Dear Author: Linnea's Law
Mar. 10th, 2008 03:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neadodsDear Author,
Congratulations! Assuming that the review of yournovel novella longish short story published in very large type ever gets published, you will have the warm glow of knowing that you have inspired me to create a brand new Internet law, and I sincerely hope that "Linnea's Law" will quickly take its place right up there with Godwin's & Sturgeon's.
On the other hand, since you will also have the warm glow of outrage over some of other things I have to say about your should-be-put-to-death prose (I'm still trying to decide between "the only reason I can't call the characters paper thin is that this is an electronic book" and "these characters would need some major fleshing out to achieve two dimensions") you may just hope that it never sees the light of day.
Linnea's Law: When a "professionally" published book is worse than Internet fanfiction. (This goes double for ebooks and triple for ebooks about the Internet.)
Signed
I'm going to spork my eyes out before accepting any other electronic or unknown press book for review. Getting a tiny press to publish it doesn't fix the problems, it only adds killing a tree to your sins.
PS - Before the published-on-paper authors who also write for online media get up in my grill, I don't mean you. Usually. Despite the ample evidence of Sturgeon's Law that the publishing houses churn out annually, when publishers put their money where their editors/printers/advertisers/shippers are, somebody somewhere at least sincerely thought the final product was worth that money and effort. As far as I can tell, epublishing is the new vanity publishing for people who can't afford to chop down a tree.
Congratulations! Assuming that the review of your
On the other hand, since you will also have the warm glow of outrage over some of other things I have to say about your should-be-put-to-death prose (I'm still trying to decide between "the only reason I can't call the characters paper thin is that this is an electronic book" and "these characters would need some major fleshing out to achieve two dimensions") you may just hope that it never sees the light of day.
Linnea's Law: When a "professionally" published book is worse than Internet fanfiction. (This goes double for ebooks and triple for ebooks about the Internet.)
Signed
I'm going to spork my eyes out before accepting any other electronic or unknown press book for review. Getting a tiny press to publish it doesn't fix the problems, it only adds killing a tree to your sins.
PS - Before the published-on-paper authors who also write for online media get up in my grill, I don't mean you. Usually. Despite the ample evidence of Sturgeon's Law that the publishing houses churn out annually, when publishers put their money where their editors/printers/advertisers/shippers are, somebody somewhere at least sincerely thought the final product was worth that money and effort. As far as I can tell, epublishing is the new vanity publishing for people who can't afford to chop down a tree.
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