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megwrites ([personal profile] megwrites) wrote2009-01-08 08:21 am
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Book ethics, now in convenient poll form!

[Poll #1327486]


ETA: Just to clarify, the six book series in question is in the exact same genre as the "debut novel"
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[identity profile] buymeaclue.livejournal.com 2009-01-08 01:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, the copyright page. [livejournal.com profile] tanaise and I have been known to play a game called, "Who's Marion Zimmer Bradley this time?"

[identity profile] fiction-theory.livejournal.com 2009-01-08 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. That's one thing that sorta bugged me about this whole thing, aside from the dishonesty. If the publisher is trying to create a persona for this writer as a brilliant debut author and a new voice or what-the-hell-ever they're trying to do, it's sort of stupid, because anyone who can read the copyright page and navigate their way through Google can find out that it's a big fat lie.