So This Happened

I woke up this morning to two things: a heat wave, and an absolutely crazycakes publishing story posted to my goodreads stream.

I'm not going to link directly to the story, for reasons that will hopefully become clear, but I wanted to talk a little bit about some of the reactions, and how it played right into a lot of those of us in publishing's insecurities and fantasies in a really perfect way.

In this story, the author in question alleged that she'd self-published an ebook to amazon and...