Writerly Ways

[cornerofmadness]

In the last two days I've spent nearly 20 hours working on editing Blood Red Roulette and I would have skipped this except this came across my FB feed yesterday. Let us talk about professionalism. Or how NOT to be professional.

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Yeah soooo, one I have no idea what Goodkind is bitching about. That's a great cover. Even if it did suck, you don't do this. I've been lucky. I've had wonderful covers but even if I didn't, the time to complain about it is in the production stage. I find it hard to believe that a big name publisher would give the author even less input than I would get as an indie (but maybe that's true because sometimes I've seen covers that made me wonder).

What you don't do is embarrass the artist on twitter. Judging by comments Goodkind is sort of known for being a pain in the ass. One of my friends asked a good question, why hasn't the publisher stepped in and put a stop to it? (maybe they have by now). I'm not a huge goodkind fan but this was enough that even if I had been a fan, I'd stop reading right about now.

Professionalism, it matters. Hell being a decent human being matters, dogging someone out like this is just nasty.


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Comments

[smittenbyu]

wow! That's horrible thing to do!! We were working with a graphic designer recently and we weren't too pleased with the end result. But we worked things out. And are fine with the end product. We realised going in we all had very different expectations. But would never think to do this! wow....

[cornerofmadness]

I know right? It's just amazingly unprofessional

[spikedluv]

Wow, that is really crappy behavior.

[rahirah]

Goodkind is known for being an asshole (and for writing laughably bad fantasy himself, so he's got no room to throw stones.)

[cornerofmadness]

that is what I keep hearing. I know I didn't like what I read by him.

[cornerofmadness]

Exceedingly bad.

[suzume]

I tend to get the impression that you get more input as an indie author than as a pro (and this is based on seeing how you have some interaction, via the publisher, with the artists assigned to cover your work.) (I was always having to tell my pal Alejandro 'if I were getting published by some big name publisher, I'm sure I could mention you, but they'd probably already have someone in mind')......

.....but THAT BEING SAID, what a jackass-tastic way to treat someone who collaborated on your book in this manner. I mean, woah, someone's truly entered the entitled jerk phase of their career (assuming he wasn't there already).

[cornerofmadness]

Yeah i'm not sure big publishers give authors much leeway for art. (though I'd still mention Alejandro anyhow :-) just in case).

From what I've read Goodkind's been in the jackass phase for a long while now

[suzume]

Yeah, I thought probably (but if I were actually in a position to mention Alejandro, I don't see what it would hurt to try ^^;).


Some people... :/

[cornerofmadness]

It certainly wouldn't hurt.

He was at it again