It’s a bitchfest royale in this week’s news, as two mediocre authors let rip at their critics – Britain’s Alain de Botton (“a writer so grand nowadays that his entire works are written in the royal We” says the Telegraph) and American Alice Hoffman (“not an author whose work I believe can be taken very seriously” says the Literary Saloon). They’ve both gone completely potty this week in their juvenile and hysterical over-reactions to poor reviews.
In other news… the winner of worst writing contest is announced… Amazon cuts off two states to retaliate for new sales tax laws… and the infamous TSA is now detaining writers over the contents of their manuscript – police state, here we come.
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