congratulate them?

Obviously, this hasn't been a forum for a while where the underbelly exposure is a good idea.

Maybe more people will realize it's helpful to the rest of us writers if they (you included) post regularly about writing successes?

--Heather


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