The Authors’ Oath

The publishing world is full of scandal. Whether it’s Ms Rowling’s decision to pretend to be a Royal Military Police ex-serviceman, or Random Penguin’s continual attempts to screw authors out of a decent living through their “self-published division” of Author Solutions, It’s about time we came up with something to give us all a little bit of accountability. Hippocrates seemed like a good enough place to start:

“I swear by Patterson, Rowling, King, and Koontz and I take to witness all the read...