Author Throw Down!
No. It's not a cage match, although I wouldn't mind seeing that. Damon Lindelof and George RR Martin are having an author feud h
. Sort of. In a New Yorker interview, Martin talked about his disappointment with how Lost ended and talked about being worried that he'd f*ck up the ending of his Fire and Ice series and "do a Lost."
Lindelof fired back with a series of tweets. Seriously, has he seen Martin's books? That man could no more be held to 140 characters than lightning could be bottled. Plus, it's really hard to have a Twitter feud with a guy who is a) not on Twitter and b) is traveling and apparently doesn't take his computer with him.
Regardless, it all reminds me a little of that book How I Became a Famous Novelist which if you haven't read, you should. You will alternately laugh and weep as Hely lays bare what so much of us experience in the publishing industry. In the book, the narrator sort of accidentally starts a feud with a bestselling author and it vaults his own book into the limelight.
So I'm trying to decide with whom to feud. I've publicly dissed Stephenie Meyer and Elizabeth Gilbert repeatedly. They don't seem to care. Clearly I need a much more thin-skinned bestseller or a more cogent and pointed attack. Lindelof seems pretty touchy and I did hate pretty much the entire last season of Lost. Really? C.J. from West Wing and a magic spring in a cave? That's all they had for me? But now it seems done.
Anybody have any suggestions?
. Sort of. In a New Yorker interview, Martin talked about his disappointment with how Lost ended and talked about being worried that he'd f*ck up the ending of his Fire and Ice series and "do a Lost."
Lindelof fired back with a series of tweets. Seriously, has he seen Martin's books? That man could no more be held to 140 characters than lightning could be bottled. Plus, it's really hard to have a Twitter feud with a guy who is a) not on Twitter and b) is traveling and apparently doesn't take his computer with him.
Regardless, it all reminds me a little of that book How I Became a Famous Novelist which if you haven't read, you should. You will alternately laugh and weep as Hely lays bare what so much of us experience in the publishing industry. In the book, the narrator sort of accidentally starts a feud with a bestselling author and it vaults his own book into the limelight.
So I'm trying to decide with whom to feud. I've publicly dissed Stephenie Meyer and Elizabeth Gilbert repeatedly. They don't seem to care. Clearly I need a much more thin-skinned bestseller or a more cogent and pointed attack. Lindelof seems pretty touchy and I did hate pretty much the entire last season of Lost. Really? C.J. from West Wing and a magic spring in a cave? That's all they had for me? But now it seems done.
Anybody have any suggestions?
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