Re: anything published recently?

In article <47e9a112$0$6498$4c368faf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, serenebabe
<serenebabe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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

If anyone's intimidated by jerks on Usenet, they won't have a tough
enough skin to make it as an author. Sorry, but that's how it is. One
of the things I tell people about is a small ceramic rhino I keep on my
desk to remind me of this. It's something that was a prize in a tin of
English tea once.

It's one thing to listen to criticism about technique or even story,
might help, who knows. But when people back off posting about successes
because of fear of jerks, that's just sad.

You have to remember that almost without fail, the jerks don't have
much in the way of credits themselves, or they're just insecure
sarcastic psychos who really need to get a life.

I don't post on newsgroups much about successes of my own or my
students or clients because, frankly, we have a whole lot of them and
it can intimidate people. So that's another factor. But back off
because of what a jerk might say?

Make out a sign that says SCREW 'EM and tape it to your wall. Works
wonders for your sense of humor.
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