Why Authors Are Crazy
When Your Agent Sends You E-Mail That Says I Know You’re Writing That Tumblr and You’d Better Stop Before Your Editor Figures It Out Too
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thanks it's been fun
When It Just So Happens that The Best Books of the Year Lists are Entirely Populated By Books That Came Out in the Last Six Weeks
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november is for closers
When Unpublished Authors Accuse You of Being Ungrateful Because You Don’t Fart Sunshine Over Every Little Thing About Being Published
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authors
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yeah right if you had a contract/agent/deal you'd just be ever so very grateful that you'd never be upset about anything
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When Another Author is Melting Down Spectacularly and You Don’t Dare Get Involved But You Know Where to Find ALLLLLL the Pertinent Links
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authors
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we're bad people
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most of us will admit this
When Your Editor Wants You to Blurb the Book of the Harridan Who Has Been Trashing Your Book All Over the Internet for Two Years
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blurbs
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why yes i'll give you a quote it was an assbreaking work of a staggering asshole
When Your Publisher Puts Out Booklists by Subject and They Don’t Include Your Title
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publishers
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marketing
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screw you and your authentic western that we didn't put on the westerns for little desperadoes list
When The Editor Who Just Acquired Your Book Abruptly Quits and Moves to Another House
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editors
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why did you abandon me?
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i promise i'll be good mommy please don't go
The Ninth Time Your Publicist Says “Let Me Get Back to You!”
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publicists
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i don't want to spoil the ending for you
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but they're really never going to get back to you
When Your Book Bestie Gets Slammed by Kirkus and All You Can Do is Send E-Mail
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reviews
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feels across the miles
When You Find Out Your Publisher Put the Stock Photo You Found on Someone Else’s Cover
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that's my prom dress bitch