George R.R. Martin is not your bitch

[drwex]

Gaiman's "entitlement issues" blog entry says many things that I've wished authors would say to aggrieved fans at more than one panel I've attended: http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/05/entitlement-issues.html

What he doesn't say is "if it bugs you so much, don't buy the books until the series is done." That's what I do. Believe it or not there are MANY fine books published today, both genre and non-SF, that are not part of trilogies, quadrilogies, quintilogies, decologies, or otherwise undefined continuing adventures of whatever.

There's very little that will get me to put a new book back on the store shelves faster than reading "First of a new series..." on the cover.

None of which is to say that you, dear readers, should do as I do. It's just that if you do buy Part 1 of N, please don't be That Fan With Entitlement Issues at the next con, kthxbye.

Comments

[deadwinter.livejournal.com]

Nice!

Reminds me if one of my favorite rants: "They are not yours, they are [Whedon's|Abrahams'|Rowling's] characters to do as they see fit"

Ah, maybe

[drwex]

I'm sort of pro-slash. The characters are out there and may end up being used in all sorts of unapproved ways. There's a difference in my mind between a personal creative project and a demand on someone else that THEY engage in a creative project to please the demander.

Re: Ah, maybe

[deadwinter.livejournal.com]

Not what I meant at all, though my patience for slash (and filk) is at best limited.

I mean things like "How dare he kill off so and so!"

Because he wanted too. Also, because he hates you.

Re: Ah, maybe

[drwex]

*SNERK* Oh, yes. That. Float like a feather.

Re: Ah, maybe

[jacflash.livejournal.com]

Mystery writers doing long series with a small recurring ensemble get this all the time: "Mr Parker, I don't think Spenser would really have done X. I think you don't know him as well as you think you do" etc etc blah blah stfu etc.