tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540649138800704991.post1543824919987881433..comments2023-04-15T07:49:12.549-05:00Comments on Library Educated: Author behaving badly or Wesley's feathers easily ruffled? Library Educatedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11441826320547182219noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540649138800704991.post-63582078349651077002016-03-08T14:46:13.674-06:002016-03-08T14:46:13.674-06:00Yes! Craziness!Yes! Craziness!Library Educatedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11441826320547182219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540649138800704991.post-45897223481388975782016-03-08T14:45:36.845-06:002016-03-08T14:45:36.845-06:00Oh my gosh - yes! Did you hear about the one autho...Oh my gosh - yes! Did you hear about the one author who tracked down the blogger at her house?! I mean WHAT IN THE WHAT people?!!! Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16463977985232229217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540649138800704991.post-21273421583264804622016-03-08T14:43:02.215-06:002016-03-08T14:43:02.215-06:00There's no going wrong with Paul Rudd, ever ev...There's no going wrong with Paul Rudd, ever ever.<br /><br />Yeah, I think it was probably just a joke that didn't land. But having heard horror stories about how authors react badly to criticism I was like what is THAT all about.Library Educatedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11441826320547182219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540649138800704991.post-49122005045212861822016-03-07T20:33:40.616-06:002016-03-07T20:33:40.616-06:00First off, the gif game is strong friend :)
I th...First off, the gif game is strong friend :) <br /><br />I think it's a bit strange too - maybe he was trying to be funny and it totally got lost in the middle of internet translation??? Hopefully he'll have some people remind him how things may come off if that wasn't his intention. Because otherwise - boo! Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16463977985232229217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540649138800704991.post-14520876022556949802016-03-07T16:32:38.860-06:002016-03-07T16:32:38.860-06:00Or maybe just have their publicist run all of the ...Or maybe just have their publicist run all of the social media? Or at the very least, have a trusted person eyeball your tweets before you send them out. All it takes is one "Oh I thought that was a direct message but I posted it to my author page" and the internet brouhaha gets rolling.<br /><br />I kept trying to think of the right word to describe his actions, and I think you hit it on the head with tacky AND unbecoming. Sometimes I think JD Salinger might have taken the best route, lol!Library Educatedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11441826320547182219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540649138800704991.post-52748977157319937872016-03-07T09:35:45.350-06:002016-03-07T09:35:45.350-06:00This is the great danger of our connected age. Oka...This is the great danger of our connected age. Okay, maybe danger is a strong word, but it seems like giving everyone, whether a random plebe or a best-selling author, a platform for their ideas is going to take some getting used to. I'm sure if you were a writer in the pre-Internet, pre-social-media days, it was kind of easy to just sit in a hidey hole and write books. You got feedback from your editor and whatever trusted writer-type friends you had, polished up the manuscript and sent it off, and then you could just...stay at home and work on the next one. (Take the extreme case of J. D. Salinger, for example.)<br /><br />But now, I think authors are being encouraged/feeling pressured into being a PUBLIC!!! persona, to the point of being like a brand, and so they (or a publicist maybe) have a Facebook, and a Twitter, and an Instagram or whatever else the kids have these days, and they are just flooded with feedback ("feedback"). And while a lot of it will be positive (if they're any good as a writer), at least a significant minority will be negative because there is no book anyone can write that EVERYONE will love unequivocally. It takes a special kind of confidence and inner conviction to not get your hackles up in the face of all that negativity. Honestly, I think most authors are better off avoiding Facebook/Twitter/whatever. Otherwise just one slip in your self control and maturity, and you get dragged into an embarrassing online feud or set yourself up for embarrassment.<br /><br /><br />This is all to say that said author probably should step away from social media, at least in the context of their author job. I agree, that kind of passive-aggressive and...tacky? weird? unbecoming...of them.Katherinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04687248923547966231noreply@blogger.com