Comments on: Tales of Publishing Snob

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 12:50:32 +0000

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By: Karin Gillespie

Karin Gillespie — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 15:07:38 +0000

I don’t see why. Don’t all kinds of people train for long years in their respective professions? Is it a mark of an egomaniac to learn a craft. Would you think this comment was arrogant if it came from a plumber or an electrician?

By: Jenn

Jenn — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 14:53:17 +0000

I spent fifteen years learning to write until I felt ready to submit my work to an agent. I went to writers conferences, read tons of craft books and joined a novel critique group. He’d never written anything before his first novel and pounded out it out over a period of six months.

This comment you made does sound egotistical

By: Karin Gillespie

Karin Gillespie — Sun, 05 Jun 2005 22:35:31 +0000

Hmm, I looked at several biographies of J. K Rowlings and I don’t see any evidence of her having self-published. I’d also like to emphasize that I have nothing against self-published books. The Celestine Prophecy was self-published and a great success!

Self-publishing and vanity presses are savvy moves for many authors who can’t interest traditonal publishers. But to write a error-riddled, incoherent book and expect to get media attention and bookstore placement is a bit much. That was my entire point but obviously I didn’t do a good job of communicating it. Mea culpa.

By: Jenn

Jenn — Sun, 05 Jun 2005 18:48:00 +0000

I wonder if JK Rowling knows she is not in this authors class!
Not having spent years perfecting her writing skills.

OH well she does have her millions to console her

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 29 May 2005 14:51:14 +0000

In answer to your previous post, Karin, I was not referring to your usage of “rife” in the original article. FWIW.

By: Karin Gillespie

Karin Gillespie — Fri, 27 May 2005 23:32:14 +0000

I guess we all make mistakes.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 27 May 2005 23:17:59 +0000

The error to which I was referring is the question mark inside the quotation marks. It belongs outside because there was no question mark in the original text.

By: Karin Gillespie

Karin Gillespie — Fri, 27 May 2005 02:17:41 +0000

“Rife” is the correct usage in that sentence.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 27 May 2005 01:55:10 +0000

I see that Gaudere’s Law is alive and well. The law states that any post made to point out a spelling or grammar error will invariably contain a spelling or grammar error. My post above has a punctuation error in the first sentence.